Critics accuse Trump of xenophobia, but that ignores the legitimate concerns about how illegal immigration strains public ...

In New Jersey, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a fish market in Newark last Friday, the full extent of ...

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose name became a rallying cry during his White House ...

The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally when they're accused of ...

The measure quickly passed the new Republican-controlled Congress with some Democratic support even though immigrants rights ...

After a series of Trump executive orders to strengthen the border, Republican congressmen are gearing up to codify them into ...

Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants ...

The Laken Riley Act, as the bill is known, directs the authorities to deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate on Monday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, the ...

As a testament to its political salience, the newly GOP-led Congress last week moved forward as its top priority the Laken Riley Act ... relations from Michigan State University.

The Senate voted Friday to end debate on a bill named for murdered jogger Laken ... Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, in Athens, Ga. in February 2024, two months after he had appeared in a ...