The legislation will require federal agents to detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft and other related crimes until they are deported.
The bill would allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes.
Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.
The House passed an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday on a vote of 263-156, teeing up major immigration reform at the start of President Donald Trump's second administration.
Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented ...
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered ...
The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, sending the immigration-related bill to President Trump’s desk in what is poised to be his first legislative victory since returning to the ...
It is highly significant that the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump was the Laken Riley Act.
Some Democrats went along with the MAGA movement to pass a bill some of their own colleagues and constituents said will ...
The Laken Riley Act, written by Rep ... An earlier version of the bill passed the House by a vote of 264-159, with 48 Democrats supporting it. Last year, the GOP-controlled House passed the ...