President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law last month. Here’s what this new immigration measure means for undocumented immigrants who are suspected or accused of a crime.

After the murder of Laken Riley last year by a Venezuelan migrant, Georgia enacted a law meant to crack down on illegal immigration. But a lack of funding is dampening its effect. Support NPR and ...

Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba ...

The Laken Riley case became a symbol of the illegal ... John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico. Along with Ossoff and Peters, seven other Democratic senators from states ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, requiring ICE to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes. The law is named after a Georgia nursing student killed by a man who ...

a Laken Riley Act opponent who helped craft last year’s ill-fated bipartisan border bill. “I won’t speak for my colleagues,” added Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), one of six other Latinos in ...

Washington — President Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act, which aims to expand the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally, marking the ...

President Donald Trump unveiled plans to establish a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, aiming to hold up to 30,000 ...

Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens ...

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