Funding for increased detention is not included in the Laken Riley Act. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that to ...

Even with the Laken Riley Act in place, the Georgia police officers who arrested Ibarra for shoplifting would not have been required to report him to ICE. The onus of immigration enforcement ...

ATLANTA — It has been one year since nursing student Laken Riley was murdered at the University of Georgia. Her death made ...

The act disproportionately targets immigrants, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and increasing fear of deportation.

An Indiana prosecutor used the Laken Riley Act for the first time to deport an undocumented immigrant, according to FOX59.

On Feb. 22, 2024, the University of Georgia community was rocked by the first murder on campus in decades. In the 365 days ...

Immigration became one of the cornerstones of Donald Trump ’s ultimately successful quest to reclaim the White House. The subsequent Laken Riley Act was the first law passed out of the new Congress ...

The law mandates that anyone living in the U.S. illegally accused of low-level misdemeanors or more violent crimes can be detained and potentially deported without a trial or conviction. The law ...

Riley, 22, a Georgia nursing student ... on hand for the moving signing ceremony at the White House. Had the Laken Riley Act been in effect, Ibarra, who is serving a life sentence, would have ...

President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration – the Laken Riley Act, named for an AU nursing student ...

Laken Riley’s murder one year ago became a galvanizing force behind Donald Trump’s unprecedented return to the Oval Office.