The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to give final passage to the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure ...

The Laken Riley Act was passed on a 264-159 vote, with 48 House Democrats joining the Republican majority. The bill will now ...

The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the 119th Congress on a vote of 264 to 159. Forty-eight Democrats voted in favor of the ...

The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.

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 White ...

The legislation will require federal agents to detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft and other related crimes until they are deported.

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 of Representatives passed a Senate-revised version of the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, sending the first piece of significant legislation to President Trump’s desk for his expected ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCIV) — The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to pass the Laken Riley Act, named after a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was murdered in 2024 by an immigrant in the ...

It is highly significant that the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump was the Laken Riley Act.

The new law will require the Department of Homeland Security to detain immigrants without legal status accused of theft, burglary, and other crimes.