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 ...

The law puts the onus of immigration enforcement on federal authorities, requiring ICE to prioritize arrests for low-level offenses. ICE has expressed concerns about capacity limitations and ...

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

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

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law last month ... a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered a ...

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.

The Laken Riley Act is written by Republican Representative Mike Collins of Georgia. It requires US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain illegal immigrants in the US if they've been ...

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 ...

Jason Riley will always deal with the memory of a horrible day in 2024 that claimed the life of his daughter in Athens.

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 ...