The Laken Riley Act, as the law is known, directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes, if they are in the country illegally.

Washington — The House approved the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, signing off on the Senate's changes to the legislation aimed at expanding the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants ...

After a recent review of immigrants in their nondetained docket, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations found about 110,000 people with offenses referenced in the act, the document said.

The Laken Riley Act, named in memory of a nursing student killed in February by an undocumented immigrant in Georgia, would allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to detain ...

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introduced the Laken Riley Act to “give local law enforcement and ... failure to detain immigrants subject to a removal order; failure to comply with requirements for inspecting individuals ...

The Laken Riley Act, an immigration enforcement bill, passed the Senate with a 64-35 vote and is returning to the House for approval of the amended version. The bill received bipartisan support ...

The vote for final passage of the Laken Riley Act was 64-35, with 12 Democrats joining Republicans to approve it. The bill, which was amended in the Senate last week, will be sent back for another ...

The Senate on Monday passed the Laken Riley Act, making the immigration-related bill the first piece of legislation to make it through the upper chamber in the new Congress and putting it a step ...

The legislation, known as the Laken Riley Act and named for a 22-year-old woman who was murdered last year while jogging at the University of Georgia, would allow for stricter punishments of ...

An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata ...

Come what may, we will fight for justice," the woman's father told AFP news agency. Indian law prohibits revealing the identity of victims of sexual violence and that of their family members.