President Donald Trump has signed the first law of his second administration: the Laken Riley Act. The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S ...

President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Donald Trump on ...

The announcement comes the same day President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, which requires the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of theft and other violent crimes.

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act—an immigration enforcement law named for a 22-year-old college student who was murdered last February—into law on Wednesday, making it the ...

In his first piece of legislation, President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday. The law requires illegal immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes to be detained and ...

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.

The U.S. Senate passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support — including both of Arizona’s Democratic senators — keeping a crackdown on illegal immigrants involved in criminal cases on ...

Get 24/7 fact-based unbiased news coverage with the NewsNation app. (NewsNation) — The House of Representatives passed the final version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, a piece of legislation ...

The bill – called the Laken Riley Act – will next go to the White House to be signed into law after the Senate approved the measure earlier in the week. The House vote was 263 to 156 with 46 ...

James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., talk to reporters about the Laken Riley Act, a bill to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes, at the Capitol in ...

The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man - passed the House of Representatives a day after it was approved by the Senate. The measure ...