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

President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration – the Laken Riley Act, named for an AU nursing student who was slain on the University of Georgia campus.

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 ...

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

Laken Riley was found dead on February 22, 2024, in a wooded area near UGA’s intramural fields. Investigators said she had ...

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

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation.

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 ...

Laken Riley was found dead on February 22 ... Later that day, UGA Police Chief Jeff Clark identified the suspect in the case, Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, charging him with malice murder, felony ...

The legislation is named for Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who went out for a run in February 2024 and was killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national in the U.S ...

The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes ...