The BriefPresident Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his first piece of legislation.The act is named after Georgia ...

The law has been used to order the release of people like Maria Tumba Huamani, an asylum-seeker from Peru who was detained by ICE at immigration court and held for a month. The Trump administration ...

The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday — a strict border measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student whose murder last year by an immigrant in ...

The Republican-led Hou se on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered last year by an ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House in ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an immigration detention measure into law, marking his first legislative win days after he took office as the Republican-led Congress angles to execute his ...