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

A prosecutor in Indiana used the Laken Riley Act to deport an undocumented immigrant in response to a deadly car accident.

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 ...

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

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.

The Laken Riley Act was used for the first time to deport Domingo Juan Juan, a Guatemalan citizen in the U.S. illegally, ...

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 ...

It will be the first time the law has been used.

The act disproportionately targets immigrants, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and increasing fear of deportation.

The bill would allow the Trump administration to cut off funding to places that have "sanctuary" laws in place. Groups like ...

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 ...