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

Local officers, however, were not required to inform ICE about his arrest because it was for a low-level offense. That wouldn’t necessarily change under the Laken Riley Act, says Nayna Gupta ...

The Laken Riley Act is aimed at detaining more illegal immigrants, including those accused of theft and burglary.

President Donald Trump codified the bill named after a Georgia woman who was killed by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant in February of 2024.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building stands in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2025. And that estimate from ICE ...

There is no one definition of what a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants is, though Las Vegas has rarely been ...

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

The Laken Riley Act, signed into law by President Donald ... could be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and held without bail. That now includes lesser offenses such as ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, requiring ICE to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes. The law is named after a Georgia nursing student killed by a man who ...

Some fear the Laken Riley Act will create a shoplifting-to-deportation express or cause crowding that results in violent ...