The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to give final passage to the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered ...
The Laken Riley Act was passed on a 264-159 vote, with 48 House Democrats joining the Republican majority. The bill will now ...
The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.
The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the 119th Congress on a vote of 264 to 159. Forty-eight Democrats voted in favor of the ...
The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, sending the immigration-related bill to President Trump’s desk in what is poised to be his first legislative victory since returning to the White ...
The legislation will require federal agents to detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft and other related crimes until they are deported.
Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.
The House of Representatives voted to pass the Laken Riley Act in a 263 to 156 vote on Wednesday. Among other things, the bill would direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to detain ...
The House of Representatives passed a Senate-revised version of the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, sending the first piece of significant legislation to President Trump’s desk for his expected ...
The bill would allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes.
It is highly significant that the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump was the Laken Riley Act.