The Senate on Monday night advanced the Laken Riley Act in a bipartisan 82-10 vote, which will allow debate on the pending legislation to begin in the upper chamber. The House passed the bill last ...

Bipartisan legislation to more easily deport migrants in the country illegally cleared a second procedural vote Monday evening as Democrats searched for a path forward on proposing amendments.

The Laken Riley Act on Monday cleared a second procedural hurdle in the Senate as talk turns to an amendment push by Democrats in order to potentially make alterations to the bill. Senators voted ...

The Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly advanced in an 82-10 vote that brought the bill one step closer to final passage after passing a test vote in the upper chamber last week. It would require ...

The Senate is expected this week to take up the Laken Riley bill, a measure that Republicans have championed as one of their first actions to address what they have deemed as necessary changes to ...

The U.S. Senate is readying to vote this week on a bill that could dramatically increase detentions of people living in the country illegally, while also giving state attorneys general like Ken ...

Sources at the DHS, under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, are reportedly citing the exorbitant cost of enforcing the Laken Riley Act under consideration, according to reporter Pablo Manriquez in a ...

BOSTON — Nearly every member of the all-Democrat Massachusetts congressional delegation voted against a bill named after slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require the detention of ...

A spokesman for Murray said the senator will work to improve the Laken Riley Act through the amendment process this week, but she opposes the bill in its current form “because she believes our ...

However, the Laken Riley Act does not include funding provisions to cover its expanded detention requirements. The report also highlights potential risks if emergency funding is not secured.

The new Congress is acting fast to pass what's called the Laken Riley Act. Forty-eight Democrats joined every Republican in the House to pass a bill that would mandate federal detention if a ...