The Laken Riley Act requires immigration officers to detain undocumented immigrants who are suspected, arrested, charged, or ...

The federal Laken Riley Act expands the scope of crimes that could place a person living in the U.S. without legal status in ...

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The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally when they're accused of ...

Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday as the president approves a series of initiatives meant to tackle his ...

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The Laken Riley Act aims to expand the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally.

Migrants who commit theft and other crimes are subject to deportation after President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act ...

The new Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants charged, but not convicted, with assaulting law enforcement. But it goes dangerously farther by including lesser ...

The Laken Riley Act, as the law is known, directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes, if they are in the country illegally.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law. It's the first bill Trump signed in his second term as president.