If passed, it would require the Department of Homeland Security to detain immigrants without legal status accused of theft, ...

Republicans and some Democrats want you to believe that the Laken Riley Act is about deporting shoplifters. Don't believe the ...

When the federal government increased its deportation efforts in the mid-1970s, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, then a priest in ...

The bill would force harsher detention policies and could impact visas for lawful, documented individuals applying to work or ...

Landsman, the Democratic congressman from Mt. Washington, begins his second term in the U.S. House led by Republicans.

The bill is named in honor of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student murdered on the University of Georgia campus last year.

The Senate is expected this week to take up the Laken Riley bill, a measure that Republicans have championed as one of their ...

Ten senators voted against further debate on the Laken Riley Act, which would mandate ICE detention of undocumented immigrants charged in some crimes.

Though the Republican-led Laken Riley Act has garnered some bipartisan support, Democratic leaders say that senators should ...

Bipartisan legislation to more easily deport migrants in the country illegally cleared a second procedural vote Monday ...

If passed, the act would mandate the detention of illegal immigrants charged with an array of crimes. The bill is named after ...

Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress ...