The Republican-led Hou se on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, a strict immigration detention measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was murdered last year by an ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 29, the Laken Riley Act, today despite strong objections from civil and immigrants’ rights organizations. As the Senate may take up the bill ...

President Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his first piece of legislation during his second presidential term. The law, named after the nursing student killed on the University ...

The Laken Riley Act is named after a nursing student who was murdered last year by a Venezuelan man on UGA's campus.