Dan Gooding is a Newsweek reporter based in New York City. His focus is reporting on immigration and border security. He has covered immigration issues extensively, including the root causes of ...

The Laken Riley Act would require ICE to detain immigrants without legal permission who commit theft-related crimes. The bill, named after a Georgia nursing student killed by an immigrant without ...

The House of Representatives passed on Tuesday the Laken Riley Act, a bill named for a 22-year-old college student murdered by an undocumented immigrant last year. The bill, which passed the House ...

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., who led the Senate introduction of the Laken Riley Act alongside Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., hit former President Bill Clinton for failing to acknowledge during ...

The bill would require Immigration and Customs ... she led by example," said Allyson and John Phillips, Laken Riley’s mother and stepfather, in a statement. "The Laken Riley Act has our full ...

If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes. The bill won bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

The bill was introduced last year as a messaging ... What does any of this have to do with the wrenching loss of Laken Riley, or really any problem in our dysfunctional immigration system?

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)(Alex Brandon / AP) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a bill named for murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. The new law gives ...

The Laken Riley Act is on its way to President Donald Trump's desk as the first bill he will sign into law. Here's what this strict immigration measure means for the undocumented. The immigration ...

Unauthorized immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes could be be deported. The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the ...

Former President Bill Clinton‘s attempt to pin the blame on former President Donald Trump for the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley backfired after his comments were used as a ...

Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Thursday helped Republicans advance an immigration bill named after murdered nursing student Laken Riley, but some experts are questioning whether they really know ...