Funding for increased detention is not included in the Laken Riley Act. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that to ...

Jason Riley will always deal with the memory of a horrible day in 2024 that claimed the life of his daughter in Athens.

Laken Riley was found dead on February 22, 2024, in a wooded area near UGA’s intramural fields. Investigators said she had ...

The Laken Riley Act is aimed at detaining more illegal immigrants, including those accused of theft and burglary.

The impact of the slaying of nursing student Laken Riley in February 2024 in Athens was immense.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which requires ICE to detain immigrants illegally in the U.S. who are arrested for certain crimes, even without a conviction. The act, named after a ...

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

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, requiring ICE to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes. The law is named after a Georgia nursing student killed by a man who was ...

Jose Ibarra, who previously had been arrested but never detained by ICE, received a life prison sentence for killing 22-year-old Laken Riley. Riley's mother, Allyson Phillips, expressed her ...

The first law signed by President Donald Trump in his second term expands the type of crimes for which noncitizens can be ...

A Jackson County undocumented immigrant, charged in a deadly March 2024 accident just outside Seymour, is now in federal custody.