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

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

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

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 ...

ATLANTA — It has been one year since nursing student Laken Riley was murdered at the University of Georgia. Her death made ...

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 ...

On Feb. 22, 2024, the University of Georgia community was rocked by the first murder on campus in decades. In the 365 days ...

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.