The Alabama Senator's crackdown on illegal immigrants charged with certain crimes has gained some bipartisan support in ...

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he is “a no” on the Laken Riley Act “as currently written.” “As currently ...

The bill's swift progress signals that some Democrats are taking a more hawkish turn on one of the defining issues of the ...

The groundswell of support among Democrats for the Laken Riley Act raises questions whether the party is having a one-off ...

Anti-immigrant state officials and federal judges would have new power to dictate immigration enforcement– including whether ...

Immigration policy will take center stage when Congress returns to the Capitol this week after most Senate Democrats voted Thursday to begin debate on a bill that would require the deportation of ...

Democratic Arizona Senate leaders are rejecting the bipartisan Laken Riley Act, a tough immigration bill in Congress.

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) speaks to CNN’s Jake Tapper about aims for the Laken Riley Act granting new power to dictate immigration enforcement — including whether to detain individual migrants.

Implementing the Laken Riley Act, which requires holding undocumented immigrants suspected of minor offenses, would cost more ...

Critics say the bill undermines the right to due process and risks prolonged detention of innocent people, while diverting ...

Nearly every member of the all-Democrat Massachusetts congressional delegation voted against a bill named after slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require the detention of migrants arrested ...

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday to require federal immigration authorities to detain ...