22 hours ago · Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was killed while on a run in February 2024. Riley’s death was catapulted into national view when authorities revealed that the man ...

2 days ago · Written by Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., the Laken Riley Act bears the name of the nursing school student who was murdered last year in Athens, Georgia. A Venezuelan citizen who had entered the United ...

3 days ago · Laken Riley was out for a run in February 2024 when she was killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally. ... State attorneys general could sue the U.S. government for harm caused by federal immigration decisions — potentially allowing the leaders of conservative states to help dictate immigration ...

3 days ago · Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University in Georgia, was jogging one morning in February 2024 when she was attacked and killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old from ...

2 days ago · The Laken Riley Act was signed into law Wednesday, less than one year after the death of the Georgia nursing student it was named after.Prosecutors say a man wh ... State patrol officers were ...

2 days ago · President Trump signed his first piece of legislation into law, the Laken Riley Act. This law mandates the federal detention of illegal immigrants who are accused of theft, burglary, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and any crime that causes death or serious bodily injury.

2 days ago · The law is named for the late Laken Riley, ... clearing the Senate by a wide 65-34-vote including backing from 12 swing-state Democrats ‒ a sign of the liability that border control has become ...

2 days ago · The legislation, known as the Laken Riley Act, is the first to be signed by the president in his new term, and shows how the politics of immigration have shifted. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L ...

Jan 11, 2025 · Forty-eight Democrats joined every Republican in the House to pass a bill that would mandate federal detention if a person in the United States illegally is even accused of certain crimes. The bill...

Jan 8, 2025 · The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed its first bill Tuesday, the Laken Riley Act, named for the 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student killed by a Venezuelan...