Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation have spent the first week with President Donald Trump back in office taking ...

The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes ...

Trump has also made immigration the focus of multiple executive orders since taking office on Monday. The bill ...

The bill is named after Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed last year. The legislation would require federal ...

Its passage shows just how sharply the political debate over immigration has shifted to the right following Trump’s election victory.

The Laken Riley Act is the first bill that will come to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature as the 47th President. Passed with ...

Who runs the U.S. immigration system? If the Senate passes the Laken Riley Act this week, the answer might not be Congress or the president. The bill, already passed in the House, would hand state ...

The Senate inched closer Monday to final passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires immigration officials to detain illegal migrants who engage in theft, shoplifting and related crimes ...

Deporting criminals, including shoplifters, is a no brainer. But the Laken Riley Act isn’t that simple. The legislation cruising through Congress does not just expand deportation of non-violent ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (South Dakota), left, with fellow Republican senators James Lankford (Oklahoma) and Ted Budd (North Carolina), meets with journalists about the Laken Riley Act on ...