The Department of Homeland Security is allowing certain law enforcement components from the Department of Justice to carry out the "functions" of an immigration officer.

Trump made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign. The passage of the Laken Riley Act is the first step in his plan.

The Laken Riley Act, named after a student who was murdered on the University of Georgia campus, would require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes.

District 6 representative was only Maryland Democrat to approve measure for immigrant detention headed for Trump's signature.

The United States House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, Jan. 22, requiring local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants in the ...

As Congress worked to pass the Laken Riley Act, strengthening immigration enforcement powers in the name of a murdered University of Georgia student, much remained unknown about how the law would work ...

President Donald Trump’s inauguration-day executive orders and promises of mass deportations of “millions and millions” of ...

During the first full week of the 119th Congress, U.S. Rep. Dave Taylor, R-Ohio, took his first legislative vote in support ...

The president is likely to sign the Laken Riley Act as an addition to a raft of anti-immigrant executive orders he has ...

The House is heading towards a final vote on a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and ...

The Laken Riley Act is poised to be the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump since the GOP regained control ...

As President Donald Trump cracks down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally, some families are wondering if it is safe to send ...