The House of Representatives is poised to vote on the Laken Riley Act on Tuesday after it easily passed last year.

The House voted on Tuesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, ...

The bill, named for a nursing school student who was murdered by a man in the country illegally, passed the House last year.

Unlawful crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped sharply last year. Now, Mexico and countries in Central America are ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. House was voting Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, sponsored by Georgia Rep. Mike Collins and named for the ...

Pope Francis on Monday appointed a new cardinal with a liberal track record to head the archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

The House will vote at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act as its first piece of legislation of the 119th Congress.

The House approved its first policy legislation of the new Congress on Tuesday with a bill aimed at addressing illegal ...

The passage of the Laken Riley Act allows immigration officials to detain non-U.S. citizens accused of certain crimes ...

House Republicans focused their attention on the border with their first bill of the year, passing legislation — named after ...

More than a decade ago, a Democrat floated the idea as part of a rebuke of anti-immigrant legislation proposed in Mississippi.