Other potential highlights include: No. 3 Beau Bartlett vs. No. 6 Brock Hardy at 141, No. 2 Shayne Van Ness vs. No. 4 Ridge Lovett at 149, No. 3 Tyler Kasak vs. No. 5 Antrell Taylor at 157 ...

But Democratic efforts to amend the measure were not entertained by Republicans. The Laken Riley Act, named in memory of a nursing student killed in February by an undocumented immigrant ...

Washington — The Senate on Monday approved a bill known as the Laken Riley Act aimed at expanding the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) navigated the Laken Riley Act through his chamber’s cumbersome voting procedures. Getty Images Immigration officials have said Ibarra illegally crossed ...

The Senate on Monday passed the Laken Riley Act, making the immigration-related bill the first piece of legislation to make it through the upper chamber in the new Congress and putting it a step ...

This week, the Senate took up debate on the Laken Riley Act, which would expand mandatory immigration detention, after it was passed by the House. Current law already grants officials sweeping ...

Freshman GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno ripped the Biden administration’s immigration policy in his first hearing in the Senate as President-elect Trump’s DHS secretary nominee Kristi Noem sat in ...

Congress appears likely to pass the Laken Riley Act this month. The legislation is branded as targeting noncitizen criminals like the man who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley last year.

Send an email to Virginia. An amended version of the Laken Riley Act passed through the Senate Monday night with bipartisan support in a vote of 64 to 35. “We are a proud nation of immigrants.

A bipartisan bill to crack down on illegal immigration narrowly overcame its second and final 60-vote filibuster in the Senate on Friday, all but ensuring its eventual passage in Congress.

The Laken Riley Act, an immigration enforcement bill, passed the Senate with a 64-35 vote and is returning to the House for approval of the amended version. The bill received bipartisan support ...

James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., talk to reporters about the Laken Riley Act, a bill to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes, at the Capitol in ...