The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly cleared a key procedural hurdle toward passing the Laken Riley Act, a bill aimed at ...

The Senate will vote to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act, a GOP-led bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration ...

The measure easily cleared the 60-vote filibuster but marked the first of likely several procedural hurdles before ...

The Laken Riley Act would require federal officials to detain undocumented immigrants accused of nonviolent crimes ...

More Senate Democrats have indicated they plan to vote to advance the Laken Riley Act in a procedural vote this Friday. The ...

The bill, which would require federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes, was ...

While attending nursing school at the University of Georgia, Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant.

More Senate Democrats have indicated they plan to vote to advance the Laken Riley Act in a procedural vote this Friday. The ...

The Senate appears poised to advance a bill that would expand the federal government's mandate to detain immigrants who are ...

The votes aren’t yet there to clear the Senate's filibuster, but several Democrats say they’ll support the House-passed bill or expressed openness to it.

Thursday's vote to advance the Laken Riley Act does not guarantee the immigration bill will have enough votes to pass the Senate.