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Trial starts with graphic testimony on Laken Riley murder
A Venezuelan man “went hunting for females on the University of Georgia’s campus” earlier this year and ended up murdering Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley after a struggle ...
Opinion
Trump’s Laken Riley Act is misuse of tragedy intended only to persecute immigrants | Opinion
The new Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants charged, but not convicted, with assaulting law enforcement. But it goes dangerously farther by including lesser ...
Reason18d
The Laken Riley Act Reminds Us: If a Law Is Named After Someone, It's Probably Bad
The Laken Riley Act, which moved closer to passing the Senate on Friday, is no exception. Drafted in response to the death of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by an ...
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What is the Laken Riley Act? A look at the first bill Trump will sign
If signed into law, the Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized ... Ibarra waived his right to a jury ...
Laken Riley Act: What the strict deportation measure means for undocumented immigrants
The Laken Riley Act requires immigration officers to detain undocumented immigrants who are suspected, arrested, charged, or who admit to committing certain crimes. These crimes include burglary, ...
Laken Riley Act: Dems Push Immigration Bill That 'Doesn't Actually Exist'
David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, on X: "The Laken Riley Act pretends to be about stopping ...
New Republic22d
The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
Nothing about the Laken Riley Act, the anti-immigration law that passed the House last week and is now being taken up in the Senate, would have prevented the murder of the young Georgia nursing ...
USA Today27d
House passes Laken Riley Act, which heads to Senate with increasing Democratic support
Laken Riley’s murder became a rallying cry for Republicans during the 2024 presidential campaign, and President-elect Donald Trump brought up the case repeatedly as he called for better border ...
Yahoo27d
'A clear message': Here's the immigration bill in response to murder of Laken Riley
A congressional bill inspired by the murder of an Augusta University nursing student studying at an Athens satellite campus heads to the Senate on Friday. The Laken Riley Act, House Resolution 29 ...
The Washington Post25d
What does the Laken Riley Act have to do with Laken Riley? Almost nothing.
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 ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution29d
Bill named after Laken Riley is first to be passed in U.S. House this year
The Laken Riley Act would allow law enforcement ... Jose Antonio Ibarra, the man charged with murder and accused of killing Riley, is a Venezuelan who authorities say entered the U.S. illegally ...
New York Post22d
Senate closer to adopting Laken Riley Act, cracking down on illegal immigrants for theft, shoplifting
The Senate inched closer Monday to final passage of the Laken Riley Act ... was convicted of Riley’s murder and sentenced to life in prison in November. Ibarra had past run-ins with the law ...