Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...
The bill, which has divided Democrats, would require law enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit primarily theft-related ...
The Laken Riley Act, as the bill is known, directs the authorities to deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — ...
The act is named after Laken Riley, the student who was killed at the University of Georgia by Jose Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
The Iowans’ push stems from the 2016 death of Sarah Root, a Council Bluffs resident who was killed by an undocumented ...