Many immigration attorneys and advocates have argued the passage of the bill will help fuel Trump’s promise of mass deportations, because it would require mandatory detention of immigrants without the ...

The legislation expands the circumstances under which undocumented immigrants face mandatory detention. Under current law, immigration judges already have broad authority to detain people whether ...

Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, said his bill would allow state, county, and city police to detain someone arrested for a crime ...

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 ...

In immigrants’ cases, mandatory immigration detention can actually impede their prosecution by making it logistically harder for them to show up for proceedings in their criminal cases.

The governor called the measures the “strongest legislation to combat illegal immigration of any state in the entire country.

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) introduced the Laken Riley Act to “give local law enforcement and ICE more tools to fight illegal immigrants who commit crime in the United States.” It was named ...

Measures include the creation of an immigration enforcement board and stiffer penalties for undocumented people who commit ...