Britt intends to reintroduce the legislation Thursday after Senate Democrats blocked the measure in September.

District 6 representative was only Maryland Democrat to approve measure for immigrant detention headed for Trump's signature.

The bill requires illegal immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.

Almost one year after Laken Riley’s murder in Athens, the bill bearing her name passed its final Congressional vote Wednesday and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) slammed the Laken Riley Act in a speech on the House floor on Wednesday, pointing out that some House members may have financial incentives to vote for the ...

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the ...

An internal NYPD memo by Commissioner Jessica Tisch sent last week reminds officers to not assist federal authorities in immigration enforcement in the five boroughs.

When the federal government increased its deportation efforts in the mid-1970s, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, then a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, recalls the harm it caused by forcing many ...

The United States House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, Jan. 22, requiring local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants in the ...

Human rights advocates warn the bill could undermine civil liberties, promote fearmongering, and deepen the existing racial divide in the US.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is openly vowing to make money off vaccine lawsuits if confirmed as the next HHS secretary.

Its passage shows just how sharply the political debate over immigration has shifted to the right following Trump’s election victory.