The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans,
Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.
The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man - passed the House of Representatives a day after it was approved by the Senat
The Laken Riley Act is set to be the first bill Trump signs into law after it passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support.
As it did weeks ago, the bill received unanimous support from Arizona's House Republicans. Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., also voted in favor of the measure, as Arizona's Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego did previously.
Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants charged with crimes, to President Trump’s desk.
Jewel is speaking out on her decision to perform at an inauguration day ball honoring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as she says her devotion to solving the country’s mental health crisis defies political party lines.
President Trump revoked a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule for federal contractors, but the action doesn’t repeal existing workplace discrimination laws.
With the ushering in of the second Trump presidency, Americans can expect things to shake up in many different areas. Trump’s promises surrounding immigration, the economy, ending wars, and cutting federal spending are all promises he professed he would keep on the first day of his presidency.
Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted her colleagues — including her own party — who she said brazenly engage in insider trading and undermine trust in government. Ocasio-Cortez joined "The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart" on Thursday to call out her fellow lawmakers on both sides for engaging in the illegal practice.
Health programs were among the subjects of a flurry of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump soon after his inauguration.