John Cornyn, in a call from Washington with Texas ... The legislation is named for the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was killed by a Venezuelan immigrant, who entered the U.S. illegally ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, a measure to enact stricter penalties on undocumented immigrants who commit ...

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz is reintroducing a constitutional amendment to cap the number of justices on the Supreme Court at ...

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.

Obviously it’s not going to happen. I don’t know under what circumstance it would make sense even,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., ...

Fourth-quarter fundraising reports filed with the FEC show many vulnerable lawmakers starting the cycle with modest war ...

Dallas says a review of city programs, and existing and planned projects supported by federal grants, is underway.

John Cornyn (R-TX), who passed an amendment to the ... The Laken Riley Act is named after Laken Riley, a nursing school student in Georgia who was murdered by a man who entered the country illegally.

Trump signed the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, the first piece of legislation the president has signed since his inauguration.

Related Georgia nursing student Laken Riley's alleged ... detention of migrants who enter the country illegally. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, successfully introduced an amendment requiring the ...

John Cornyn (R-Texas) that would require Immigration ... Twenty Democrats voted with every Republican who was present. Riley, the Georgia college student for whom the legislation is named, was ...