Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday as the president approves a series of initiatives meant to tackle his ...

Immigration lawyers in our area say their phones are ringing off the hook. People are dealing with anxiety about their ...

President Trump signed executive orders that will fundamentally change how the nation handles immigration, beefing up ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders designed to bolster his long-promised crackdown on illegal immigration. “As commander in-chief ...

During Wednesday's bill signing, President Trump also said he planned to sign an Executive Order to send the worst of undocumented immigrants to a 30,000 bed facility in Guantanamo Bay.

The new Republican-controlled Congress passed the legislation last week with some breakaway Democratic support, a sign of how the politics of immigration have moved to the right. Mr. Trump has ...

The Laken Riley Act, which passed Congress last week with significant Democratic support, requires federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants charged with minor crimes such as burglary ...

President Donald Trump signs the Laken Riley Act during an event ... The new law gives federal immigration agencies broad authority to detain migrants accused of a variety of crimes.