As Democrats brace for Donald Trump’s second administration, the explosion of protests and coordinated pushback that greeted his first is all but missing. The mass demonstrations and vows of resistance that helped birth the political rise of Stacey Abrams and Jon Ossoff haven’t materialized.

Bill named for slain Georgia nursing student becomes the first law signed by 47th president, who made immigration his 2024 campaign's central theme.

The Laken Riley Act will require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes. The bill won bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

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.

Federal agents made at least one arrest at a Georgia church, following a policy change by the Trump administration.

The Laken Riley Act, named for the slain nursing school student who was attacked and killed by a Venezuelan citizen who had entered into the U.S. illegally, is the first legislative win of Trump's second term.

President Trump's nominees for top posts in his administration are gearing up for their Senate confirmation hearings, which kicked off earlier this month.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 07, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, making him the only president other than Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.

Little over a week before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a New York judge handed down a non-penalty sentence against the President-elect, and the federal special counsel Jack Smith – having already dropped his two cases against Trump – resigned.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, a bill intended to crack down on illegal immigration, into law on Wednesday. The Laken Riley Act, named after a University of Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal immigrant,

Trump made the announcement right before signing the Laken Riley Act into law. The bipartisan measure means that people who are in the U.S. illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.

The Laken Riley Act was named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed in 2024 while out for a run by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.