Laken Riley, 22, a nursing student at Augusta University in Athens, Georgia, died today from blunt force trauma to the head.
Her family and friends tell the world what kind of person Laken was: her joy in life, her desire to help others, her strong Christian faith, her love of Jesus, and her loving spirit. It will be memorable. (Related: Rep. Burgess Owens: Biden administration's border chaos eerily reminiscent of radical strategies from decades ago)
Her alleged killer was José Antonio Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who would never have come to our country to commit crimes if it weren't for Joe Biden's open borders policy. is.
This open-border policy is the result of a careful choice that weighs costs, benefits, and other options. And that choice has consequences.
Mr. Ybarra entered the country because the Biden administration made a deliberate decision to allow him to enter the country. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Ybarra was detained by the Border Patrol on September 8, 2022, after illegally entering the country near El Paso, Texas.
It is unclear whether he has applied for asylum.
Whether he did so or not, he entered the country illegally. He should have been detained and deported. But the Biden administration, acting through Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and his subordinates, is implementing the policy agreed upon by Mr. Biden and Mr. Mayorkas at the start of the Biden administration three years ago and allowing Mr. Ybarra to remain in the country. I chose that.
He was paroled and released.
It was an abuse of the president's parole power.under 8 USC § 1182(d)(5)(A)“The Attorney General may, in his discretion, temporarily provide for aliens applying for admission to the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons or in the important public interest, under conditions that may be prescribed only on a case-by-case basis. You can enter the United States on a provisional basis.''
Did Ybarra “apply for admission to the United States”? Was Ibarra paroled to the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons?
Was his parole to the United States considered an important public interest?Or was he paroled? Over 1 million other peopleIs it simply because the Biden administration wanted to allow him into the country but found what appears to be a clever loophole?
In any case, Ibarra took advantage of the generosity and traveled to New York, where he was on August 31, 2023. I got caught Driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle with a 5-year-old child in it. He was charged with recklessly endangering a child, acting in a manner endangering a child, and violating the Motor Vehicle Traffic Act.
He was briefly imprisoned but later released.
He traveled to Georgia, where he and his younger brother Diego Ibarra, according to court records. arrested He was accused of stealing $200 worth of merchandise from Walmart in Athens. He likely skipped the court appearance because he had a warrant out for his arrest as of last week.
Riley, a nursing student, went for a run Thursday morning along a wooded trail near the University of Georgia's intramural fields. When she did not return, her roommate called authorities. Her body was discovered shortly thereafter.
The next day, Ybarra was charged with malicious murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, interfering with a 911 call, and concealing the death of another.
Local District Attorney — Deborah Gonzalez elected In 2020, he advocated for an extremely liberal cashless bail/abandonment of the death penalty system, but was criticized as an incompetent prosecutor.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, an Athens native, warned her Monday. After her remarks at the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce that day, she was asked if the District Attorney's Office was “confident in its ability to prosecute this case and this suspect.” Justice,” Kemp said flatly.Well she best do it”
Later the same day, Gonzalez declared that he did not intend to lead the prosecution and would instead lead the prosecution. overturn those obligations Among the new special prosecutors she will appoint is Sheila Ross, who currently works for the Prosecuting Attorneys Council.
Open border policy enacted when Biden took office as president Instructions by presidential order Within days of taking office, he created chaos not only on the southern border itself, but in every state of the Union.
even by the federal government itself numbers, Millions of illegal aliens were “encountered” at the southern border as a result of Biden's open borders policy. Not surprisingly, this led to a significant increase in crimes committed by illegal aliens.
When you check the data, arrest The numbers of convicted non-national criminals collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection are beginning to tell a story. In 2019, there were only 4,219 people and in 2020, 2,438 people, but the number has rapidly increased to 10,763 in 2021 and 12,028 in 2020. 15,267 people in 2022 and 15,267 people in 2023.
Monthly “encounters” (you and I would probably call them “arrests”; however, “arrest” means that the person arrested is taken into custody, and aliens that are “encountered” are simply released into space. (inland) on the southwest border) spiked Considering that the number of people in the country increased from 78,414 in January 2021 to 301,983 in December 2023, it is no wonder that crimes committed by illegal immigrants have similarly skyrocketed.
What will it take to make Biden understand what his lawless policies have done to our country? How many more people will have to die at the hands of the violent criminals he allowed to invade our country?
Justice is needed for the murder of Laken Riley. Joe “Sir. Open Borders” Biden can't make that happen, because he's the primary author of the policies that may have made her murder possible. He must sign HR 2, the Border Security Act, as part of the upcoming spending deal.
And it will be up to us, the voters, to change policy by voting in a big way for Mr. Biden to step down in November.
Jenny Beth Martin is Chair Emeritus of Tea Party Patriots Action.
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