President Joe Biden addressed his reference to an “illegal” murder suspect during his State of the Union speech.
Biden admitted he should have used the term “undocumented” instead during an interview with MSNBC that aired Saturday. The president was in the middle of his annual address Thursday when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) interrupted and shouted out Laken Riley’s name, the college student in Georgia who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant. In response, the president went off script and responded, “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.”
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