The DC area’s illegal immigrant murder problem

When 22-year-old Laken Riley was murdered in broad daylight during one of her daily runs in the college town of Athens, Georgia, it was quickly determined that the main suspect was Jose Ibarra, who had entered the country illegally. Ibarra had been known to the authorities previously, and he had even been apprehended crossing the border, but he was merely released, offered a court date, and got on a bus to New York City.

Riley’s parents and friends are undoubtedly haunted daily by a “what if.”