SAY HER NAME: THE LAKEN RILEY CASE AND PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS. When President Joe Biden arrived in the House chamber to give the State of the Union address last March, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) handed him a button with Laken Riley‘s name on it. Riley was the 22-year-old nursing student who had been murdered by an illegal border crosser in Athens, Georgia, a month earlier. In the subsequent investigation, it was revealed that Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan gang member accused of killing Riley, had not only entered the country illegally but had been allowed to stay and provided all sorts of hospitality by the Biden administration. Even after he committed crimes in the United States, Ibarra was put up in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York and then given a free plane ticket to Georgia, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers. Once in Georgia, he hunted down and attacked Riley, strangling her and bashing her skull with a rock.
The murder was a direct result of Biden’s border policy. Under the president’s administration, U.S. border officials did nothing to turn Ibarra away and instead bent over backward to accommodate him and millions of other unvetted illegal border crossers.
