Migrant accused of killing Laken Riley took free Biden administration flight to Georgia

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Jose Antonio Ibarra, the migrant who allegedly killed nursing student Laken Riley, received a taxpayer-funded hotel stay in New York City and a flight to Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2023, according to a witness in a criminal court trial on Monday.

Rosbeli Flores Bello, a Venezuelan migrant and former roommate of Ibarra, testified at his trial that she stayed at the iconic Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, which had been turned into a temporary migrant intake center.

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