Americans Don’t Know About Laken Riley’s Murder
Laken Riley would be alive today if Biden cared at all about enforcing America’s immigration laws.
This column was published by American Greatness
https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/26/americans-dont-know-about-laken-rileys-murder/
How do we stop tragedies like the murder of Laken Riley if Americans do not even know the details of her horrific yet completely preventable homicide?
Thankfully, highly politically engaged citizens know well the details of Laken’s vicious murder on the University of Georgia campus one month ago. In broad daylight, the 22-year-old nursing student was out jogging when she was brutally slain in an unprovoked attack. Jose Antonio Ibarra has been charged with her murder.
A Venezuelan, Ibarra trespassed into America in September of 2022. He was arrested but allowed to remain in the United States under the lax border policies of Joe Biden. After breaking and entering into our homeland, he was subsequently arrested in New York City for endangering a child and also apprehended for shoplifting in Athens, Georgia.
Such additional crimes after entering America illegally clearly justify immediate expulsion, but Ibarra was never remanded to ICE for deportation from the United States. Both of those cities claim status as so-called “sanctuary cities,” which do not cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement agencies.
Reacting to this shocking crime against his innocent young daughter, Laken’s father, Jason Riley, stated: “I stand before you, a heartbroken man… God gave me a beautiful daughter to father, protect, provide for, and nurture. A man with an evil heart stole her life. He was in this country and in this state illegally.” Mr. Riley also begged political leaders to “protect citizens from this illegal invasion.”
Of course, our citizens cannot demand action to stop these senseless and preventable acts of violence if they are unaware of the crimes in the first place. Given the appalling nature of this ghastly crime and its direct connection to politics and border policy, one might expect widespread awareness of Laken’s tragedy.
But battleground state polling reveals a starkly different reality. While Laken’s story has been widely disseminated and understood on the political right, the broad public still knows little about this crime. This omission is, of course, very much by design.
Specifically, in the key swing state of Arizona, only 22% of likely voters report that they know “a great deal” about Laken’s tragic death. This poll was conducted for my populist laborers’ organization, the League of American Workers, by North Star Opinion Research using a 600 person survey that split evenly between Trump and Biden 2020 voters in Arizona.
The details of the poll on Laken’s homicide provide additional troubling insights. For example, only 13% of self-identified Democrats know “a great deal” about her death, and only 15% of Independents, vs. 36% of Republicans. This split points to an increasingly siloed news media. Many Americans only consume partisan news that fits a preconceived worldview.
But the media platforms themselves deserve considerable blame as well. This tragedy simply did not fit the narratives of the legacy corporate media platforms. Specifically, a young white woman killed by a dangerous illegal immigrant—that story received nothing more than perfunctory reporting from biased outlets that long ago shed any inkling of journalistic objectivity.
As a consequence, most independents and Democrats do not even know about this tragic tale of a totally preventable crime. For example, only 9% of undecided 2024 voters know a “great deal” about the case, while a whopping 42% know “nothing at all” about Laken’s murder.
So, those of us working to advance the America First agenda of populist nationalism must inform these voters about the reality of Biden’s open border. Thinking citizens, including independents and reasonable Democrats, will clearly recognize the intense dangers created by border lawlessness. This harsh reality must be consistently and persuasively conveyed to voters: Laken Riley would be alive today if Biden cared at all about enforcing America’s immigration laws.
Such persuasion efforts, by the way, do not exploit Laken’s death. In fact, we honor her memory by doing everything possible to prevent more such tragedies.
In addition, such arguments for street safety and border enforcement rest on solid political foundations, as Americans generally turn against Biden’s porous border. In this same battleground Arizona poll, only 6% of citizens rate the federal government’s job performance on the border as “very strong” vs. a majority of 52% who rate border management as “very weak.”
That disapproval crosses demographic boundaries as well. For instance, among the key Hispanic demographic of Arizona, only 36% of Latinos rate the government’s border job performance as “very” or “somewhat” strong. Contrary to media myth, Hispanic citizens of America are not soft on border issues.
Once properly informed of the true risks of uncontrolled immigration, all Americans will coalesce around the necessity of law-and-order at the border and on our country’s streets. This security agenda cuts across ethnic, racial, and partisan divides. Let’s honor Laken Riley and her family by making certain that killers like Jose Antonio Ibarra can never roam the streets of America again.
Steve Cortes is former senior advisor to President Trump, former commentator for Fox News and CNN, and president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group.
Several years ago I became abruptly aware of the reality that DWI illegal aliens kill people with abandon. A friend’s husband was struck by the drunk driver as he was walking home around 10pm.
The dark, raw truth is that we are under 5th column attack by a totally dismissive regime that is tone deaf to We the People, forcing their will to ‘fundamentally change America’ in ways that would never have been possible without wholesale deception and a reprehensibly stolen election. Our ‘real’ President Trump is the only man with the grit to lead this nation out of the spiraling sedition in downward progress right now. If it were not such blatantly doctrinaire Marxism with the General Mao (spicy chicken) flavor, the babbling heads on MSCCP and Communist News Network might be forgiven for an occasional ’shitface’ every now and then. For them, the occasional innocent, vulnerable young lady is a worthy ritual sacrifice for this ideological/religious cause. And of course they would love nothing more than to become the first ‘full term’ abortion martyr for their cause — you first, though, deserve the honor. BTW — Don’t you just love their ‘testimonies’ about all that Jesus means in their analysis of what could be nothing more than a cult when DJT and his hapless MAGA Posse appeal to all that is good in ‘Right and Wrong?’ Is that really Jake Tapper “wishing in his soul that any of ‘these people’ had a conscience?” Surely that’s a wicked AI impersonation of that nice man who would surely take the place of the innocent young girl being prepared for the next sacrifice to the gods of the vicious underworld of ‘aliens.’
Until then, he’s well paid. And by virtue of his souls wish, a much better man than those of the counter-narrative BIG LIE.
My uncle raised the minimum base amount to build a Christian church in Athens. Shows there is now a great work to do among the ‘unbelievers’ who should now find reason to restore ‘a conscience’ in what must be a very ‘woke’ sanctuary city!
Wicked Nineveh repented when the god Dagon apparently coughed up Jonah !
Or, has it gone so far down the shithole that a real ‘prophet’ needs to butcher Laken’s body and send the parts in well documented MSM ways to Athens and other apostate areas of our ‘promised land’, for keen observation ?
*** Read about the degeneracy of the Benjaminites in ancient Israel.
**** This outrage against one very innocent SLAUGHTERED young lady is NOT a
One Off misfortune for us to simply endure.
Fellow Americans,
THIS IS A WAKE-UP CALL.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
THIS IS A CALL TO REPENTANCE.
He who has ears to hear, let him hear;
Eyes to see, let him see.