Mean Tweets…Or Murdered Young Americans?
Illegal migrants terrorize Americans, including 22-year-old Laken Riley at University of Georgia
Even voters who do not warm to the brash style of Donald Trump now long for the days of a commander-in-chief who prioritized American citizens over the wishes of a leftist ruling class. Trump’s recent polling surge proves this point. Now, the horrific, preventable murder in Georgia at the hands of an illegal alien will only accelerate that trend back to Trump, and back to security.
A precious young American woman was brutally assaulted and left for dead on the grounds of the University of Georgia campus. Laken Hope Riley had gone for a daytime run when the brutal attack from a stranger ended the promising life of this nursing student.
Jose Antonio Ibarra is charged with the murder. He resides in Athens, Georgia but is not a US citizen. In fact, Ibarra broke-and-entered into our country as an illegal alien, the first of a string of serious crimes he committed before ultimately inflicting this vicious one upon young Laken.
Per reporting from Ali Bradley at NewsNation, Ibarra crossed without permission into America in 2022 at El Paso, Texas. Like millions of other illegals, he was granted free passage by Joe Biden’s porous border policies -- and made his way far into the interior of America.
In Queens, New York, he was arrested in September of 2023 for “injury to a child” and for driving without a license. That arrest, of course, should have ended his illegal stay in America. But, the so-called “sanctuary city” of New York did not turn Ibarra over to federal authorities for deportation. Instead, the indicted foreign criminal was given free reign to wander America— and found his way to another “sanctuary” jurisdiction in Athens, Georgia, home of the University of Georgia.
So, after trespassing into America in the first place, then committing additional crimes leading to his arrest, this cretin was still allowed to roam American streets unfettered.
The ensuing tragedy was 100% preventable.
Here is the harsh truth: if not for leftist open borders lawlessness from the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas administration, Laken Hope Riley would be alive today. Her family friends would be hugging this cherished young woman, instead of burying her.
Moreover, if authorities in New York City and in Athens had done their duties, Ibarra would be gone from our country and back in Venezuela where he belongs. The failures were manifold and the resulting heartache intense.
Sadly, this tragedy is not some totally isolated outlier. Just weeks ago, a 35 year old Wisconsin husband and father of three, Steven Nasholm was killed by an illegal migrant drunk driver, Jorge-Sanchez Tzanahua. The assailant crossed illegally from Mexico into America, and was not deported despite a prior 2023 arrest for drunk driving.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, migrant mayhem also produced totally preventable pain on an American citizen. Just two months ago, an illegal alien from Nicaragua was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the vicious sexual assault of a woman at an Ohio bus stop. The convict, German Mathews, had been previously deported five times. Yet he re-entered America’s effectively open border, then fractured his victim’s face. The assault was described by a local policewoman as “one of the most brutal crimes on a complete stranger she has ever investigated in her more than 20 years in law enforcement.”
In Georgia, the news of the horrific death of a 22-year-old jogger on a seemingly safe campus will surely rouse citizens to action. Preventable tragedies like this one must not be tolerated. Biden’s border crisis invites unending danger, chaos, and harm to America.
The open borders agenda of Biden and Harris worsens the economic plight of working-class citizens, jeopardizes our national security, and makes our streets unsafe. Biden’s failings on immigration prove that he must be replaced in November, with a return to the strong border, law-and-order policies of President Donald Trump.
(Author note: the original version of this piece contained NewsNation reporting about Jose Antonio Ibarra’s arrests in Georgia, prior to this slaying of Laken Riley. It appears now that those GA arrests were actually his brother, Diego Ibarra. The article had cited NewsNation, which got this reporting wrong — so, subsequently those two sentences were removed from this article).
Biden let in an invading army of illegals who will prey on average citizens.