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Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student from UGA, was brutally murdered in broad daylight on one of America’s largest college campuses by 26-year-old José Antonio Ibarra. According to Ali Bradley of News Nation, Ibarra is an illegal alien from Venezuela who crossed into the country in September 2022. He had been arrested five months ago in New York City for injury to a child but was not deported due to the city’s sanctuary laws. He is being charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death of another.
Sadly, Laken Riley was just one of many Americans who lost their lives in the last few weeks because President Biden refused to enforce our immigration laws. Steven Nasholm, a 35-year-old husband and father of three daughters in Rusk County, Wisconsin, was murdered by Jorge Sanchez-Tzanhua, a 22-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, who was arrested and charged with drunk driving and felony homicide. (Breitbart News)
Another illegal alien, Julian Marcial, was arrested in Missoula, Montana, for attempted homicide of a prosecutor, a law enforcement officer, and Marcial’s estranged wife. (NBC Montana)
NBC News reported that President Biden is preparing to take unilateral action without Congress to make it harder for migrants to pass the initial screening for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and quickly deport recently arrived migrants who don’t meet the criteria. The new policies would instruct asylum officers to raise the standards they use in their “credible fear interviews.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement would also be told to prioritize migrants who have recently arrived for deportation. The action is still weeks away from being finalized, but the hopes are that it will reduce the issue ahead of the election. If Biden does put forward the action, it has the potential of being a double-edged sword for Republicans. It has the potential to reduce the importance of immigration ahead of the election, but it will prove Republicans correct that he had the power to act alone the whole time. It may also disappoint several open border hardliners who are hoping he’d push for an amnesty instead of more Trump-era policies.
Compounding problems for President Biden is Venezuela’s recent announcement that they would stop accepting flights of migrants deported from Mexico, and U.S. President Nicolás Maduro introduced the measure after Washington reimposed some of the economic sanctions it had previously lifted on Venezuela. Mexican authorities had been flying them from communities along the U.S.-Mexico border to cities in southern Mexico, part of an effort to discourage the flow of U.S.-bound migrants from Venezuela and prevent mass concentrations near the U.S. (The Wall Street Journal)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is coming under fire for offering a $53 million no-bid contract to give prepaid debit cards to 500 migrant families with children to help them pay for food and baby supplies as part of a pilot program. Even Democrats are concerned that Adams is handing out emergency contracts to donors and friends. (The New York Times)