Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University in Athens, Georgia, went for a routine run Thursday morning and crossed paths with an illegal immigrant who police say beat her to death near Lake Herrick on the University of Georgia campus in a “crime of opportunity.”
Critics of the Biden administration’s apparent failures to address a mass influx of illegal immigrants across the southern border say Jose Antonio Ibarra, the suspected killer from Venezuela, shouldn’t have been in the U.S. to begin with.
“Laken Riley’s story is heartbreaking,” said Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican who co-sponsored a pair of border security bills and has been floated as a possible vice presidential pick. “It should be a wake-up call to the Biden administration that we cannot continue putting Americans’ lives at risk with their open border policies.”
Former President Trump even vowed to kick off the “largest deportation operation” in history if he’s reelected in November.
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“President Biden has the authority to fix the crisis at the border, and that includes the power to deport illegal immigrants with a record,” Scott said. “While President Biden refuses to act, I’ve championed legislation to resume construction of the border wall, tighten asylum standards, prohibit DHS from using its app to assist illegal immigrants, and provide Border Patrol agents the tools they need.”
In addition to criminals crossing without proper vetting, he said fentanyl is…
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