The Biden White House claimed the border was secure, the federal government had a process for processing migrants and that deportations were unreasonable shortly after the suspect in last week’s brutal University of Georgia murder entered the country illegally in September 2022.
President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre all lauded the administration’s work to secure the southern border and handle migrant flows at the time. Their comments, though, have taken on a new meaning after it was revealed Jose Antonio Ibarra, the suspect charged with murdering former University of Georgia student Laken Riley, crossed into the United States illegally on Sept. 8, 2022, after traveling from Venezuela.
“We have a secure border in that, that is a priority for any nation including ours and our administration,” Harris remarked during an interview with NBC News on Sept. 12, 2022, four days after Ibarra crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
Harris added that issues related to immigration remained, such as the need for a “pathway for citizenship.”
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One day after Harris’ comments, Jean-Pierre reiterated during a press briefing that the border was secure.
“As far as the border, we’re taking unprecedented action,” she told reporters. “We had to fix something that was broken, especially by the last administration. We’ve secured record levels — this is what we have been able to do — of funding for the Department of Homeland Security.”
And, during a press briefing two days later on Sept. 15, 2022, Jean-Pierre reiterated that the Biden administration had taken “unprecedented action” to secure the border and “rebuild a safer and orderly process system.” She further boasted that border agents had made 3,000 arrests related to human trafficking enforcement.
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