Published November 21, 2024
An illegal alien Tren de Aragua gang member has been convicted on all counts for murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia in February of this year. The felon had been released from the southern border into the United States by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration and given a work permit.
On Wednesday, an Athens judge found Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela, guilty of murdering Laken Riley after stalking her on an early morning jog around the University of Georgia (UGA) campus on Feb. 22, 2024.
Ibarra faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
President-Elect Donald Trump, who drew attention to the case and met with Riley’s parents, was pleased by the verdict but said it will not make the pain any easier on the Riley family.
The day Riley was murdered, she went for a jog on a route that she ran often without any prior incident. Riley was an avid runner and nursing school student at Augusta University.
Supporters of former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump hold images of Laken Riley before he speaks at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
When Riley did not return after her jog, her roommates searched for her and called UGA police. Riley’s body was discovered bludgeoned in a wooded area on the UGA campus. The following day, Ibarra was arrested and charged with Riley’s murder.
Ibarra crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas on Sept. 8, 2022. Biden and Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Ibarra into the U.S. interior with parole, citing a lack of available detention space even as more than 8,000 detention beds were available at the time.
That month, Ibarra ended up in the sanctuary city of New York City, New York where he requested a “humanitarian flight” to Georgia.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
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Jose Ibarra, 26, was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia in February.AP
THE NEW YORK POST | Published November 21, 2024
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office says it’s “outrageous” that the illegal migrant convicted of killing Laken Riley may have taken a free Biden administration flight from the Big Apple before he committed the heinous murder.
The furious reaction came as Jose Ibarra, 26, was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for killing the 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, in a case that ignited a national firestorm over immigration.
“The recent revelation of how Laken Riley’s alleged killer made it to Georgia is outrageous,” the Republican governor’s spokesman told the Daily Caller just before the Tren de Aragua gang member was convicted.
Ibarra’s ex-roommate had testified during his trial earlier this week that he had flown from New York to Georgia after requesting a free flight while at the Roosevelt Hotel migrant intake center in Manhattan.
Sources later told The Post that Ibarra was put on the taxpayer-funded flight from JFK to Atlanta, Ga., in September last year — just six months before he hunted down and killed the Augusta University student.
Kemp’s office said they are now demanding answers from the Biden administration on how Ibarra ended up in the Peach State.
“While the Biden Administration continues to ignore our request for accurate and detailed information on illegal border crossings and relocations efforts, Governor Kemp has positioned Georgia to do what it can to address the crisis at the border,” Kemp’s spokesperson said.
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