THE NEW YORK POST – Is Laken Riley’s life worth less than George Floyd’s?
Floyd’s death during a police chokehold on May 25, 2020, ignited nationwide protests to reform police procedures.
“It doesn’t get any worse than that,” President Donald Trump said of Floyd’s death. Within three weeks, he signed an executive order establishing an abuse-of-force database and called for improved police practices.
Fast forward to Feb. 22, 2024, when Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was bludgeoned to death, allegedly at the hands of an illegal migrant, Jose Ibarra, who is a member of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Democrats are accusing Republicans of trying to “score cheap political” points by demanding migrants be vetted before being allowed in the United States.
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Kelly Girtz, the Democratic mayor of Athens, Ga., where Riley was killed, insists the focus should be on the individual perpetrator, not migrants as a whole.
Ridiculous. Was the focus only on Derek Chauvin, the cop with his knee on Floyd’s neck?
Riley’s murder should ignite demand for rigorous vetting of migrants trying to cross the border.
Riley is dead because the Biden administration lets anyone in, and lies about it.
Ibarra was first arrested for illegally crossing into the United States in September 2022.
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But Customs and Border Patrol kept him less than 24 hours before releasing him to go anywhere in the country he chose. Zero vetting.
Internal Homeland Security documents identify Ibarra as a gang member.
But former Border Patrol officers explain that the Biden administration wants “migrants out of our hands and out of our custody as fast as humanly possible.”
No time to check records.
Homeland Security insist migrants undergo “robust security vetting.”
Yet that lie was exposed on Friday when a federal judge ruled on a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s airplane parole program, which allows 30,000 migrants per month from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela to fly into the United States …