The system finally worked. The illegal immigrant who killed Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was convicted on all charges— but there’s only one problem: it goes against the left’s narrative concerning immigration.
Just minutes after Jose Ibarra, an illegal Venezuelan who entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s lax border policies, ABC News reporter Ike Ejiochi accused President-elect Donald Trump of having blood on his hands.
Ejiochi referred to the murder of the innocent girl as a “political lightning rod,” suggesting that Trump used Laken’s death to gain political points ahead of the 2024 election. Although he acknowledged that Ibarra came into the U.S. illegally and was paroled after being arrested a year later in New York and then released under the Biden-Harris Administration, the liberal news reporter refused to accept that Riley’s death was the sole effect of the current president’s policies.
He also claimed there is “very little evidence indicating a connection between immigration and violent crime.”
Minutes after the illegal scum who killed Laken Riley was sentenced, Fake News hack @IkeEjiochi was on ABC blaming President Trump.
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 20, 2024
This isn't a "political lightning rod" — it's a TRAGEDY that ONLY happened because Biden-Harris LET this animal roam our country. pic.twitter.com/y0Tp3qpZqg
However, June's U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that the number of criminal immigrants who have entered the U.S. since 2021 has more than doubled. The data found that the majority of illegal criminal aliens who have been apprehended at the southern border under the Biden presidency have been convicted of crimes. This includes 814 for assault, battery, or domestic violence, 23 for homicide or manslaughter, and 168 for sexual offenses. More than 15,000 illegal aliens convicted of crimes were apprehended at the border in FY 2023.
In addition, at least 90 people on the terror watchlist have been encountered by authorities trying to enter the country between ports of entry this fiscal year, while 169 people were on the terror watchlist in FY 2023. Border Patrol agents have apprehended over 13,700 illegal aliens with criminal convictions and 360 gang members in FY 2024.
And this is to name a few.
“President-elect Trump, several Republicans on the Hill, wanted to essentially plant their flag on and point that to the current Biden administration,” Ejiochi said.
Without acknowledging that Ibarra entered the U.S. while President Joe Biden was in office, Ejiochi berated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for criticizing the president during his last State of the Union address.
