In an announcement to Fox Information Monday afternoon, the White Home supplied condolences to Riley’s household.
“We want to lengthen our deepest condolences to the household and family members of Laken Hope Riley. Individuals ought to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the legislation if they’re discovered to be responsible. Given that is an energetic case, we must refer you to state legislation enforcement and ICE,” the White Home mentioned in an announcement
to Fox.
Riley, 22, was discovered useless Thursday after jogging close to a lake on UGA’s campus. Riley
died from blunt force trauma. On Friday, the suspect in her killing, Jose Antonio Ibarra, was charged with felony homicide, false imprisonment and kidnapping and concealing the demise of one other.
Ibarra
was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in September 2022 after he unlawfully entered the U.S. close to El Paso, Texas.
A number of congressional Republicans are additionally calling for stricter border safety amid the demise of Riley, citing a connection between immigration and crime —
though there is little evidence to suggest such a hyperlink. The requires elevated border safety come after congressional Republicans killed a bipartisan border deal within the Senate earlier this month.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson
said in a post on social media Saturday that Biden wanted to “shut the border” in gentle of Riley’s demise.
“The brutal assassin who took the lifetime of Laken was one of many hundreds of thousands of unlawful aliens that the Biden Administration merely launched and unleashed upon our nation,” Johnson mentioned. “For Laken, and the numerous many others misplaced to this border disaster, Home Republicans will proceed to battle tooth and nail for a return to legislation and order.”
Riley’s demise and the ensuing renewed urgency for tighter border measures mirror the fallout from 2018’s slaying of
20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowan killed by an undocumented immigrant.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
shared a letter addressed to President Joe Biden on Saturday slamming the Democrat’s “failed insurance policies” on the border.
“Laken Riley’s tragic demise struck the hearts of Georgians in every single place and has sparked nationwide outrage,” Kemp mentioned in a submit on X. “Joe Biden’s failed insurance policies have turned each state right into a border state, and I’m demanding data from him so we are able to shield our folks when the federal authorities gained’t!”
