Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, came under heavy fire from House Speaker Mike Johnson for refusing to admit that the undocumented immigrant who is accused of killing University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley brutally did not have the right to be in the nation.
Mayorkas confirmed the 22-year-old’s murder in an interview with CBS News on Sunday. But the Louisiana Republican was angered by his failure to take responsibility or admit that the suspect, Jose Antonio Ibarra, ought to have been jailed or deported. He stressed on the X platform that Riley would “still be alive today” if Mayorkas had done his job.
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“When asked about the tragic murder of Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant, Secretary Mayorkas visibly checked his talking points on how to deflect blame. Her killer should NOT have been allowed to enter the country and if the Administration had stopped him and turned him around as they should have, Laken Riley would be alive today,” Johnson wrote.
Host Margaret Brennan of “Face the Nation” first asked about “migrant crime” in general during the interview, but she then narrowed her emphasis to the Laken murder.
“[Ibarra] had been detained by Border Patrol upon crossing, released with temporary permission to stay in the country,” She emphasized to him that he “then went on allegedly to commit crimes twice, once in New York for driving a scooter without a license, and once in connection with a shoplifting case in Georgia.”
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