President-elect Donald Trump's next “border czar” has declared the Biden administration “bleeding” over the murder of Laken Riley, a Georgia college student who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant earlier this year.
As the trial of Jose Ibarra, the suspect in Riley's murder, resumed in Athens on Monday, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan slammed the outgoing Democratic president.
Ibarra is accused of bludgeoning a 22-year-old nursing student to death as she fought for her life.
“If President Trump were president, he would be in Mexico under the 'Remain in Mexico' program,” Homan said. He spoke on FOX News on Saturday. This is in reference to a policy that requires immigrants to wait for their court hearings south of the border rather than in the United States.
“He would never have been released in the United States. If President Trump had been president and had actually come into the United States and been arrested for a crime in New York before committing this murder, he would have been released on the streets. Instead, it would have been handed over to us.
“That means this regime has blood in its veins.”
Riley's murder sparked outrage after it was revealed that Riley's alleged killer had been released by immigration authorities after illegally entering the United States via Texas due to a lack of detention space. Ta.
He was then arrested in the Big Apple in August 2023 for illegally riding a gasoline moped without a helmet and with a 5-year-old on the back, but was released again. From there he fled to Georgia.
Homan said leaders who support sanctuary city status, which results in local authorities not cooperating with ICE officers, said the last moments of Riley's life when her cellphone's emergency function activated and called for help. He said people should listen to the 911 recording that captured the incident.
“Listen to that tape and hear how that young woman died,” he said.
Homan said federal authorities under the Trump administration will likely seek to extract funds from major cities with sanctuary status, similar to moves they attempted during Trump's first term, which was the subject of legal battles. Ta.
“Look, if they don't help us, we'll just double the personnel in those cities,” Homan said. “They don't want ICE agents in their neighborhoods, but they also won't allow ICE agents in their jails. They understand that if they put us in jails, there will be fewer agents in their neighborhoods.” I haven’t.”
The longtime federal law enforcement official also vowed to eliminate the violent Venezuelan gang Torren de Aragua.
“Tren de Aragua, they are on alert,” he said. “Their days of violence and bloodshed in this country are rapidly coming to an end. Message to Toren de Aragua: My gang is bigger than your gang, so we will bring you down intend to.”
