During Thursday night’s State of the Union Address (SOTU), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was the first person to be killed by 22-year-old Laken Riley. He said he refused to accept a pin honoring him. Last month, he was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant.
Greene, along with other House Republicans, wore pins honoring Riley. Green said she offered Mayorkas one of her pins, but he refused to accept it.
“I just presented this pin to Secretary Mayorkas,” Greene wrote on Twitter. “He refused to say her name and refused to take her pin.”
I just provided Secretary Mayorkas with this pin.
He refused to say her name and refused to take the pin. pic.twitter.com/N9XyIeI2Ah
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 8, 2024
On February 22nd, Riley went for a morning jog around the University of Georgia (UGA) campus in Athens, Georgia. Riley was a nursing student at nearby Augusta University.
Riley didn’t return for several hours, so her roommate called the police. Her body was eventually found mangled near Herrick Lake on the UGA campus. The next day, Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was arrested and charged with murder.
After crossing the southern border, Ybarra was released into the interior of the United States through Biden’s parole pipeline in September 2022.
Ybarra was arrested in the sanctuary cities of New York City and Athens in 2023 before Riley’s murder, but was never turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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