Laken Hope Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant released into the United States, is the latest American woman to fall victim to the federal government’s incompetence in enforcing immigration laws. be.
Laken Riley
On Feb. 22, Riley went for a morning jog along the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, where she transferred in 2023. When Riley did not return, his roommate called the police, who began searching for him.
Riley graduated from the University of Georgia and began nursing school at Augusta University’s Athens campus. Riley has been an avid runner since running cross country in high school in Woodstock, Georgia.
Her body was found in a wooded area near Herrick Lake just hours after Riley left for her morning run. Police said Riley’s body had visible injuries to her. The next day, police arrested José Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
Ybarra crossed the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time in September 2022. Millions have been released so far as part of President Joe Biden’s expansive catch-and-release network, but Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have cited a lack of enforcement. Mr. Ibarra was released into the interior of the United States. Detention space to keep him locked up.
DHS sources said Ybarra was arrested in Queens, New York, in September 2023 on a charge of injury to a child under 17 and should have been deported from the United States. Instead, thanks to the city’s protection policy, Ibarra was released from prison. Rather than him being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ybarra is currently charged with Riley’s kidnapping and murder, as well as charges of aggravated assault, aggravated assault, interfering with a 911 call and concealing the death of a person.
Molly Tibbetts
The murder of Molly Tibbetts is perhaps the most similar case to Riley’s.
On July 18, 2018, Molly Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, was jogging in Brooklyn, Iowa, when she encountered Cristian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant. , I was chased. A foreigner from Mexico.
Bahena Rivera, who was convicted of Tibbetts’ murder in May 2021 and sentenced to life in prison without parole in August 2021, kidnapped Tibbetts and attacked him up to 12 times in the head, torso, hands and neck. After stabbing him, he dumped her body in a cornfield and covered her. in a corn stalk.
Bahena-Rivera continues to maintain her innocence, but more than a month after Tibbetts first went missing, Bahena-Rivera led police to the scene of Tibbetts’ body. .
After crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at age 17, Bahena Rivera was able to work on a dairy farm using a stolen ID and Social Security card. There was no indication that DHS was monitoring Rivera.
Molly Tibbetts (Photo via Facebook)
Kayla Hamilton
On July 27, 2022, just days after Kayla Hamilton’s 20th birthday, she was found dead on her bedroom floor in Aberdeen, Maryland. Prosecutors say members of the Illegal Alien MS-13 gang entered Hamilton’s bedroom, strangled her with a cell phone charger cord, raped her and robbed her of $6.
Hamilton called her boyfriend for help during the struggle, but her phone went to voicemail. Audio of Hamilton’s murder can be heard in a voicemail that lasts more than two minutes.
The Illegal Alien MS-13 gang member was arrested in January 2023 after police spent months searching for the suspect in Hamilton’s murder.
In May 2023, a bombshell report released by the House Judiciary Committee revealed that members of the Illegal Alien MS-13 gang had captured unaccompanied alien children (UACs) after arriving at the southern border in May 2022. It was revealed that he was released into the interior of the United States under false pretenses. He claims to be fleeing gang violence in his native El Salvador.
However, several years before his arrival, members of the Illegal Alien MS-13 gang were arrested in El Salvador for “illegal gang affiliation.” After arriving at the border, DHS officials failed to check the gang members for gang tattoos and did not call Salvadoran authorities to confirm whether they had criminal or gang history.
The illegal alien’s ties to the MS-13 gang were discovered by Aberdeen police, not DHS, after Hamilton’s murder. To clarify his affiliation, the officer simply called authorities in El Salvador.
Angel mom Tammy Nobles is currently suing DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for $100 million for authorities releasing illegal alien MS-13 gang members into the United States just months before her daughter’s death. has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
Kayla Marie Hamilton (Photo courtesy of Aberdeen Police Department)
Kate Steinle
Kate Steinle’s case has become synonymous with the harm that illegal immigrants inflict on American families.
On July 1, 2015, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father along Pier 14 in San Francisco, California. The man who fired the gun that ultimately killed Steinle was an illegal alien named Jose García Zarate, who had been convicted seven times and deported five times.
Surveillance camera footage captured Zarate fleeing the scene after shooting Steinle. Just days after the shooting, Zarate admitted in a television interview that he shot Steinle, saying he chose San Francisco as his home because of the city’s strict sanctuary city policies and California’s sanctuary state law.
After being arrested on drug charges in April 2015, Zarate was released by local police in San Francisco, despite ICE agents requesting that he be taken into custody for deportation again. Less than four months later, Zarate shot Steinle, killing her.
On November 30, 2017, Zarate was acquitted of Steinle’s murder. Zarate has been charged in Texas with illegally reentering the United States multiple times.
Kate Steinle (Photo via Facebook)
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