Several Republicans attended President Joe Biden’s fourth State of the Union Address (SOTU) on Thursday night, including Laken Riley, 22, who was allegedly killed last month by an illegal alien released into the United States from the southern border. He arrived with a pin commemorating his death. .
While attending Biden’s SOTU speech, Representative Troy Neals (R-TX), Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), and other Republicans wore pins with a photo of Laken Riley’s name and the text “Say Her Name: Laken Riley.”
Troy Neals wears a Donald Trump-themed shirt during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on March 7, 2024 in the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Congressman (Republican, Texas). (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, is on the House floor before the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024 in Washington, DC, USA. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty)Image
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida leaves the floor ahead of the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington, DC, USA. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, center, on the House floor before the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Al Drago/Bloomberg)
On February 22, Laken 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 he was never extradited. He became an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
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