Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, in Athens, Georgia, is dead today, a victim of blunt force trauma to the head.

Her family and friends have shared with the world the kind of person Laken was, and she will be remembered for her joy of life, her desire to help others, her strong Christian faith, her love of Jesus and her loving spirit. (RELATED: REP. BURGESS OWENS: Biden Admin’s Border Chaos Is Eerily Reminiscent Of A Radical Decades-Old Playbook)

Her alleged murderer is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela, who wouldn’t have been in our country to commit the crime if it had not been for Joe Biden’s open-borders immigration policy.

That open-borders policy is the result of deliberate choices, made after costs, benefits and other options were considered. And those choices have consequences.

Ibarra was in the country because the Biden administration made a deliberate decision to allow him into the country. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Ibarra was detained by the Border Patrol on September 8, 2022, after entering the country unlawfully near El Paso, Texas.

It is unclear whether he claimed asylum.

Whether he did or not, he entered the country unlawfully. He should have been detained and deported. But the Biden administration — acting through Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and his subordinates, implementing a policy Biden and Mayorkas agreed upon at the beginning of the Biden administration three years ago — chose to allow Ibarra to remain in the country.

He was paroled and set free.

That was an abuse of the president’s parole authority.........

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