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Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: President Trump meets Laken Riley's family and offers her mother a hug

The illegal Venezuelan migrant charged in the shocking slaying of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley “shouldn’t have even been here,” her outraged friend said. Riley, a 22-year-old student at Augusta University, was killed on Feb. 22 while jogging on the nearby University of Georgia campus. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan citizen who entered the United States illegally in 2022, is being held without bond on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, kidnapping and other counts. The suspect, who did not know Riley, never should’ve been able to carry out the alleged attack on the beloved student, former...

By Social Links forMegan Palin and Social Links forOlivia Land Published March 8, 2024, 3:02 p.m. ET The heartbroken mother of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley slammed President Biden for fumbling her daughter’s name during the State of Union speech — calling him “pathetic” for the slip. “Biden does not even KNOW my child’s name – it [sic] pathetic!” Allyson Philips wrote in response to a Facebook comment Friday. ‘If you are going to say her name (even when forced to do so) at least say the right name!” she insisted. The grieving mother also wrote “Amen!’ underneath a comment...

This writer often wishes he had the luxury of being a ribbons and roses prophecy person. The kind of message that promises nothing but God’s blessing, full restoration of everything lost, and the return of the good times, has always been the stuff of false prophets and those who will not take responsibility for the truth. I don’t care to face God one day, with only a flimsy explanation for why I did not do, the one thing God called me to do in this life. All the political pundits will cover the SOTU with razor sharp scrutiny. They won’t...

The ad from Building America's Future will bracket President Biden's State of the Union address in several battleground states.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was what the Republicans demanded, but never expected. President Joe Biden said her name. “Laken Riley.” Even before Biden started speaking, the topic of border security was certain to rise as one of the most tense moments in the State of the Union address. Biden was confronted as he walked into the House chamber by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hardline Republican, decked out in a red Trump MAGA hat and a t-shirt emblazoned with the message, which was also on a button she pressed into his hand. “Say her name,” it said, the phrase evoking...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) donned a Make America Great Again hat and shirt honoring slain Georgia nursing student Laken Riley as Biden delivered his State of the Union address Thursday. Democrats, led by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), demanded that Greene remove the hat before Biden, 81, entered the chamber, but the Georgia Republican refused. ... “Say her name. Laken Riley,” read the T-shirt Greene wore under her bright red blazer. The congresswoman also pinned two buttons on her blazer – a “Say her name” one, and another with a photo of Riley. ... “Utter disrespect,” she said in a...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN that President Joe Biden “should have said undocumented” on Thursday after he said Laken Riley was “killed by an illegal” during his State of the Union address. During an interview with Pelosi following Biden’s speech, CNN anchor Dana Bash said, “Madam speaker, one of the clearly ad-libbed moments was during the section about immigration,” before playing a clip of Biden referring to 22-year-old Riley – who was murdered last month – as “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.” Pelosi replied defensively, “Now he should have said...

President Biden used his State of the Union address Thursday to blast Donald Trump, but stunned listeners as he veered from his script to mention Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s murder last month by an illegal immigrant — erring twice by calling her “Lincoln.” Biden, 81, began his campaign-style speech by highlighting his best-polling positions — on issues such as abortion, NATO and the Capitol riot — but was derailed by persistent Republican heckling, including their demands that he say Riley’s name after the House passed legislation hours earlier in her honor to require the jailing of migrants who commit...

President Joe Biden seemingly mispronounced the name of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student murdered, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, during his State of the Union (SOTU) address on Thursday evening. During his fourth SOTU address, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shouted at Biden, “What about Laken Riley? Say her name!” when he began talking about the issue of illegal immigration. Biden responded, seemingly mispronouncing Riley’s name while admitting that an illegal alien is accused of murdering her on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus in February. “Lincoln Riley!” Biden responded to Greene. “An innocent young...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨The U.S. House has passed the Laken Riley Act by a 251-170 vote. Every single Republican voted to pass it and all 170 votes against it were Democrats. The proposed law would require the detention and deportation of illegal aliens who have been caught committing crimes.

New York Post @nypost · 4h Laken Riley’s parents turn down State of the Union invite from Rep. Mike Collins https://trib.al/HAGPQBd

Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants. It’s not hard to figure out why. The killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, has become the latest and most prominent case of an American being killed as a consequence of President Joe Biden’s open-border policies. The man being held in connection with the killing of Riley is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who reportedly entered the United States in 2022. Since his arrival in the U.S., he...

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning. Host Margaret Brennen had asked Secretary Mayorkas if the illegal alien who killed Laken Riley should have been deported. He never answered, but instead deflected the question. Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student, was brutally murdered by one of Joe Biden’s illegal aliens. Biden won’t say Laken Riley’s name either. “Should this man have been deported?” Brennen asked Mayorkas. “One individual is responsible for the murder, and that is the murderer,” Mayorkas responded. “Are you saying there that the Federal Government had been informed about this...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the federal government was not notified about previous arrests by the suspect in the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about a- a criminal case that has become a political rallying point. You heard Donald Trump use this phrase, “migrant crime”. A 22 year old nursing student—I know you’ve been following this—Laken Riley, in the state of Georgia, was murdered allegedly by an undocumented Venezuelan migrant. The suspect had been detained by...

The sheriff of the Georgia county where a Venezuelan migrant has been charged with murdering nursing student Laken Riley had campaigned on refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, a resurfaced interview shows. “It is not my intention, when elected sheriff, to cooperate with those detainers,” John Williams, now the sheriff of Athens-Clarke County, said in a 2020 interview with Athens Political Nerds. He was referring to detainers ICE placed on illegal immigrants who were arrested on criminal charges. “I see it as the sheriff’s responsibility, any law enforcement, to protect and serve the community,” Williams continued. “We...

Donald Trump has released a new ad focusing on Laken Reilly's murder and the border crisis--and it's making an impact.

Trump says he spoke to 'devastated' parents of Laken Riley, blasts Biden for border crisis ‘like a war'Former President Trump said he spoke with the "devastated" parents of Laken Riley — the Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered, allegedly by an illegal migrant — saying he is "not going to forget her," and blasting President Biden for "never" saying her name. The former president began his remarks from the border Thursday afternoon by saying he spoke to the parents of Riley, who he described as "an incredible young lady.""The parents are devastated and they’re incredible people," he said. "This...

Democrats acting disgracefully, without dignity, or decorum exude hatred and vindictiveness toward our former President like a gushing broken sewer line – and they call that politics. Millions of “asylum seekers” pour across our borders having just paid a small fortune to a coyote or fixer of some kind. They arrive looking plump, well fed, and clothed, then they are handed a credit card, a phone, a bus ticket, and a big smile from the mayor of some sanctuary city – all at the expense of John Q Taxpayer.