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'DEADLY COMBINATION': Open Borders, Sanctuary Cities, Soft-on-Crime Policies Led to Laken Riley's Murder, ICE Confirms

By Eric Bolling Staff

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released a statement regarding the killer of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the UGA campus; he was a 26-year-old illegal Venezuelan immigrant who had been caught and released many times.

From Yahoo News:

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, ICE confirmed he had been encountered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 8, 2022, after entering near El Paso and was “paroled and released for further processing.”

ICE also confirmed that Ibarra had been arrested by the New York Police Department a year later, on Sept. 14, 2023, and “charged with acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.”

When ICE learns that what it believes to be a removable illegal immigrant has been arrested on criminal charges, the agency will normally lodge a detainer – a request asking local law enforcement to keep the suspect in custody until they can be transferred to ICE and put into deportation proceedings.

In this case, however, ICE’s statement says Ibarra was released before a detainer could be issued. NYC is also a “sanctuary city,” which generally restricts law enforcement from complying with ICE detainers.

In its statement, ICE said that its Enforcement and Removal Operations office in Atlanta “encountered Ibarra pursuant to his arrest by the University of Georgia Police Department and being charged with murder and other crimes. ERO Atlanta lodged a detainer.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shared the statement from ICE, noting that Laken was the victim of a deadly combination of leftist policies.

“The combination of open borders and sanctuary and soft-on-crime policies is deadly. The illegal alien who murdered Laken Riley had recently been arrested in NY — and then released.”

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