When 22-year-old Laken Riley was murdered in broad daylight during one of her daily runs in the college town of Athens, Georgia, it was quickly determined that the main suspect was Jose Ibarra, who had entered the country illegally. Ibarra had been known to the authorities previously, and he had even been apprehended crossing the border, but he was merely released, offered a court date, and got on a bus to New York City.
Riley’s parents and friends are undoubtedly haunted daily by a “what if.”
“What if the administration deported criminal illegal aliens they not only know about, but have already arrested?” Jason and Allyson’s daughter would be alive.
But rather than help prevent a trail of grieving families, this awful question haunts a growing number of families in the greater D.C. area, as violent crime perpetuated by illegal immigrants continues to rise.
In February, Nilson Trejo-Grenados was arrested in Maryland for the murder of a two-year-old boy in D.C. Trejo-Grenados, who hails from El Salvador and was in the United States illegally, had previously had a removal order against him as recently as 2022. Trejo-Grenados was never deported. …