MIKE COLLINS AND LISA McCLAIN: House GOP Just Did Something About Laken Riley Tragedy

Last year, Laken Riley was out on one of her daily runs when she was kidnapped and murdered by an illegal alien, Jose Ibarra.

She was an Augusta University nursing student. He is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. That is a stark contrast.

In 2022, he crossed the southern border and was sent on a taxpayer funded bus to New York City where he was arrested for child endangerment and released without an ICE detainer. He was then flown on the taxpayer dime to Georgia where he was arrested for shoplifting and once again released without a detainer.

Let’s make this clear: Ibarra was known by law enforcement and transported to his victim with our tax dollars.

He should have never been in this country to begin with and he should have been sent back a long time ago. Every part of our system failed Laken Riley, and because of it, a family spent Christmas without their daughter, friends celebrated a new year without a beloved classmate and a community and country were forced to mourn the loss of a life taken so soon.

Immediately after this incident, we got to work to do something about it.

House Republicans knew that this could not be the status quo. The failures that allowed this heinous murder could no longer be acceptable reality.

We wrote legislation, the