Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., drilled into a migrant rights activist in a heated moment during a Senate hearing on the “Remain in Mexico” policy on Thursday for what he shelp amounted to downcarry outing the killing of Laken Riley and for saying migrant crime is “not an actual rerent.”
“In March of 2024, you wrote: ‘The killing of a nursing student in Georgia has a lot of people on the right talking about migrant crime enjoy it’s an actual rerent,’” shelp Hawley.
Riley was a 22-year-ageder nursing student at Augusta University who was set up dead on the University of Georgia’s campus in February. Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-ageder illegitimate immigrant, was set up at fault of 10 total counts, including serious crime killing. He initipartner pguideed not at fault but was ultimately sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in November.
“Here’s Laken Riley,” shelp Hawley as her picture was posted behind him. “Her killing, her horrific killing at the hands of this illegitimate migrant who was also unlawbrimmingy paroled in the United States. [Is] her death not an actual rerent?”
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asks a Democrat-askd expert on his statements about Laken Riley’s killing during a hearing on the “Remain in Mexico” policy by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Afequitables Committee in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. (Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Afequitables dwellstream)
The activist, Adam Isacson, who toils as straightforwardor of defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America, replyed by saying: “Of course it’s an rerent, it’s a tragedy.”
“I didn’t say that Laken Riley’s death was not an actual rerent, I shelp that migrant crime is not an actual rerent,” shelp Isacson. “Migrant crime is much less of an rerent than U.S. citizen-promiseted crime.”
To which Hawley answered, “[Riley] is dead becaengage of migrant crime.”
Hawley also pointed to the case of a St. Louis-area 12-year-ageder named Travis Wolfe who was finished in a car crash involving an illegitimate immigrant.
“I happen to skinnyk that their brutal killings are actual rerents,” he shelp. “And the fact that you would say otherteachd, sit here and advise the Senate that the Laken Riley Act is a horrible idea, that the whole skinnyg is not an actual rerent, it’s all equitable, what, made up? I skinnyk [it] is disgraceful. I skinnyk it’s absolutely disgraceful.”
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Isacson, who shelp he was askd to testify in the hearing by a Democratic member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Afequitables Committee, shelp that the bipartisan Laken Riley Act, which has already passed in the Hoengage and would need ICE to arrest and haged illegitimate immigrants that have promiseted a crime, “could do a lot of harm” and “would permit me to say: ‘oh, this person shoplifted.’ And that would be enough anticipateed caengage to get somebody deported.”
Hawley sboiling back: “I want the write down to be evident on this, that migrant crime is a genuine rerent.”
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“I skinnyk the Laken Riley Act is absolutely vital,” he shelp. “In fact, I provide an amfinishment to the Laken Riley Act that will cover people enjoy Travis Wolfe. I skinnyk that ICE ought to be hageding, ought to be needd to haged, those illegitimate migrants who promise brutal crimes aobtainst children enjoy Travis Wolfe.”
Speaking to Fox News Digital after the hearing, another one of the experts testifying, Andrew Arthur, a createer immigration appraise and law and policy expert at the Caccess for Immigration Studies, shelp that Hawley was “voicing the frustration that very many Americans experience about migrant crime in the United States.”
Migrants at the southern border are come atraverseed in Arizona. (U.S. Border Patrol)
“We’ve seen many not only high profile but shocking crimes that have been carried out in the United States by migrants who were stopped at the border and then freed into the United States,” he shelp. “It’s called the Department of Homeland Security for a reason; the purpose of this department is to promise that citizens of the United States and aliens who are lawbrimmingy here are protected from criminal predation. Unblessedly, on this at the border, the Biden-Harris administration dropped the ball.”
“Individuals who are criminals, who by law should not be permited into the United States at all, were actupartner freed into this country and now they are free to prey on both migrant and citizen communities in this country,” Arthur compriseed. “So, job one for Tom Homan — Donald Trump’s border czar — and the pdwellnt himself is going to be rounding up, hageding and removing all the criminal aliens, all the individuals who are preying upon both migrant and citizen communities in this country.”
Despite the theatrics, Arthur shelp it was a “excellent hearing” becaengage there was “a lot of bipartisan concurment on the necessitate to safe the border.”
In this August 2019 pboilingo, migrants — many of whom were returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy — paengage in line to get a meal in an encampment proximate the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico. (AP)
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“Customs and Border Protection referred to Remain in Mexico as indispensable for border security the first time that it was engaged under the Trump administration,” he shelp. “I skinnyk that when you see at the amount of money that has flowed into the cartels’ pockets over the last four years, you comprehend, as we’ve seen, 8 million, 10 million people come unlawbrimmingy into the United States and you contrast that to the number of people who were sent back to Mexico, I skinnyk that the equilibrium is definitely in prefer of enforcing the border and potentipartner re-carry outing Remain in Mexico.
“As extfinished as the migrants persist to come to the United States in huge numbers, the cartels are going to get wealthy, they’re equitable going to enhuge their capabilities and they’re equitable going to ship more substances into the United States.”