A professor from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina recently claimed that Laken Riley’s murder has been “politicized.”
Laken Riley was a student at the University of Georgia who was ambushed and murdered in 2024 at the hands of Jose Ibarra, an illegal alien.
Riley’s murder led to the passage of the Laken Riley Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump on Jan. 29, which makes the Department of Homeland Security detain illegal aliens “who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting” and “authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement.”
An English professor at Warren Wilson College, Paula Garrett, expressed concern over the idea that Riley’s death might be used to supposedly demonize illegal aliens, as noted by The Echo Newspaper.
“There are crimes [committed] every day by people who have full citizenship…and we don’t call attention to their immigration status,” Garrett said. “That was a convenient, politicization in order to continue…the use of force that is being used to attack and criminalize people who are here seeking a better life.” […]
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