Peach Tree Times

Speaking at an October 28 rally in Atlanta, former President Donald Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris’s immigration policies have endangered American communities and contributed to violent crimes by “savage criminals” allegedly allowed into the United States under her watch.

“The American public is outraged that Kamala is importing savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls,” said Trump. “Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office."

61% of Georgia voters think the Biden/Harris administration’s border policies are to blame for crimes like an illegal alien’s February 22 murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. 

That’s according to a poll of Georgia voters released by the League of American Workers (LAW). The survey was conducted among 600 likely Georgia voters on May 1-4, 2024 by North Star Public Opinion Research.

Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, was found murdered on February 22, 2024, after going for a jog at the University of Georgia campus. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela, was charged with her murder. Riley had been killed by blunt force trauma to the head.

Ibarra had previously been arrested by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on September 8, 2022, for entering the U.S. illegally near El Paso, Texas. He was then released pending adjudication of his claim for “asylum.”

He was then arrested again in August 2023 by the New York Police Department and charged with acting in a manner to injure a child and a motor vehicle license violation.

Almost half, 46%, of Georgia voters said the Biden/Harris administration’s policies bear a “great deal” of responsibility for crimes such as Riley’s murder by an illegal alien, while 15% said these policies bear “some” responsibility. 

Among voters who have heard a “great deal” or some about the Riley case, 68% blame the Biden/Harris administration’s administration policies. 

The U.S. House passed the “Laken Riley Act” on March 7 with a vote of 251-170. The bill would require the detention and deportment of illegal aliens charged with theft. 

Every Republican and 37 Democrats supported the measure, while 170 Democrats voted against it. Every Democrat Georgia member of the U.S. House voted against the act.

The bill is now pending in the U.S. Senate.