The verdict should bring some peace to Riley’s family and other Athens students, Georgiabut much remains to be done to ensure that this completely preventable brutality never happens again.

Ibarra was first encountered by federal law enforcement officials on September 8, 2022, when he was arrested by the US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas for the crime of illegal crossing of the southern border. Instead of detaining him for deportation, as required by federal law, President Joe Biden used his parole authority to release Ibarra, along with hundreds of other illegal border crossers who were arrested that day, in country.

If Biden had kept President-elect Donald Trump’s policy of staying in Mexico and returned Ibarra to Mexico instead of letting him stay in the United States, Riley would still be alive today.

Fast forward to September 14, 2023, and Ibarra is arrested again, this time by the NYPD for driving without a license and endangering a child. Not only did New York prosecutors choose not to prosecute Ibarra, but following the jurisdiction’s sanctuary city policy, they failed to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials that he had broken the law again.

If New York City didn’t have a sanctuary policy, and if it was the Biden administration’s policy to detain and deport inadmissible aliens who commit crimes, Riley would still be alive today.

Ibarra then bought a plane ticket from New York City to Athens, Georgia, using taxpayer money. He chose Athens as his destination because his brother, who was also paroled following his arrest after entering the country illegally and received sanctuary policies after being arrested for driving under the influence, and -secured a job in Athens using fraudulent social security. number. If Biden had detained Ibarra’s brother at the border and if Athens had reported him to ICE after his DUI arrest, then Riley would still be alive today.

The murders and mayhem caused by the Biden-era Ibarras are a big part of why Trump won re-election. Not only does Trump have a clear mandate to end Biden’s southern border catch-and-release policies and other parole programs, but he should use the levers of the federal government to force Democratic-controlled jurisdictions such as New York City, put an end to it. their sanctuary policies and help deport criminal aliens.

Unfortunately, even after losing heavily at the polls, Democrats are signaling that they still want to protect illegal immigrants. The governors. JB Pritzker (D-IL), Maura Healey (D-MA) and Phil Murphy (D-NJ) pledged to do everything in their power to stop Trump from deporting illegal immigrants.

“You come for my people, you come through me,” Pritzker he told reporters last week.

Are immigrants like Ibarra his people? Who knew? It doesn’t sound like a popular political line.

However, just this week, the Los Angeles City Council passed a sanctuary law that prohibits the use of any city personnel or resources for any federal immigration enforcement.

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If law enforcement in Democratic-controlled jurisdictions won’t cooperate with ICE, Trump should cancel blocked Justice Department grants to those cities. If Democrats persist, all federal block grants, including HUD Community Development and Department of Transportation grants for infrastructure, should be canceled.

The criminal justice system exists not only to help bring closure to the victim’s families by punishing the guilty. It is meant to prevent crime. For too long, the Democratic Party has prioritized the well-being of illegal immigrants over the safety of citizens. Trump and the Republican Party need to make sure that changes. The nation will thank them if they do.