{"id":2203523,"date":"2024-03-21T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laken-rileys-father-demands-georgia-senate-enact-immigration-reform\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:42:00","slug":"laken-rileys-father-demands-georgia-senate-enact-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laken-rileys-father-demands-georgia-senate-enact-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Laken Riley&#8217;s father urges Georgia Senate to pass immigration reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flaken-rileys-father-demands-georgia-senate-enact-immigration-reform%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2203523&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Laken Riley&#8217;s Father Urges Georgia State Senate to Address Immigration Concerns<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>  The Georgia state Senate hosted Laken Riley\u2019s father,\u200c Jason Riley, in its chambers, and he asked it\u200c to act on the over a million \u200dimmigrants \u201cmaking families\u2064 nervous.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The University of Georgia\u2064 student\u2019s body was discovered on campus on Feb. 22. Riley \u2062was allegedly murdered by Jose Ibarra, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-predicts-that-us-is-never-going-to-have-a-secure-border-under-biden\/\" title=\"JD Vance believes that the US will not achieve a secure border during Biden's presidency\">illegal immigrant living<\/a> near \u2062campus who has been arrested in connection to her\u200b death. Ibarra faces charges of \u2063malice murder, felony\u2064 murder, aggravated battery, aggravated\u200b assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death \u200bof another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riley&#8217;s Emotional Plea Before the Senate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God gave me a beautiful daughter to\u2063 father protect, provide for, and nurture. A man with an evil heart stole her life. He was in this country and in this state illegally,&#8221; Riley told the senate. &#8220;My vision for every senator in\u200c this\u2064 chamber\u200d is that you protect \u200ccitizens from\u200b this illegal invasion. Please recognize over a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-accuse-biden-of-playing-political-game-over-border-crisis\/\" title=\"House Republicans Accuse Biden of Playing \u2018Political Game\u2019 Over Border Crisis\">million illegal aliens<\/a> are in this state and making families \u200dnervous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Laken Riley&#8217;s Father Speaks Before the Georgia\u200b State Senate:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>  &#8220;I stand before you \u2062a heartbroken man\u2026Governor Kemp, please declare an invasion to \u200cdetain and deport\u2064 criminal illegals!&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Riley \u2063acknowledged the actions \u2063taken on Riley\u2019s behalf, such as the passage of House Bill 1105, which allows for local authorities to\u200d detain immigrants for \u2062deportation\u200b should they find they are not legal residents. Should any office\u200b not report the legal status of an immigrant in its custody, \u200dthey could \u201cbe\u200b subject to the withholding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-bill-seeks-to-ban-critical-race-theory\/\" title=\"West Virginia Bill Seeks To Ban Critical Race Theory\">state funding<\/a> or state \u2063administered federal funding\u201d per the bill. The legislation was \u2064drafted by six Republicans and passed 97-74. Only one Democratic member voted \u200cfor the \u200bmeasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please recognize Athens Clark is \u200ba sanctuary city, and this policy and\u2062 the lack of\u200d action led to the murder of \u2062my \u2062daughter,&#8221; Riley said. &#8220;Gov. Kemp, please\u2062 declare an invasion to \u2063detain and report criminal illegals so we can prevent future families from those tragedies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor Kemp&#8217;s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA)\u2063 has not responded \u200bdirectly to Riley\u2019s demands but\u2063 wrote on \u200dX on Thursday that \u2062\u201cJoe Biden doesn\u2019t need an act of Congress to make his Department of Homeland Security\u200c do\u200d its job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athens, Georgia, where Riley was \u2063killed, \u2063has been a sanctuary city since\u2064 2019, when the government passed \u2063a resolution declaring\u200c all immigrants welcome regardless of if they were legal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\">Click here to \u2062read\u2064 more from The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Riley addressed the Georgia state Senate, urging action on immigrants causing concern for families. The tragic discovery of University of Georgia student Laken Riley&#8217;s body on campus on Feb. 22 sparked the call for reform. Allegedly murdered by Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant residing near the campus, the incident highlights the importance of addressing immigration issues promptly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2203524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24080610052508-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24080610052508-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}