On February 22, 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old American nursing student at Augusta University, was abducted and killed while she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. Her body was found in Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick. Her death was violent, caused by blunt force trauma.
The suspect, José Antonio Ibarra, is a 26-year-old Venezuelan who had entered the United States illegally. He was arrested by UGA police and has been charged with felony murder, false imprisonment, and kidnapping.
The murder sparked a debate over immigration in the United States after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that the suspect is not a U.S. citizen and was caught crossing the border but was released into the United States. On March 7, 2024, the House of Representatives passed an immigration bill named the Laken Riley Act, requiring federal detention of migrants who commit burglary or theft.
A Texas grand jury has indicted the illegal immigrant suspect in a 16-year-old girl's brutal killing on capital murder charges.
The indictment obtained by Fox News Digital says Rafael Govea Romero, 23, intentionally caused Lizbeth Medina's death while in the course of attempting to commit a burglary, robbery or sexual assault.
The document also alleges Romero killed Medina by causing the teenager's "head to strike a firm surface," "striking" her head "with a hard object" and "repeatedly stabbing or cutting" her "with a sharp object or edged weapon."
"It's very disturbing to me," Lizbeth's mother, Jacqueline Medina, told Fox News Digital of the indictment, adding she thinks the grand jury handed down the capital murder charge because of "all the evidence and all the other details" in the case.
PLANT CITY, Fla.—Widow Nikki Jones listened to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis demand during a recent press conference, “Where’s the outrage of the failed border policies of the Biden administration?”
“I don’t hear outrage about the criminal aliens that have gotten through and then victimize people—not only in Florida, but all throughout the country,” he railed. Choking back tears as she watched him on Facebook, Jones took notice of the governor’s comments.
Then, casting a heart-wrenching look at her two small daughters, she shouted at the screen, “Your outrage is right here!”
Jones’ 40-year-old husband, Shane, was killed three years ago in a traffic accident involving an illegal immigrant with numerous arrests for driving infractions. The 20-year Air Force veteran also left behind two little girls, now 3 and 5.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, accused of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts as she was jogging, has been found guilty by an Iowa jury.
Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, was found guilty by the jury of first-degree murder for allegedly killing Tibbetts, 20, and hiding her body in a cornfield in the rural city of Brooklyn, Iowa.
Bahena Rivera nodded his head slightly when the verdict was read.
The jury deliberated for seven hours over Thursday and Friday and all were in agreement with the guilty verdict. In Iowa, the sentence for first-degree murder is life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Numerous cases of Americans and legal immigrants being killed by illegal aliens in 2023 have sparked further controversy surrounding the migrant crisis at the border. The cases are made up of a series of tragic incidents, and various age groups and backgrounds are represented among the 14 American victims. These incidents have sparked discussions about immigration policies and border security, with some cases involving illegal aliens who had been previously deported.
“Kayla wasn’t doing anything wrong and she didn’t deserve to be murdered. I don’t want any other parent to live the nightmare that I am living,” one victim’s mother said.
“I am her voice now and I’m going to fight with everything I have to bring awareness to the issue at the border,” the mother concluded.
A 35-year-old illegal alien Hermanio Joseph of Haiti was driving a Honda Odyssey minivan when he hit a Northwestern Local Schools bus that was full of children in Clark County, Ohio. The bus, as a result of the crash, flipped, and 11-year-old Aiden Clark was ejected. That day marked the first day of school for Aiden. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Nearly two dozen of the 52 students on the bus sustained injuries that sent them to hospitals in the region.
Cody Griesdorn, one of Aiden’s baseball coaches, said he always came to practice “ready to have fun and learn the game,” and smiled no matter what happened. “You will be forever missed and in our hearts. I’m honored to have known such a wonderful soul. Rest easy buddy,” Greisdorn wrote.
Brandon Michael, Kiyan’s son, was on his lunch break going to cash a check when an illegal immigrant driving without a license hit Brandon, causing the car to flip and the crash to be fatal. The migrant had already been deported twice, and was even stopped by police months before the accident.
"I was very upset because we're talking about someone who should not have been in our nation to begin with," Michael said. "And if there's one thing that I will overemphasize, that is that our children deserve to be safe in their own nation."
Pinellas County Sheriff Deputy Michael Hartwick was assigned to assist a construction crew and provide safety for them during their overnight roadwork on the interstate. Deputy Hartwick exited his cruiser, walked to the shoulder of the road and stood facing north.
Detectives learned a large front loader with forklifts, used to move concrete barriers, was traveling northbound. The construction worker driving the vehicle, later identified as 32-year-old Juan Ariel Molina, struck Deputy Hartwick. Deputy Hartwick was pronounced deceased at the scene.
May 12, 2014, Sgt. Brandon Mendoza of the Mesa, AZ police department was killed in a violent head-on collision with Raul Silva-Corona, who had a blood alcohol content of 0.24%, three-times the legal limit. Silva, 42, had driven more than 30 miles in the opposite lane while several police officers had tried to stop or ram his vehicle.
Silva was a repeat criminal, an illegal immigrant with a criminal record dating back to 1994, which included charges for burglary and assaulting a police officer. He was convicted of a conspiracy charge, but missed his hearing sentence and lived as a fugitive. He was briefly apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2012. Silva-Corona also died in the crash.
On June 13, 2016 Tierra Stansberry was murdered by an illegal alien. Johnny Sanchez set 2 fires to the place where Tierra was at. Not only did he murder Tierra that night but along with her murder he also murdered 4 others and attempted to kill 2 more. A jury ruled on 5 counts of murder, 2 counts attempted murder and numerous counts of arson. All jury members found him GUILTY of his cruel and heinous crimes.
Tierra would be alive if existing immigration laws had been followed. Sanchez had been deported three times prior to this happening and just three days prior to his malicious crimes he was in police custody.
Texas authorities have arrested and charged an illegal immigrant in connection with the April 21 death of a 3-month-old baby.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said Melvin Jesus Aquino Enriquez, 26 is charged with injury to a child and assault-family violence.
Authorities initially responded to reports of an injured child at the home where Enriquez was residing at the 25000 block of Needham Road in Porter on April 14 and promptly initiated a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the child's injuries.
The baby was hospitalized but ultimately "succumbed to" injuries on April 24. The MCSO Special Victims Unit is awaiting autopsy results to "further determine the circumstances leading to the untimely and devastating death of the child," at which point officials will determine whether "appropriate additional charges" are warranted, the sheriff's office said.
Illegal Immigrant wanted by law enforcement for the killings of five Texas neighbors – including a 9-year-old boy – had entered the US illegally and been deported by immigration officials at least four times, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement source said.
The suspect, identified by ICE as Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, was first removed by an immigration judge in March 2009, the ICE source told CNN on Monday.
“At an unknown time and location, Perez-Torres unlawfully reentered the United States, and was apprehended and removed several more times by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in September 2009, January 2012, and July 2016,” the source said seemingly stemmed from an ordinary encounter.
Kayla Hamilton, was raped and strangled
inside her Frederick, Maryland, home on July 27, 2022.
Nobody at the border did their job and checked his background. If the feds had properly screened the suspect, they would have realized he was a member of the gang — disqualifying him from entry into the United States.
All they had to do was make one phone call to El Salvador to know that he was an MS-13 gang member on the wanted list.
Tammy Nobles, the mother of 20-year-old Kayla, argues in her $100 million lawsuit that both the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services failed her daughter by allowing the unidentified migrant into the country without confirming his identity.
The Biden Administration’s dangerous immigration policies, as well as the soft on crime policies of the 9th Circuit State Attorney’s Office (Orange and Osceola counties), have once again resulted in the needless deaths of innocent Floridians. On March 10, 2022, a man named Jean R. Macean, a citizen of Haiti and an illegal immigrant, was taken into custody for the murder of Terry and Brenda Aultman and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Macean had previously been arrested in Orange County prior to the murders, but the charges were inexplicably dropped by the State Attorney’s Office under former State Attorney Aramis Ayala. Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young described these killings as “one of the most vicious attacks I’ve ever seen in my 20 years.”DeSantis.
Montgomery County Fire spokesman Pete Piringer says 33-year-old Sander Cohen is one of the two who were killed. He was a Lieutenant with the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department and a Maryland State Police Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office Deputy Chief.
The second officer has been identified as 36-year-old Supervisory Special FBI Agent Carlos Wolff, who is an 11-year FBI veteran.
Officials say Special Agent Wolff died after being taken to Suburban Hospital. Deputy Chief State Fire Marshal Cohen died at the scene.
Montgomery County police said the multi-vehicle crash happened on southbound I-270 between Falls and Montrose roads in the Rockville area at about 10 p.m.
Carlos Wolff, 33, and a Supervisory Special FBI Agent was hit and killed by an illegal alien. Carlos had been in a single vehicle accident. Deputy Chief Fire Marshall Sander Cohen had stopped behind Carlos to help him. As the two men were waiting on the shoulder for help to arrive, Roberto Garza Palacios hit and killed them both.
However, Montgomery County MD refused to hand Palacios over to ICE due to immigration laws that had changed in Maryland. Palacios was then fined $280 for hitting Carlos and Sander, and is currently out free on a $15,000 bail.
Carlos left behind his wife of twelve years, Marla, and their two young children, who were 2 and 7 years old at the time of the accident.
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