House Speaker Johnson chastises Biden for apology to Laken Riley murder suspect: 'What an embarrassment'
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House Speaker Mike Johnson ripped President Biden for "cowering to his base" in apologizing to "an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley."
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At the urging of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Biden, during an off-script moment in his State of the Union address on Thursday, decried Riley's killing by "an illegal." The president later backtracked during his interview with Capehart, saying he should have instead used the word "undocumented" to describe Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who was out for a run on the University of Georgia campus last month.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Ibarra illegally crossed the border near El Paso, Texas, and was released into the U.S. for further processing in September 2022. He was later arrested and released in New York City for allegedly endangering a child about a year later.