Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office says it’s “outrageous” that an illegal immigrant convicted of murdering Laken Riley would have done this Took a free flight from the Biden administration from the Big Apple before committing a gruesome murder.
The furious reaction came in the form of 26-year-old Jose Ibarra. Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole The murder of a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, sparked a national immigration debate on Wednesday.
“The latest revelations about how Laken Riley’s alleged killer got to Georgia are outrageous,” a spokesman for the Republican governor said. told the daily caller Just before the Tren de Aragua gang member was convicted.
Ibarra’s ex-roommate testified during his trial earlier this week that he flew from New York to Georgia after requesting a free flight to the Roosevelt Hotel migrant intake center in Manhattan.
Sources later told The Post that Ibarra was put on a taxpayer-funded flight from JFK to Atlanta, Georgia, last September — just six months before he hunted down and killed an Augusta University student.
Kemp’s office said they are now seeking answers from the Biden administration about how Ibarra reached the Peach State.
A Kemp spokesperson said, “While the Biden Administration continues to ignore our requests for accurate and detailed information on illegal border crossings and relocation efforts, Governor Kemp is positioned to do what Georgia needs to address the crisis at the border Which he can do.”
He said the governor has taken “decisive action such as deploying our National Guardsmen to the U.S. southern border and signing legislation strengthening Georgia’s reporting requirements for illegal immigrants arrested for crimes and a ban on sanctuary cities.” Has been done.”
The Roosevelt Hotel, where Ibarra apparently accepted the flight, was set up by the city as a temporary migrant entry center amid the Big Apple’s worsening asylum seeker crisis.
To help ease the crisis, the city set up a so-called “reticketing center” in October 2023 to provide migrants with federally funded one-way air tickets to anywhere in the world.
“In Manhattan, we requested a humanitarian flight to come here to Atlanta,” Ibarra’s former roommate, Rosabelly Flores-Bello, testified during the trial.
City Hall declined to comment to The Post but a source confirmed Ibarra’s taxpayer-funded flight.
In the wake of Ibarra’s sentencing, Kemp issued a statement saying justice had been served because he broke the Biden administration’s open border policy.
He said, “This criminal should never be allowed to enter our country, and he certainly should not be allowed to remain after brazenly breaking our laws.”
“The open border policy failed Laken Riley, and today’s decision is a reminder that the safety of our communities must remain our number one priority.”
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