Several U.S. senators are demanding solutions from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about why a Venezuelan migrant accused of killing 22-year-old Laken Riley, an Augusta University nursing pupil, was let into the U.S. within the first place.
A letter despatched by 10 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee requests solutions as to why Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was granted immigration parole into the United States.
Immigration parole ought to solely be granted on a “case-by-case” foundation, and provided that there’s an pressing humanitarian motive or important public profit justifying a grant of parole,” the letter states.
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University of Georgia murder suspect Jose Ibarra lived within a five-minute walk of the approximate scene where he allegedly murdered 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on Feb. 22. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital/ Laken Riley/ Jose Ibarra)
The senators are demanding a copy of Ibarra’s case file no later than March 8. Specifically, they want to see “what pressing humanitarian motive or important public profit justified the choice to grant him parole.”
“We have beforehand expressed important doubts as to how the Department has been capable of make lots of of hundreds of case-by-case determinations for parole yearly, however you’ve gotten assured Congress in your sworn prior testimony that the Department makes a person dedication for every particular person alien granted parole,” the letter to Mayorkas states. “Regarding using parole, you testified on November 8, 2023, ‘We make our resolution on case-by-case foundation. That should additionally apply to Ibarra’s grant of parole.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security.
Riley was allegedly murdered while running along dirt trails near Lake Herrick in Athens. She died from blunt force trauma to the head. Authorities have called the killing a “crime of alternative.”
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Laken Riley poses for a photo posted to Facebook. Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was found dead near a lake on campus Feb. 22. (Allyson Phillips/Facebook)
Ibarra is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another.
He entered the U.S. illegally in 2022, and was granted border “parole,” which allows noncitizens to temporarily enter the country due to an emergency or humanitarian reason, authorities have said.
He went to New York City, where he was arrested in August and “charged with performing in a fashion to injure a baby lower than 17, and a motorcar license violation,” according to U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement.
Laken Riley smiles for a photograph whereas working. Riley, a nursing pupil on the University of Georgia, was discovered lifeless close to a lake on campus Feb. 22. (Laken Riley/Instagram)
Fox News reported this week that Ibarra was fired from his dishwasher job on the University of Georgia after it was found he introduced a pretend inexperienced card to work within the eating corridor. He did not submit additional documentation and was fired with out being paid.
Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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