Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The just-enacted Laken Riley Act goes a long way toward demonstrating the failure of America’s decades-old border-control system and the manifest refusal of border-control advocates to accept personal responsibility for the failure of their own system. The law was enacted in response to the 2024 murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal immigrant named Jose Ibarra. … Proponents of the law, including President Trump, say that the reason that Ibarra illegally entered the United States is because there were ‘open borders’ under President Biden’s administration. If Biden had not had a policy of ‘open borders,’ they say, Ibarra would not have been able to enter the United States and Riley would be alive today. … There is one big thing wrong, however, with that justification: It’s false.” (01/30/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/01/30/laken-riley-and-the-failure-of-americas-border-control-system/