The brutal murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is the latest in a string of violent crimes allegedly committed by immigrants who were released into the United States after crossing the southern border illegally under President Joe Biden.
More than 6 million illegal immigrants have come across the U.S.-Mexico border since 2021 and have been arrested by federal police. Overwhelmed Border Patrol agents and facilities have been forced at leadership’s discretion to release countless immigrants into the country rather than deport them.
Although immigrants arrested for crossing illegally are supposed to undergo background checks, those checks only scan against the FBI terrorist watch list and U.S. criminal databases, leaving an individual’s criminal record in other countries unknown.
Crime committed by illegal immigrants is not a new phenomenon. The 2015 shooting death of Californian Kate Steinle led San
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