Based on the records obtained by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Laken Riley’s killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal migrant from Venezuela, was illegally released on parole, according to US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records.
Sen. Graham disclosed this information during a Judiciary Committee hearing last April 17 and blasted Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas for lying to the committee that he doesn’t know why Ibarra was paroled from a federally controlled immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas.
Mr. Graham thundered, “It’s in your own file!”
“How can you testify before the country you didn’t know how the guy got into the country when literally at the same moment I’m giving you a document he was admitted into the country for lack of capacity at El Paso?”
Graham, a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, made his exposition hours before the Senate began their impeachment trial of Mayorkas for failing to uphold the country’s immigration laws, including the detention of inadmissible aliens in the United States.
The lawmaker further said that one of the DHS’ violations was granting Ibarra parole “due to detention capacity.”
“The law is clear. You cannot parole someone because you don’t have space.”
Graham further remarked that immigration parole was only granted in cases of “urgent humanitarian reason or significant public benefit” and required the authorization of the DHS Secretary.
“If this is not Exhibit A of a broken immigration system, what would be?” he questioned.
According to the lawmaker, upon his parole in 2022, Ibarra was subsequently arrested and released for separate crimes before he murdered Riley.
His first arrest was in September 2023 for endangering a minor. The following month, October 2023, Ibarra was arrested for shoplifting and other theft charges in Athens, Georgia.
He was re-arrested in December 2023 for failing to appear in court on the previous charges.
Before this, Sec. Mayorkas testified during a hearing on the DHS’ 2025 budget request by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Mayorkas argued that the release of Ibarra was because “there was no derogatory information of which we were aware in our holding to compel the detention of this individual.”
In fact, during the Senate hearing on April 13, it was exposed that there were 8,000 detention beds available at the time of Ibarra’s release, proving that the DHS can put the criminal on hold based on his previous records.
As a result, months after his release, Ibarra was arrested again for the murder of the 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia.
Aside from Ibarra, Biden’s DHS released Mohammed Kharwin, an Afghan terrorist, in March 2023. He was a member of Hezb-e-Islami (HIG) and on the federal government’s “Terrorist Watch List.”
The HIG, according to records, killed nine American soldiers, including civilians, from 2013 to 2015.
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Author: The Raging Patriot
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