In March, a Venezuelan national and undocumented migrant identified as Jose Antonio Ibarra brutally beat Riley to death. At that time, Riley was jogging on the University of Georgia campus when Ibarra dragged her into the bushes and murdered her.
According to the records from Customs and Border Protection, Ibarra was first arrested near the southern border on Sept. 8, 2022, for illegally entering the country. However, he was immediately released due to insufficient detention space and took refuge in New York City.
From here, Ibarra was even able to find employment as an Uber driver. But then, he was also apprehended in the state for endangering a child while riding a gas-powered moped without a helmet in 2023 but was released again, only to flee to Georgia and murder Riley.
The Department of Homeland Security ended the "Remain in Mexico" policy, officially known as the "Migrant Protection Protocols," in August 2022. The policy required undocumented migrants to await court hearings outside the United States. In short, this lax approach had something to do with the release of Ibarra into the United States.
Then, the trail for Ibarra resumed in the city of Athens on Nov. 18, and Homan, who formerly served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for five months during the first Trump administration, lambasted the outgoing Biden administration and its approach to immigration enforcement.
"If Trump was president, and he did get in the United States, and he got arrested in New York for a crime before he committed this murder, he would never have been released to the streets," Homan explained. "He would've been turned over to ICE."
Additionally. Homan argued that stricter enforcement and cooperation between ICE and local authorities could have prevented Riley's death. Therefore, he concluded: "So this administration has blood on their hands."
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Homan added during the interview that the case of Riley is just "one of many" cases that have occurred under the Biden administration.
"She's just one of many, Griff. You know we've heard many stories under this administration that's happened, and there's many more we don't know about, 'cause sometimes sanctuary cities don't capture their foreign national citizenship, so it's not in a report, and they never contact ICE," Homan said. (Related: Incoming Trump "border czar" to conduct worksite RAIDS for busting migrant sex, labor trafficking networks.)
In line with this, Homan vowed to push for renewed efforts to defund sanctuary cities and strengthen the presence of ICE in such jurisdiction.
"Look, if they're not going to help us then we'll just double the manpower in those cities. They don't want ICE agents in their neighborhoods but they don't let ICE agents in the jail. They don't understand if you let us in the jail, that'll be less agents in your neighborhood," he said.
Homan also warned violent criminal organizations like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua that he will dismantle their operations once seated as the "border czar."
"Tren de Aragua, they're on notice. Their days of violence and bloodshed in this country are coming to an end very fast. My message to Tren de Aragua: My gang is bigger than your gang and we're [going to] take you out."
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