The U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Laken Riley Act” on Thursday‚ a bill that would require federal officials to arrest illegal immigrants who have been charged with theft in the United States. By a vote of 251-170‚ the House approved the bill that is named after Laken Riley‚ the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered allegedly by an illegal immigrant while she was out for a run last month. All voting Republicans and 37 Democrats helped pass the bill while 170 Democrats voted against it. “170 House Democrats just voted against the Laken Riley Act‚ refusing to require the detention and deportation of illegal immigrants who have been caught committing a crime‚” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) posted to X. “Sadly‚ if these Democrats have their way‚ there will be more victims like Laken Riley.” In particular‚ the “Laken Riley Act” would “require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft‚ and for other purposes.” “IT’S OFFICIAL: The Laken Riley Act has passed the House of Representatives on a bipartisan basis. 37 Democrats joined all Republicans in support of this bill and condemning Joe Biden’s handling of our southern border!” said Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA)‚ who introduced the legislation. “I now urge the Senate to take up this bill immediately. Please help us ensure justice for Laken and give ICE more tools to detain and deport criminal illegal aliens before they commit more serious crimes.” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) suggested to Fox News that most Democrats opposed the legislation over concerns about the “rights” of illegal immigrants who are taken into custody. “To have someone detained without that due process‚ I think is un-American‚” he said. Riley’s suspected murderer‚ 26-year-old Venezuelan Jose Ibarra‚ was reportedly let go after being detained at the southern border due to a lack of space at the detention center. He was then arrested in New York in August 2023 after he was caught driving an unregistered car with a 5-year-old inside. According to a police report‚ a few months later‚ Ibarra and his brother Diego allegedly stole food and clothing from a Walmart in Athens‚ Georgia. They were both given a citation for misdemeanor shoplifting and let go. The “Laken Riley Act” would also give the attorney general of a state or another authorized state officer standing to bring an action against the U.S. attorney general or secretary of Homeland Security “alleging an action or decision by the Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security under this section to release any alien or grant bond or parole to any alien that harms such State or its residents …” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The bill‚ H.R. 7511‚ states‚ “The Biden administration should not have released Laken Riley’s alleged murderer into the United States; The Biden administration should have arrested and detained Laken Riley’s alleged murderer after he was charged with crimes in New York‚ New York‚ and Athens‚ Georgia; President Biden should publicly denounce his administration’s immigration policies that resulted in the murder of Laken Riley; and President Biden should prevent another murder like that of Laken Riley by ending the catch-and-release of illegal aliens‚ increasing immigration enforcement‚ detaining and removing criminal aliens‚ reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy‚ ending his abuse of parole authority‚ and securing the United States borders.” Hank Berrien contributed to this report. 

From a financial perspective‚ a small commercial and residential district called Buckhead is maybe the single most important neighborhood in all of Atlanta. Taxes from Buckhead pay for roughly 40% of the city’s annual revenues‚ which isn’t surprising‚ because it’s a relatively affluent area in Georgia. But starting in 2020‚ like so many other cities‚ Atlanta chose to demonize police officers. So inevitably‚ Buckhead became extremely dangerous. Shootouts and carjackings became common‚ even in broad daylight‚ at the central mall. Instead of protecting their cash cow in Buckhead‚ officials in Atlanta allowed the mob to run rampant. In response‚ the residents of the town attempted to do something radical‚ at least by the standards of modern politics. They tried to secede from the city and establish their own independent government — one that actually respected police officers‚ and paid them well. The plan nearly worked‚ but about a year ago ten Republican state senators in Georgia joined with Democrats to prevent it. Apparently‚ there is bipartisan disapproval in Georgia of any proposal that involves enforcing the law. That’s one of the few things you can get both Democrats and Republicans to agree on. So Buckhead’s secession was shot down. At the time‚ it was easy to dismiss Buckhead’s effort as a lark — as the vanity project of a few affluent conservatives living in gated communities in northwest Atlanta. And indeed that’s what most of the media did‚ as you’d expect. Vox called the idea a product of the “white power structure” in Atlanta. Politico mocked the secession effort as “mighty.” To the extent that the mainstream‚ Left-wing corporate press talked about Buckhead‚ it was to emphasize that the residents of Buckhead are radicals — insurrectionists‚ even — who have nothing in common with most of America. But that wasn’t true. As NewsNation pointed out‚ Buckhead was just one of several municipalities throughout the country that were thinking of seceding. Watch: So it’s not just Buckhead‚ as it turns out. Counties in Long Island‚ Idaho‚ Oregon‚ Illinois‚ and San Bernardino‚ were thinking of doing the same thing. That looks like a pattern — but it’s one that didn’t get much attention at the time. Now we’re learning that this pattern is far more widespread than it may have appeared.  Researchers at YouGov have found that roughly quarter of U.S. adults — 23% — currently want their state to secede from the United States. Only 51% of respondents opposed secession‚ while another 27% were unsure. At the state level‚ the highest percentage in favor of secession was in Alaska‚ where 36% of adults want out. The next highest is California‚ at 29%‚ followed by 28% of New Yorkers. Oklahomans are at 28%. Nebraskans‚ Georgians‚ Floridians‚ and Washingtonians aren’t far behind.  WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show In a country that had any interest in self-preservation whatsoever‚ this poll would be leading every primetime television news broadcast. There would be all kinds of experts trying to figure out what could possibly explain these figures‚ and what our elected representatives could do about it. These polls are yet more evidence that Americans have nothing fundamentally in common anymore. We aren’t bound by race‚ creed‚ or ancestry like people in most other countries are. In lieu of that‚ we used to have shared principles‚ a shared basic belief system to unify us. We don’t have that anymore. We can’t even agree that “all lives matter‚” which you’d think would be a pretty basic starting point. We can’t agree that only women have babies. We can’t agree on basically any fundamental fact of reality.  Meanwhile a major political party demonizes white people as a matter of course. Our politicians seem far more concerned about the sovereignty of foreign states than they care about our own. We are people from different philosophical universes all crammed together‚ and that’s reflected at every level of our leadership. The other reason that secession is so popular is that people rightly feel the federal government does not have our interests at heart. When the government prioritizes citizens of other countries over our own‚ people become disenfranchised. There’s certainly no sense of loyalty to the federal government‚ as it clearly has no loyalty to us.  Maybe no story in the past few days has made that clearer than the murder of Laken Riley. She was a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University‚ who was jogging on February 22nd at the campus of the University of Georgia. Watch: As you saw‚ very quickly‚ the authorities identified that the suspected killer was an illegal immigrant. That’s an important detail‚ but most of the major media simply ignored it‚ or downplayed it. For example‚ the Associated Press reported that the accused killer was an‚ “Athens resident.” They also refer to the suspect as a “26-year-old man.” But they don’t report that he’s an illegal alien until the seventh paragraph of their story. That’s because they’re not interested in talking about the fact that the Biden administration deliberately lets killers like this illegal alien into this country.  As the New York Post reported‚ citing sources at DHS who spoke to NewsNation‚ the suspected killer of this college student‚ “crossed into El Paso‚ Texas‚ from Venezuela in September 2022 …. He had been released due to a lack of detention space.” This is the excuse that the feds use now when they don’t want to enforce immigration law. They want us to believe that the jails are full of illegal aliens they’re detaining‚ which is of course complete nonsense. And that wasn’t the only opportunity to deport this accused killer.  Again‚ quoting from the Post: “Months before Ibarra allegedly killed Riley‚ he was apparently arrested in New York for endangering a child. … Police sources in New York confirmed a man by the same name and age as the Georgia suspect was arrested in the Big Apple last year after allegedly endangering the welfare of a 5-year-old.” In other words‚ the murder of Laken Riley was maybe the single most preventable crime that has ever occurred in the history of the state of Georgia. All the feds had to do was enforce the law at any point in the past two years and throw this degenerate killer out of the country. But they didn’t do that. Why not? The mayor of Athens — Kelly Girtz — has offered something of an explanation. Instead of apologizing to the family of Laken Riley‚ or explaining why authorities didn’t enforce immigration law‚ the mayor proceeded to deliver a lecture about Donald Trump‚ and the importance of treating migrant killers with the dignity they supposedly deserve. This is one of the most repulsive press conferences you’ll ever see. Here’s part of it: Here is the Mayor of Athens‚ GA telling us we must respect the dignity of migrants‚ and tries to deflect to Trump and Charlottesville Laken Riley was just beaten to death under his sanctuary city policies pic.twitter.com/qkD4iqTvIm — Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 28‚ 2024 This is the exact kind of thinking that has festered for many years in this country. It’s why women like Laken Riley are dead today. At every opportunity — even when they’re confronted with murdered college students — politicians like Kelly Girtz insist that the problem isn’t with policy. They claim that the real problem is rhetoric. People like Donald Trump are too mean to Mexicans‚ apparently. You’re supposedly too xenophobic and uncultured to understand what’s happening. But as the bodies pile up‚ that position is becoming completely untenable. Jason Rantz reported last night that an illegal immigrant who was arrested for killing a Washington State trooper (by getting intoxicated and then hitting the trooper on the side of the road) was previously arrested in a domestic violence case several years ago. Rantz reports that authorities suspected this person was in the country illegally‚ but they couldn’t act.  Here’s what Rantz reported:  Two days after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed Democrats’ sanctuary state legislation into law‚ Raul Benitez Santana‚ who is accused of killing a Washington State Patrol trooper on a state highway last Saturday‚ accepted a plea agreement for a domestic violence incident years earlier. He was in this country illegally at the time. Court documents indicate officials may have‚ or should have‚ suspected his status as an illegal immigrant. But because Washington State was a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens‚ the authorities couldn’t do anything with this information. They had to allow this domestic abuser to stay in this country‚ where ultimately he would be accused of murdering a state trooper. And by the way — even after this illegal alien killed that state trooper‚ the local media still ran cover for him‚ just as they ran cover for the suspected murderer of Laken Riley. For example‚ here’s how the local station KOMO reported the story of the state trooper’s death: “Trooper killed in three-vehicle I-5 crash identified‚ Lynnwood man in custody.” Not “illegal alien.” Not “domestic abuser.” Instead‚ he’s a “Lynwood man‚” just like Laken Riley’s killer was an “Athens resident.” The corporate press will do everything they can to run cover for killers — at least‚ as long as those killers are foreigners in this country illegally‚ and as long as they’re killing white people. Their calculation is that people will shut up and take all of this‚ in the name of “tolerance.” Whatever their motivation is — whether they just want to ensure their political survival‚ whether they want to bring about demographic replacement‚ or both — it isn’t really important. As a practical matter‚ the effects of these policies are finally proving to be far too destructive for most Americans to tolerate. As illegal aliens continue to indiscriminately murder American citizens — from college students to state troopers — more and more people are looking to Buckhead as a model. That doesn’t mean they’ll secede‚ necessarily. But it does mean that‚ for the first time since the Civil War‚ millions of Americans are thinking about it. 

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