Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, grilled Biden administration Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday when it was revealed that his department released the illegal migrant who would go on to murder Laken Riley due to a purported “lack of detention capacity.”
The tense exchange came one day after the Democratic-controlled Senate voted to dismiss both charges of impeachment against Mayorkas, after only a few hours of proceedings.
The Washington Times reported Thursday that the Mayorkas-led Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Riley’s killer, Jose Ibarra, “into the U.S. because it lacked the detention space,” per the illegal Venezuelan migrant’s “confidential immigration file.”
Ibarra “was released under [Mayorkas’] power of parole, which is supposed to be used in limited cases and only when there is an urgent humanitarian need or a significant benefit to the public,” the Times added.
Hawley read Ibarra’s file in front of Mayorkas during a hearing on the Senate floor Thursday. Before Hawley did so, the secretary repeatedly refused to answer his questions relating to the horrific murder of Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student.
“Mr. Secretary, let’s just come back to Jose Ibarra if we can,” the senator said at the beginning of the exchange. “You know who that is? … You know what he did?”
“I know what he’s accused of doing,” Mayorkas answered.
“Which is?” Hawley asked.
“Murdering a young woman,” the secretary replied.
“And that wasn’t the first crime that he committed in this country? Was it?” Hawley pressed him. --->READ MORE HERE
The criminal illegal alien accused of killing Laken Riley was released into the U.S. in September of 2022 because the Department of Homeland Security lacked detention space, according to his immigration file.
Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley in February, was released under DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ power of parole, which is only supposed to be used “when there is an urgent humanitarian need or a significant benefit to the public,” the Washington Times reported.
Key parts of the file were read into the record Thursday during what started out as a Senate hearing on the Biden regime’s budget but turned into a heated on immigration, with GOP senators taking turns lambasting Mayorkas for allowing thousands of dangerous criminals into the country.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) argued that lack of detention space didn’t meet the standards for parole, so Mayorkas broke the law in releasing Ibarra.
“Now we all know that the reason he was paroled into this country is because of lack of detention capacity, which you and I both know is not a valid reason,” the senator said.
During a Senate hearing last week, Mayorkas suggested that Ibarra’s release into the U.S. was justified because the Homeland Security had no reason to detain him.
But the DHS Secretary has worked to gut ICE detention in favor of a “catch and release” policy at the border that allows hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to be released into the interior. Mayorkas has reportedly asked Congress to cut bed space in every budget he’s submitted.
In 2022, 2023 and 2024 he asked lawmakers to reduce bed space from 34,000 to 25,000. Congress rebuffed each of those and even upped the number to 41,500 beds in the new bill.
>Mr. Mayorkas‘ latest budget again calls for a cut, this time back down to 34,000.
Ibarra (pictured above) entered the U.S. on Sept. 8, 2022, and was quickly released on parole.
In July of 2023, when he reported to immigration authorities in New York and was fingerprinted, the results showed he had “a criminal history,” Mr. Hawley noted.
A couple months later, Ibarra was arrested in New York City on charges of injuring a child, but the case wasn’t prosecuted. --->READ MORE HERE
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