The fallout from the tragic death of a 22-year-old University of Georgia student named Laken Riley continues to reverberate through the national conversation on immigration and the border crisis. Her murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over border security and immigration policy.
Republicans have responded to the horrific murder with condemnations of the Biden administration and its failure to employ solutions to the crisis at the southern border. GOP lawmakers recently passed a critical measure that could help to solve the problem, but Democrats are not on board with the idea.
This is especially true of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who recently accused the GOP of politicizing Riley’s demise. During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” he slammed Republicans for their response to the tragedy.
“I can tell…