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As folks filed into the Home chamber for the State of the Union Thursday evening, conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene shared buttons to honor Laken Riley.
Riley was a stupendous 22-year-old nursing pupil who was murdered by a Venezuelan unlawful on the College of Georgia campus final month.
The suspect entered the US at Biden's invitation for open borders.
Greene confronted Joe Biden as she entered the chamber and challenged him to “say your identify.”
Greene additionally offered a pin to Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas. Based on Inexperienced, Mayorkas refused to disclose his identify and in addition refused to simply accept the PIN.
I simply offered this pin to Secretary Mayorkas.
He refused to disclose his identify and in addition refused to simply accept the pin. pic.twitter.com/N9XyIeI2Ah
– Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) 8 March 2024
Throughout an look on CBS's “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Mayorkas refused to reply whether or not Riley's killer ought to have been deported.
In February, the Home of Representatives voted to question Mayorkas, the primary Cupboard member to be impeached in almost a century and a half and the primary sitting Cupboard secretary to face impeachment.
The impeachment movement, referred to as H. Res. 863, fees Secretary Mayorkas with excessive crimes and misdemeanors. Allegations throughout the decision embody “deliberate and systemic refusal to comply with the regulation” associated to the implementation of U.S. border coverage and a “breach of the general public belief.”
Though Biden finally talked about Laken throughout SOTU, he received his identify improper and referred to as him Lincoln. Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) criticized him for precisely calling his killer an “unlawful.”
The Home of Representatives on Thursday voted 251-170 to approve H.R. 7511, dubbed the 'Laken Riley Act,' which requires ICE to arrest and detain unlawful aliens like Laken Riley's killer when Till they’re faraway from America.