Dem Rep Katie Porter says murder of Laken Riley by illegal immigrant shouldn’t shape policy

Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally, has been arrested and charged with the crime.

He had previously been detained at the Southern border and released by the Border Patrol and arrested in New York City and released.

During an interview Monday with CNN host Erin Burnett, Porter, who is running for Senate, said, “Well, I think what a horrible tragedy like this happens, I think whenever we‘re dealing with violent crime, there is a sense of outrage, of sadness and of loss, but I think the important thing to focus on is any one instance shouldn‘t shape our overall immigration policy, which has so many different facets, including economic choices about what workers to allow and how to create prosperity in America.”

The California representative added, “So the situation is tragic and it‘s a loss and it‘s important to acknowledge that, but also to recognize all the other how all the other parts of immigration policy fit together.”

Porter continued, “I think we‘ve seen under Title 42 and some other policies that efforts to simply quote, close the border is not really solving the longer-term problem, which is that we have not put the resources or the policies at the border so we have all different kinds of chaos and challenges from not having enough immigration judges to not investing in technology that can help a screen for fentanyl, which I voted for, but we need to do more on recognizing that we haven‘t kept our promise to Dreamers.”

“All of these things come together to create the kinds of chaotic immigration policies we see.”

Democratic President Joe Biden has yet to address the murder himself though a White House spokesman said Monday that the murderer should be "held accountable" and then referred the reporters to ICE and state law enforcement.