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The Exploitation of Crime News Proves Fundamentalism Isn’t Christlike
If anything can become an excuse for hate, it means we’re forgetting about love
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered on February 22nd, 2024 while jogging on the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens. The killer, Jose Ibarra, 26, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the maximum possible, on November 20th, 2024.
The fact that this horrific crime was carried out by an undocumented immigrant soon “a for immigration reform from many conservatives, including President-elect Donald Trump”, who released a statement following the verdict, “our hearts will always be with” Riley. He also said it’s “time to secure our border, and remove these criminals and thugs from our Country, so nothing like this can happen again!"
About Trump and the Republican Party’s political exploitation of cases like Riley’s, by Asawin Suebsaeng features a moving interview of the mother of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old studying at the University of Iowa who was murdered near her home on July 18th, 2018 by undocumented migrant Cristhian Bahena Rivera, later to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
