The Illegal Alien Murder of Laken Riley

Responses to her death explain the split of a nation

Last week illegal alien Jose Ibarra from Venezuela murdered nursing student Laken Riley at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Ibarra attacked her as she went for a jog on campus. She apparently fought back—forcefully—before he crushed her skull and dragged her body into the woods nearby to conceal her murder. Her death, and the polarized reactions to it, frame the irreconcilable split in our nation today and explain the surging popularity of comeback kid Donald Trump, who is rapidly becoming the most likely next President of the United States.