by Frank Holmes, reporter
In February, a Venezuelan illegal alien who belonged to a violent international criminal cartel stalked and murdered a young American nursing student.
But you wouldn’t know that if you watched the Fake News media.
As they did with the Hunter Biden laptop, Joe Biden’s sexual accuser, and every scandal in Kamala Harris’ life, the media tried their best to bury crimes committed by any illegal immigrant—especially violent crimes against innocent American young ladies.
A Georgia jury convicted Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela, of murder and sentenced him to life in prison last Wednesday.
The 26-year-old belongs to the murderous transnational criminal gang Tren de Aragua. The same Venezuelan-based cartel that has claimed control over numerous apartments buildings in the greater Denver metro area and expanded into nearly every city in the United States.
But you wouldn’t even know it happened if you watched MSNBC, the favorite network of the Obama and Biden-Harris administrations. Members of each regime have been known to text the hosts on the air.
MSNBC’s prime time shows did not mention the trial at all. The other liberal network, CNN, also barely touched the story during its peak viewing hours.
CNN’s entire “prime time coverage of the case amounted to a single, 161-second news brief on the Monday night edition of CNN’s Laura Coates Live,” according to an analysis from the Media Reseach Center’s website, Newsbusters.org.
During the few times the networks mentioned the killer, they buried the fact that he should never have been in the United States.
“Across 40 relevant segments on CNN, only 23 of them (57.5%) included any mention that Ibarra was an illegal alien. The situation was much the same on MSNBC, with just nine out of 15 segments (60%) providing details about Ibarra’s immigration status,” said Newsbusters.
Of course, Ibarra illegally crossed the U.S. border with Mexico on September 8, 2022, and was immediately caught by U.S. law enforcement officials at the border…but thanks to Biden-era “norms,” they had to let him go.
Agents claimed they let Ibarra slip through their fingers, because they did not have any space to hold the illegal criminal alien…but federal records show they had 8,000 beds available for Ibarra to cool his heels before catching a plane back to Caracas.
As if that weren’t enough, in July 2023, Ibarra actually showed up to a hearing with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where he was fingerprinted…and the prints showed he was a criminal alien.
Two months later, police arrested Ibarra for acting in a manner that may have harmed a child…but let him go again.
Instead, they gave him a work permit in December and placed him on a “humanitarian flight” from New York City to Georgia.
Then this February, when Ibarra saw Laken Riley—a 22-year-old nursing student—going for a run, his criminal instincts took over.
He stalked and murdered her in cold blood, crushing out all her potential and all the people she could have helped.
And when MSNBC did mention Ibarra, it was almost worse than keeping silent.
“Laken Riley’s killer never stood a chance,” read the official headline from MSNBC. “For all the political controversy surrounding Jose Ibarra, the outcome of the trial was never in doubt.”
“No, Laken Riley never stood a chance,” responded Liz Murrill, the Republican attorney general of Louisiana. “She was betrayed by those who swore to defend the Constitution. This monster should never have been in our country.”
She wasn’t the only representative upset.
“Laken Riley’s family gets justice for their daughter’s death and MSNBC paints the killer as the victim,” said Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn.
“Laken Riley’s killer is now the victim, according to MSNBC,” agreed Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah.
No, Laken Riley never stood a chance. She was betrayed by those who swore to defend the Constitution. This monster should never have been in our country. pic.twitter.com/y81C1Gdh1F
— Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) November 22, 2024
After massive backlash, MSNBC changed the headline…but it showed viewers what the left-wing network thinks of American citizens.
The Left has no problem saying the names of victims when it wants to make them celebrities.
BLM protesters chanted the name of George Floyd as they torched whole blocks and police stations in blue cities around the country in 2020.
They repeated falsehoods about the innocence of Michael Brown.
And even President Joe Biden eventually gave in and tried to say Riley’s name during this year’s State of the Union Address in March.
After a showdown with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Biden said he had sympathy for “Lincoln Riley, an innocent girl who was killed by an illegal—but how many people have been killed by legals?”
Biden refers to Laken Riley — a 22-year-old Georgia student murdered by an illegal alien his administration let in — as "Lincoln." pic.twitter.com/oVokg8n2IX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 8, 2024
Biden later apologized—for calling the murderous gang-banger an “illegal.”
The modern Left cannot condemn the death of an American without condemning America’s borders or presenting the killer as a victim.