Tom Homan chokes up over Laken Riley murder as he slams sanctuary city leaders: ‘Shame on you!’
President-elect Trump’s incoming border czar Tom Homan became visibly emotional Wednesday night as he talked about the heart-breaking evidence of Laken Riley’s final moments and the desperate attempts to revive her after she was brutally murdered by an illegal Venezuelan migrant earlier this year.
“This young lady is dead and I want every mayor, every governor of a sanctuary jurisdiction to listen to that tape,” the normally hard-boiled career cop and federal agent said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
“Listen to this young girl fight for her life, fight for her breath, trying to survive, terrified. I want you to understand what she went through.”
He slammed the the mayors and governors of sanctuary jurisdictions who help protect illegal migrants like Jose Ibarra, who was convicted and sentenced to life without parole on Wednesday for Laken’s brutal murder.
“It could’ve been prevented,” Homan said.
He added: “For those governors and mayors who say they’re going to stop Tom Homan or stop President Trump, shame on you!”
The heartbreaking video showed Sgt. Kenneth Maxwell of the University of Georgia Police Department finding Riley’s motionless body 50 feet off a running trail near campus, with her shirt pulled up and her torso exposed.
“I found her! Ma’am, ma’am. Ma’am. I need EMS immediately. Ma’am, ma’am, ma’am. She’s down, she’s not breathing!” Maxwell is heard saying in the video.
“I’m not getting any pulse. She’s stiff,” the officer is heard saying on tape as he attempted to revive Riley’s lifeless body.
The 22-year-old college student had been on a run when Ibarra — a member of Tren de Aragua and an illegal migrant from Venezuela — attempted to rape her. When Riley fought back against her savage attacker, he bashed her head with a rock and choked her to death, prosecutors said.
Homan bemoaned the fact that previous border enforcement policies could have saved Laken’s life — and that leaders failed to stop Ibarra again and again.
“The government failed the Riley family,” Homan said. “If Trump was president, [Ibarra] would be sitting in Mexico under the remain in Mexico program.”
The soon-to-be border czar also explained that Ibarra’s previous arrest in New York for endangering a child would have been enough to have him detained before he was ever able to make it to Georgia — where he arrived via plane on the taxpayers’ dime to commit his heinous crime.
“If he did get to New York, and was arrested for injury of a child in New York, you’d be able to arrest him because the priorities under Trump were, if you were in the country illegally, you’re a target,” Homan explained.
He added that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas watered down immigration enforcement priorities so much that even endangering a child wouldn’t be enough to have the illegal migrant detained into ICE’s custody.
Homan also recalled many instances where utterly preventable crimes against vulnerable people due to negligent border policies, including a 5-year-old boy who he found dead from heat exhaustion in the back of a tractor-trailer rig.
“I’ve seen so much tragedy. I’ve talked to hundreds of angel moms and dads who bury their children because they’re killed by illegal aliens, this is just the latest,” he told Fox host Laura Ingraham.
“I’ve talked to little girls as young as nine year old girls that were raped multiple times by members of the cartel, when you look in her eyes everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her soul, and her life will never be the same. I’m tired of it.”
As he prepares to take the helm of immigration enforcement as border czar in January, Homan is warning sanctuary city politicians that he won’t be deterred.
“Your responsibility is to protect your communities, and that’s what we want to do, protect your community,” he said.
