President Joe Biden speaks during the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. to describe the suspected killer of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley during his annual State of the Union address Thursday night.
I shouldn't have used illegal, it's undocumented," the president said Saturday during an interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. Riley, a 22-year-old college student, was found dead on Feb. 22 after going for a morning run on the University of Georgia campus. Her death is now at the forefront of the U.S. immigration debate.is allegedly a migrant from Venezuela. Authorities previously apprehended Ibarra for unlawfully crossing the U.S. border, as well as acting in a way to injure a minor and shoplifting.
Before Biden's address even began on Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., caught Biden as he made his way to the podium to give him a button that read, "Say her name, Laken Riley." Greene demanded Biden "say her name."When Biden addressed immigration in his speech, Greene heckled him from the crowd, prompting an apparently ad-libbed response where Biden did say her name and held up the pin calling her an "innocent woman who was killed by an illegal.