A bill that was inspired by the death of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley would require law enforcement to report illegal immigrants to provincial officials.
In response to the shooting of 22-year-old Laken Riley, a nursing scholar, whose death became embroiled in a broader debate over immigration policy after a person from Venezuela who entered the country fraudulently was accused of her death, Georgia legislators voted on Thursday to strengthen the state’s now stringent immigration rules.
The country’s House of Representatives gave final approval to a measure that may require local law enforcement to follow up on the immigration status of those in prison and work with national immigration officials in the violent last hours of the parliamentary program.
The policy was the result of Republican politicians ‘ pledge to intervene in response to the discovery of Ms. Riley’s body last month in a forested area on the University of Georgia school in Athens. Her dying rattled the area that is the residence of the country’s premier university, about 70 miles from Atlanta.
Republicans claim that her death demonstrates a loss by President Biden to effectively respond to an influx of immigrants. The circumstance immediately spread beyond Georgia.
Mr. Biden veering from his script and saying” an honest young woman who was killed by an illegal,” which sparked a backlash from progressive Democrats and immigration advocates, mainly because of his use of the term “illegal,” which they criticized as a dehumanizing disparaging.
