GA Voters Oust DA For County Where Laken Riley Was Murdered
The article reports on the recent ousting of Deborah Gonzalez, the District Attorney of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, by voters who were dissatisfied with her handling of sanctuary city policies and the murder of a local nursing student, Laken Riley. Gonzalez, a progressive supported by George Soros, faced backlash as she oversaw policies that allowed undocumented immigrants to remain unchallenged in the community. The election saw her lose to independent candidate Kalki Yalamanchili, who garnered approximately 60% of the vote.
The article highlights the tragic facts surrounding Riley’s murder at the hands of Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. Following the incident, concerns were raised about the efficacy of the county’s immigration policies, which had previously welcomed all immigrants regardless of status. The piece draws connections to the broader national debate on immigration policies and their implications for public safety, mentioning parallels with high-profile political figures such as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Bill Clinton.
the article illustrates voter sentiment towards law enforcement and sanctuary policies in the wake of crime, using Riley’s murder as a pivotal example that influenced the recent election outcome in Athens-Clarke County.
Georgia voters in Athens-Clarke County ousted their disgraced left-wing prosecutor who oversaw traitorous sanctuary city policies where 22-year-old Laken Riley was brutally murdered.
Athens-Clarke and Oconee County District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez lost to Independent Kalki Yalamanchili, who received roughly 60 percent of the vote, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.
Gonzalez, a self-described “progressive,” was first elected in 2020 after receiving backing from left-wing billionaire George Soros. Gonzalez was at the center of recent recall efforts spurred by residents who are angry that Gonzalez and other county officials allowed “illegal aliens to freely roam our county,” according to the Athens-Banner Herald.
The county (and country) was shaken to its core when Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, was brutally murdered while on a run on a wooded trail near her school. Authorities arrested Jose Antonio Ibarra the next day. Ibarra is an illegal immigrant who arrived to the states from Venezuela in 2022.
The Athens City Council passed a resolution in 2019 welcoming immigrants “of all statuses,” according to Fox 5 Atlanta. The city released a memo in December of 2023 stating Athens-Clarke County supports “undocumented” immigrants. Further, current county policy states the sheriff’s office will not enforce a 48-hour detainer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
“[If a] detainer is issued but is not accompanied by a federal warrant or court order signed by a federal magistrate or federal judge, [the illegal migrant] shall not be held solely on the ICE detainer,” the policy states, according to the report.
As my colleague Jordan Boyd previously reported, Ibarra was previously arrested in New York for “reckless endangerment of a child and acting in a manner injurious to a child.”
“After being locked up, Ibarra was able to bond out and flee to a county that bans law enforcement from asking about immigration status and even offers illegal border crossers legal aid,” Boyd wrote. “It was there that he took the life of an innocent American.”
Like Gonzalez, Vice President Kamala Harris also lost her race, in part due to her traitorous stance on the border crisis — a stance former President Bill Clinton acknowledged directly led to the murder of Riley.
“You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you? They made an ad about it, about a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened,” Clinton said.
But Harris claimed for years the border was secure and, as the border czar, turned a blind eye to the invasion.
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