Members of the Biden administration continue to face significant scrutiny following the recent criminal trial that found Laken Riley's killer guilty. 

Fox News reports that many continue to lay the blame for this murder - and others - on Biden administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Vice President Kamala Harris, the administration's "border czar."

The claim is that it is the administration's lax border policies that gave illegal immigrants, such as Riley's killer, the opportunity to commit the murder.

There would appear to be widespread agreement that the administration, at the very least, is not without blame.

Background

Last week, Jose Ibarra was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

"Tren de Aragua gang member Jose Ibarra was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for the vicious murder of promising nursing student Laken Riley in a case that ignited a national firestorm over the Biden administration’s open border policy and coddling of illegal immigrants," the New York Post reports.

The outlet continues, "The sentencing was meted out a little more than two hours after Judge Patrick Haggard announced the guilty verdict on all charges on the fourth day of the Athens, Georgia, murder trial, in which 29 witnesses were called by the prosecution."

Many called for Ibara to face the death penalty, but it did not happen thanks to the "progressive" district attorney who oversaw the case.

Athens-Clarke District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez is against the death penalty.

An important unanswered question

Although Ibara has been found guilty and sentenced for Riley's murder, there are still some questions about the situation that remain unanswered. One such question is how Ibara got the opportunity to carry out the murder.

Fox reports, "In a Georgia courtroom on Monday, during Ibarra's trial, prosecutors displayed a photo of a Delta Air Lines ticket from New York to Atlanta, dated Sept. 28, 2023, for Ibarra . . ."

The big question is how he got that ticket, and the Biden administration is refusing to answer it.

It is generally known that the Biden administration has been flying illegal immigrants to various parts of the country, but it is not known whether the administration played a role in Ibara's flight.

This, no doubt, will be one of the things that the Republican Congress will be looking into. They have made it clear that they intend to investigate the Biden administration's southern border policies during the next Congress.