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On Wednesday, the illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But justice is far from served because the bureaucrats, politicians, and officials who deliberately let Jose Ibarra into this country illegally are still sitting comfortably at swanky Washington, D.C., dinners, sipping their cocktails while the blood of innocent Americans is on their hands.

Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan, illegally entered the country in 2022 near El Paso. Despite breaking the law, Ibarra was permitted to stay in this country allegedly due to lack of detention space. His arrival in this country was no accident — it was the direct result of the Biden-Harris administration’s reckless policies.

In President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ rush to dismantle every effective border measure from the Trump era, they opened the floodgates for criminal invaders like Ibarra. Biden ended the Trump-era declaration of a national emergency at our southern border. Biden halted border wall construction. He has permitted nearly half a million “inadmissible aliens” to roam the country with “little or no vetting,” according to the House Committee on Homeland Security.

Then, Ibarra’s path to Georgia was facilitated by the very same government officials who should have been working to keep him out. After illegally entering the country and arriving in New York City, Ibarra, along with fellow illegal immigrants, requested a free flight out of the city, according to the testimony of Ibarra’s former roommate Rosebeli Flores-Bello. Ibarra was staying at the Roosevelt Hotel on the taxpayer’s dime.

According to the New York Post, which cited city sources, Ibarra “enjoyed the taxpayer-funded flight from Kennedy Airport in Queens to Atlanta, Ga., in September 2023.”

Ibarra’s elder brother, Diego Ibarra, encouraged his brother to leave Manhattan and come down to Georgia. Diego was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2023 in El Paso, Texas, and was “processed for immediate removal, but was released to New York City” after making an asylum claim.

Notably, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required illegal immigrants to wait in Mexico as their asylum cases were being heard. Mayorkas asserted that the program had “endemic” “flaws,” “impos[ed] substantial and unjustifiable human costs,” and didn’t provide people like Diego Ibarra, brother of an illegal murderer, the “fair process and humanitarian protections that all persons deserve.”

But those supposed “flaws” are nothing compared to the havoc that Biden and Mayorkas’ decisions unleashed on this country.

Less than six months after arriving in Georgia, Ibarra would brutally murder Riley on a wooded trail that she was running on.

Ibarra will spend the rest of his life in jail. But what accountability is there for our “leaders” — who to this very day are still letting thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants flood this country? Mayorkas, Biden, and Democrats nationwide have created a system that not only lets violent criminals into the country but enables them to travel the states in search of innocent victims.

If Mayorkas is responsible for securing the border and keeping the homeland safe, but then deliberately institutes policies that do the opposite, does he get to escape accountability?

Mayorkas and the Democrats have failed in their most basic duty to protect Americans, and their negligence has cost innocent lives. If “no one is above the law,” when does Mayorkas’ trial begin?

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2