As Bill Clinton makes his case for Harris, he says Laken Riley’s death at the hands of an illegal immigrant “probably wouldn’t have happened” if the killer had been “properly vetted.”

Former President Bill Clinton said while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Monday that Laken Riley’s death – allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant from Venezuela – “probably wouldn’t have happened” if the killer had been “properly vetted.” were.

“You had a case in Georgia not long ago, right? They made an ad about it, about a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said at a rally for Harris in Georgia. “If they had all been properly vetted, this probably wouldn’t have happened.”

Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was killed in February while running on a trail at the University of Georgia in Athens. Authorities charged Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant, with first-degree murder, kidnapping with bodily harm and aggravated assault with intent to commit rape, although he pleaded not guilty. The trial is scheduled to begin on November 13th.

The 26-year-old suspect entered the United States illegally through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released on parole just a day after being taken into custody, Fox News reported. In March 2021, Biden named Vice President Harris as his point person to address the illegal immigration crisis.

Since becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris has sought to distance herself from the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to secure the southern border. More than 7.8 million migrants have crossed the U.S. southern border illegally under the Biden-Harris administration, and more than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder are currently at large in the United States, according to ICE.

Ibarra has ties to the violent Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela, whose armed members recently took over homes in Colorado and Texas, according to federal court documents reviewed by Fox.