Democrat Mayor Of Athens, GA, Claims No Connection Between Illegal Aliens and Crime After Illegal Alien Allegedly Murders UGA Student in His City
“Mayor of Athens, Ga. in the wake of the first murder at UGA in 30 yrs. Listed threats: Trump, Charlottesville, possible vitriol from American citizens to illegal immigrants. Not listed: Crime, murderers, his duty to citizens.”
There is something very very wrong with Democrats and their media minions. How can the mayor of a city in which a nursing student was horrendously disfigured, raped, and murdered by an illegal alien—the campus’s first murder in 30 years—claim that illegal immigration is not a factor in her murder . . . by an illegal alien?
Sane people have no idea, but here he is, waffling on nonsensically.
Kelly Girtz (D), the Mayor of Athens, Georgia, where Laken Riley was m*rdered by an illegal says illegal immigration and crime aren’t connected. He then blames Trump for being mean to illegals. pic.twitter.com/HyANM5PAgY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 28, 2024
The citizens and voters present were, of course, outraged by this out-of-touch lunacy.
Athens Mayor Girtz (D) just tried to shift away blame over Laken Riley's death
Angry residents were NOT having any of it: pic.twitter.com/V6uXFqQAh6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 28, 2024
Mayor of Athens, Ga. in the wake of the first murder at UGA in 30 yrs. Listed threats: Trump, Charlottesville, possible vitriol from American citizens to illegal immigrants. Not listed: Crime, murderers, his duty to citizens. He is the Norm joke. A blinkered, insane response. pic.twitter.com/tGtyWXpPzc
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 28, 2024
But this mayor is apparently a big supporter of BLM, too, so who’s really surprised that his reaction to George Floyd was different from a white girl being raped and beaten so badly she’s disfigured and then murdered.
Kelly Girtz is also a diehard BLM supporter. He had a very different response to the death of George Floyd than he did Laken Riley. https://t.co/fQnkuOR1Pw
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 28, 2024
It’s hard to see how Athens, Georgia, reelects this gaslighting nightmare of a mayor. But time will tell.
Athens, Georgia residents shout down Mayor Girtz at his disgraceful press conference today on Laken Riley:
“Please stop lying. You’re insulting our intelligence, sir! You need to resign. Resign! Resign now! Go away, resign. You allowed this to happen, sir. You voted for this.” https://t.co/ePajMVRC32 pic.twitter.com/cgIemhyBHw
— Paul A. Szypula
(@Bubblebathgirl) February 28, 2024
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
Father who interrupted Democrat Mayor for protecting illegal migrants after death of Georgia student Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal goes OFF:
"This Mayor has violated his Oath of Office. He's supposed to protect citizens of Athens, not illegal criminal aliens."
pic.twitter.com/MTGGz7mcc4
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 29, 2024
I can’t even fathom how he said some of the disgusting things he said. He should have to endure the pain that Lakens family is going through!!
— Sean Kemp (@SeanKem06187078) February 28, 2024
Absolutely sickening display of deflection and lies. Wow. https://t.co/yJ0j437pTe
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 28, 2024
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
To stand there and say illegal immigration and crime are not connected is beyond foolish. If the border was secure Ms. Riley would be alive today, instead she died at the hands of an illegal immigrant. She is not the only one.Electing people… https://t.co/NGOclj2J7M
— Not Simo Häyhä (@h2av8tor) February 28, 2024
The full text reads (emphasis in original):
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
To stand there and say illegal immigration and crime are not connected is beyond foolish. If the border was secure Ms. Riley would be alive today, instead she died at the hands of an illegal immigrant. She is not the only one.
Electing people like this is one reason, and a major one, why we are overrun with illegal migrants.
and anti Trump Rhetoric. don't forget the anti trump angle. this murder, according to this mayor, is trump's fault.
— Rani, Last of The Red Hot Boomers (@ShadesOfRani) February 28, 2024
Good! People should stop tolerating the lies and spin from politicians. https://t.co/VKJzKtyH57
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 28, 2024
And yes, Athens, Georgia, is a proud sanctuary city. Well, sort of.
In 2019, Athens City Council passed a resolution to become a sanctuary city and welcoming of everyone regardless of their documentation status.
Mayor Girtz (D) himself announced it.
This week Laken Riley was m*rdered by an illegal in Athens. pic.twitter.com/se3J26f0c1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 28, 2024
More of this
Hold these sanctuary city Marxists accountable for the blood on their hands
Allowing illegal aliens to freely come in and murder American sons and daughters makes THEM responsible https://t.co/wdfOvCwily
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 28, 2024
If the border wasn't open and Athens, GA wasn't a "sanctuary city" Laken Riley would still be alive, and no amount of BS they spew can change that fact. F**k this guy. https://t.co/pZm2Wgqgms
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) February 28, 2024
The Democrats have completely lost the narrative
God bless those citizens for calling out that monster— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 28, 2024
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He’s a liar. And that he can do it with a straight face should give everyone pause.
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Lying is integral to being a Democrat.
As Hillary once said, to believe this, you have to have the “willing suspension of disbelief.”
Surprised he can sleep at night. Clearly no conscience.
He’s technically correct. You’d need to do statistics to see if the illegal immigrant population has a different crime profile than native populations.
The story is a clickbait one for the right, which ought to deepen suspicion.
No “illegal immigrant kills unpleasant old man” stories.
Every crime committed in the USA by an illegal alien is predicated upon their unlawful presence in the USA. If they were not illegally present in the USA they would find it far more difficult to commit crimes in the USA. Not sure how that fact escapes you.
In this case we have not only an illegal alien but an illegal alien who had a sanctuary jurisdiction arrest then release him prior to the murder he committed. This came despite the detainer request issued by ICE to hold him for deportation which the sanctuary jurisdiction chose to ignore.
So to recap:
1. Open border policy let him in
2. Lax immigration enforcement efforts failed to find and deport his ass
3. Lax bail policies made it easier to release him
4. Soft on crime DA don’t fight for adequate bail nor to max charge
5. Sanctuary City policies that refuse to honor ICE detainer let him loose
There’s a large population of friendly and honest-work Mexicans here too, that works against the statistics.
There’s the policy question – apparently it’s not possible to find out how the open border persists when nobody obvious wants it to be open – and there’s the crime statistics question. They’re different. One is being used to argue against the other without bothering to do the statistics.
Other than missing The Big Picture on immigration…nice thoughts there. The illegal criminals aren’t supposed to be here as part of the illegal population that shouldn’t be here. This is the same excuse as to why the “mostly peaceful” protests of the Summer of Floyd were allowed to deflect from The Big Picture.
Fine… a lot of nice people are illegally here. Billions of nice people should be here and we can likewise justify deflecting about the not so nice that got in.
As in no attempt to sort out a lot of nice people from the not so nice. You applaud illegal immigration. It is destabilizing the country. We are past the “too much of a “good” thing”
Water is necessary to life. A dam breach is the opposite.
A billion people would come here if they could, not just the roughly 10 million illegals Biden has let in so far. As time goes by, the means to get here will become more efficient. Read this article about Whitewater, WI, “a sleepy town of 15,000”, and get very nervous. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere in this country and eventually will.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/02/29/the-illegal-immigrant-crisis-isnt-just-a-big-city-problem-n3783697?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=55c1bb79182b5cc3f2cb588e21b3707c1e37cf60263c074e4ae20b51f2876b9a
I’m mostly concerned with the right falling for clickbait and thinking it’s being smart. I don’t even think it works as virtue signalling.
Why the border is open, without anybody wanting it open on either side, is one thing. There’s the issue. Neither the cheap labor theory nor the dem voter theory works. Scott Adams is pretty sure it’s a mutually beneficial arrangement with the cartels with some US agency, going deep state.
That has nothing to do with pretty young woman killed by retarded thug. That’s click bait. I don’t even see how everybody falls for it, I mean maybe women do.
Illegal immigration was never a good thing, so “too much of a good thing” does not apply. Imagine what the employment and wealth prospects for blacks in this country might be if we hadn’t imported more than thirty million Mexicans to undercut them.
There is a 100% correlation between every crime committed by an illegal alien in the USA and the unlawful presence of that illegal alien in the USA.
Not that it is germane but most of the ‘Mexicans’ aka those of Mexican ancestry, in the USA are here lawfully either from birth, naturalization or posses a green card. Many of them have had a continuous family presence in the USA long before many other families arrived.
I had a wind storm that destroyed many of my trees and the roofs of my barn and shed. No white contractors would do the work at anything close to a reasonable rate. I hired a Hispanic group. to cut up and take down all of the trees, and put a metal roof on my barn and shed. About 10 of them showed up and did everything in just 8 hours.
Your idea of what constitutes a “reasonable rate” is due to illegals driving the price on labor down.
It’s free to post a link to that “”””quote”””” that you found on Powerline, JR. Maybe one of the Hispanics can show you how to copy and paste.
So they can only work hard and inexpensively as illegals? If they become citizens, the leftist unions snap them up and the prices soar. By edict of the leftist supporting unions.
Got it.
Wow, strawmen are typically made to tear down. Is it not then true that there were nice people in Charlottesville, VA?
Who gives a damn if they’re “honest-work” people? They’re here illegally, which is a crime, and taking employment from legal residents, another crime.
This is not a question of statistics. It’s a question of sovereignty. Aliens who we do not invite have no business being here. NONE. And if they are here every interaction they have with any sort of official or law enforcement should result in their immediate deportations (and DNA swipes and fingerprinting to identify them in future encounters).
I don’t care if these illegals are the greatest people in the world – they are ILLEGAL and have no business being in this country. If we wanted them here we would invite them and they would come through legal channels.
And all of the politicians who are orchestrating and/or giving aid and comfort to this invasion need to be arrested and tried for TREASON.
If they were really good, they would be properly vetted and screened for diseases, by going through the proper immigration process.
Anything less is dangerous and leftist.
This comment is as tone deaf as his attempt to cast blame elsewhere.
The stats are kept by either the DOJ or FBI and I doubt either would give accurate stats on crimes committed by favored groups.
Actually, the evidence points to crimes being committed by illegal aliens at greater rates than by actual citizens.
Regardless, even if the illegal aliens are all saints walking around like Mother Theresa, they don’t belong here.
They should be rounded up (yes, rounded up) and deported.
Yes, somebody should look at the statistics and not the pretty-woman crime. I doubt the illegal alien crime rate is higher than blacks in general, and the illegals seem to have a friendlier attitude. So it’s not up there in deport-argument range. That’s the clickbait problem. I’ve given up on the left but the right is supposed to be rational.
Separate problem is the open border regardless of the dead pretty woman, and that’s the mystery item. Somebody hidden wants the border open and everybody in plain view wants it closed.
“I doubt the illegal alien crime rate is higher than blacks in general”…. I would challenge that considering all of the criminals pouring into the country. Note that crime rate in Venezuela is at a 22 year low as the criminals left for greener fields. Even if the same as blacks… that is unacceptable.
“I doubt the illegal alien crime rate is higher than blacks in general, and the illegals seem to have a friendlier attitude.”
Venezuela Homicide Rate Lowest in 22 Years As Its Gangs Migrate Here
“More than a 25% drop in about a year, according to the Venezuela Violence Observatory.”
“I doubt the illegal alien crime rate is higher than blacks in general, and the illegals seem to have a friendlier attitude.”
Yeah, that’s not exactly the winning argument you think it is.
No he’s technically obfuscating.
Those statistics are impossible to accurately tabulate for multiple reasons
-Illegal aliens are not accurately counted in the country
-Illegal aliens have fewer ties to the community and are often harder to catch than domestics
-Illegal aliens are being covered for in lesser crimes by Soros bought DAs all over the country so their crimes go unreported.
He’s not technically correct at all. There may not be CAUSATION, in the strictest sense in that Biden’s open border may not have directly caused this tragedy any more than the gun causes the school shooting.
Of course there is a CONNECTION. If the border were protected and illegals with criminal histories were jailed and then deported, then that specific individual would not have caused this senseless murder.
Could she have been murdered by someone else? Of course, but it hasn’t happened there in 30 years. To claim that this has nothing to do with the open border crisis is disingenuous at best and evil fabrication at worst.
Your posts here are just as bad as your posts over on Althouse. My suggestion would be to get back on your meds.
“The Mayor of Athens, Georgia, where Laken Riley was m*rdered by an illegal says illegal immigration and crime aren’t connected.”
There most certainly is a connection between Laken Riley and the illegal alien that was arrested. They found her with her pants pulled down and she had been clearly raped before she was m*rdered. The connection is that the illegal alien raped her and then killed her. DNA from the person who raped her was sent off for testing and when the results come back the illegal alien killer will be charged with rape also.
They booked the illegal murderer as ‘white’.
When you intentionally lie about who is committing crimes, of course there’s ‘no connection’ between illegals and crime.
The lady in Houston who shot up the church was listed as ‘white’ in her previous arrests. This is a game that is played. If you look through the daily booking sheets for most urban areas (and even suburban areas, as in this instance), you will find few ‘Latinos’ being processed. I’m not sure why it’s done that way. But, I’m skeptical it’s a well-inentioned policy choice. It sure feels like they’re trying to pad the number of crimes committed by ‘white’ people.
Per the definitions managed by the FBI, Latino is racially white with a Hispanic ethnicity. At least that’s how the 4473 is classified.
Which is why the lefts lie that illegals don’t commit as many crimes as Americans is such a joke.. They aren’t being truthful…as usual.
His attempt to virtue signal and blame you know who was about the most pathetic thing that happened yesterday.
So many in the party of compassion lost theirs.
This mayor is trash. He and his party are the single greatest threat to Our Republic.
To the woke, their “truth” is more important than mere facts.
Or real science, economics, diplomacy or common sense.
As crime spiked in hell hole I moved from, I would rarely put myself or my family in situations where we would be in danger.
However it became increasingly difficult with the number of guided missiles on the freeway and surface streets. In 202o I was driving my family to do the “polar express” experience and had one of these missiles try to side swipe us for the crime of not driving 95 in the fast lane in a torrential down pour. (I was going 20 over and about 10 faster than the slow lane).
These became regular occurences 20 times a day and always result in hit-n-runs for which the cops won’t pursue them. That big iron on my hip, nor the OC spray on the belt was not going to save us.
That said. I have some sadness in reading about this case. I’m raising my daughter to put an aggressor in the morgue.
Illegal means not legal, right? Which means it is a crime. Which means their very presence is a crime. I. E. Illegal immigration is directly tied to crime.
It depends entirely on how they entered the country. If you enter the country any place other than a designated border crossing, you’ve committed a crime, a misdemeanor for a 1st offense and (I believe) a felony for multiple offenses.
If you simply overstay your visa, then you haven’t committed a ‘crime’ because the statute that makes visa overstay illegal only comes with a civil penalty; for an illegality to qualify as a crime, a criminal penalty must be an available statutory punishment.
This is an important, but rarely talked about point about the insidiousness of what Biden is doing. He’s allowing MILLIONS of people who are crossing the border and committing a crime in the process to avoid that criminal charge by allowing them to enter the asylum process. That never should have been allowed. The fact that they crossed illegally should have been the central reason for their deportation. As I understand it, now that they’re in the asylum process, the CRIMINAL act of entering illegally can’t be used against them….which is why almost none of these people will ever get deported.
The bottom line is that if these people crossing over were never going to vote Democrat, the border would be closed. The destruction of the Western Nation States is in full swing.
Open borders biden policies murdered Laken Riley.
Say her name.
This is why Trump’s first EO must be a “Wait in Mexico” policy so they can be deported. It will take years, so need to start yesterday.
Many immigration offenses are civil or administrative violations. Sort of like Trump’s financial statements in New York State. Who has suffered more?
They could not produce an injured party in Trump’s big civil case in NY.
As I understand it, the banks filed Trump’s ludicrous estimates of his worth. Then they went out and did their own due diligence. The result was he got the same terms and interest as if he’d been honest.
The loans were paid off on time and in full. Nobody got hurt, but that didn’t suit The Narrative, so it got deep-sixed.
Illegal means not legal, right? Which means it is a crime.
Technically, no.
Just because something is “illegal” does not make it a “crime.” A “crime” is when, if found guilty, a person’s freedom may be taken away (ie go to prison.)
Not all illegal things can send a person to prison.
For example, it is illegal to speed in your car. If convicted, you get a fine. Your liberty is not in jeopardy for going 10 mph over a posted 55 mph speed limit.
Your point is understood as far as it goes, but technically it is not quite correct.
“A “crime” is when, if found guilty, a person’s freedom may be taken away (ie go to prison.)”
No. From Cornell Law:
“Crime is behavior, either by act or omission, defined by statutory or common law as deserving of punishment or penalty. Although most crimes require the element of intent, certain minor crimes may be committed based on strict liability even if the defendant had no specific mindset with regard to the criminal action. For instance, parking violations are crimes that usually do not require prosecutors to establish intent.”
So, going to prison or not has nothing to do with it. Whether it deserves punishment or penalty is the deciding factor.
Athens is in Clark county which is a sanctuary county.
Seems like the citizens are having a change of heart. I hope it leads to a change of political party and mayor.
What the hell is going on in Georgia?? What a mess down there between Fani and now this clown. God Bless the citizens who would not accept the nonsense from the woke hack….
Does Athens have no civic integrity? How could they elect this POS?
There’s a very large university there. Take one guess why they voted Dem.
Then make the university the “sanctuary” and spare the town.
The answer, IMO, is the ‘off’ election cycle for municipal offices, County commission and school boards are usually off cycle not on the ‘normal’ Nov ballot. That’s one way the public employee unions among others are able to have outsize influence on the outcomes of those election.
Moving all elections onto the same cycle and ballot of Congressional and Presidential elections would dramatically change the the results, at least in otherwise Red jurisdictions. When voter participation is extremely low, as they are in the current off cycle local elections, then organized groups are able to leverage their smaller but active numbers into considerably more political power than they otherwise could.
In his prepared remarks, the mayor used the word “context.” Big mistake.
“Not listed: Crime, murderers, his duty to citizens.”
Their job is not to manage services to
serfs’citizens’ benefit, butserfscitizens to the benefit of others.Occasionally the let us vote for candidates of their choosing, to bolster the republican pretense.
I wonder…
…if people pre-selected to be willing to commit crimes to be in the US might be statistically more likely to commit additional crimes once in there?
…if people who have committed a non-immigration crime in country might independently be statistically more likely to commit additional crimes?
…if the two taken together are a stronger indicator than just the gains of each category combined?
These are empirical questions.
The Founders would have tarred and feathered this guy.
Today, caning would be appropriate.
What? I was told there would be waterboarding!
Make recalls popular.
The recall laws in Georgia are virtually worthless, written entirely to protect incumbent politicians. While anyone holding elected office can technically be recalled, for that to happen, the recall petitioners must prove (by a preponderance of the evidence), that the official qualifies for recall because he/she has met the specific statutory stipulations of recall. IOW, unlike CA where someone can be recalled for any reason, in GA, a judge must approve the recall.
But wait, it’s worse. If that bar is met, THEN recall petitioners must collect the signatures of 30% of all registered voters. For comparison purposes, CA only requires 10%. I’ve lived in GA for 12-years and I can’t remember any recall effort making on the ballot much less winning.
The DA in Athens/Clark County, who was elected to office in 2020, was forced to recuse herself after the Governor and many others correctly expressed skepticism that she’s up to the task. Why are they skeptical? Well, in the three years she’s been DA, she hasn’t obtained a SINGLE GUILTY VERDICT at trial. In fact, she’s never obtained a guilty verdict at trial in her entire legal career.
And yet, she was easily elected, beating the GOP candidate by 40 or 50-points. You can’t fix stupid and the voters of Clark County, GA are self-evidently incredibly stupid.
This is what you get when the low IQ vote.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released their Fiscal Year 2023 report with summaries, statistics, and data.
The report can be found here:
https://www.ice.gov/doclib/eoy/iceAnnualReportFY2023.pdf
There are several divisions within ICE, namely Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI.)
From the report (page 12):
From the report (page 44):
Da Nile is such a long river….