Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Feb. 12 that she had clawed back all of the money distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that recently went toward housing illegal immigrants in New York City hotels.
“FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer,” she said on X.
Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student who was murdered on Feb. 22, 2024, in Georgia by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela named Jose Antonio Ibarra. He entered the country illegally in 2022.
The recently passed Laken Riley Act requires any foreign national charged with “any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury to another person” to be detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regardless of whether a court granted them bail from state detention….