Conservatives have recently highlighted comments from former President Bill Clinton regarding Laken Riley’s death at the hands of an illegal immigrant. While campaigning for the Harris-Walz campaign, Clinton blamed Riley’s murder on the lack of vetting that had occurred under the Biden-Harris administration, where millions of illegal immigrants have poured over the southern border.
Speaking to a crowd of Vice President Kamala Harris’ supporters, Clinton said, “You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you? They [Trump] made an ad about a young woman who’d been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn’t have happened.
However, Clinton suggested that America needs properly vetted migrants amid the declining fertility rates in the United States. “But if they are all properly vetted, and that doesn’t happen, and America is not having enough babies to keep our populations up, so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work, there wouldn’t be a problem,” he added.
Users on social media reacted to the former Democratic president’s statement, pointing to the Biden-Harris’s failure with the southern border. “Bill Clinton says Laken Riley’s death “probably wouldn’t have happened” if Kamala did her job at the border, continues on to imply that we need illegal immigrants for cheap labor. He was supposed to be campaigning FOR Kamala. YIKES,” the Trump War Room X account wrote.
“Clinton was trying to make the case that GOP killed a bill that would have increased vetting. But Laken’s alleged killer was encountered by CBP on Sept. 8, 2022 and was paroled and released for further processing. This was more than a year BEFORE the border deal was put up,” journalist David Asman said.
However, Clinton was not criticizing the Biden-Harris administration in his remarks, instead touting the commonly recited Democratic talking point which blames Republicans for the border crisis. The former president blamed the Trump for killing the prior border bill which would have supposedly added vetting for migrants.
“And on the immigration thing, she’s the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration in any given year to a certain point and then make sure we gave people a decent place to live. We didn’t design divide people from their children, and we did total vetting before people got in. Now Trump killed the bill. The bill was written being written by senior Republicans in the Senate, and he killed the bill,” Clinton said in his statement.
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Other users on social media criticized Clinton’s presidential record with illegal immigration, placing some of the blame on him for the origins of the present crisis. “Bush 1, with the ACLU, stopped enforcing the border, but Bill Clinton is the traitor who stopped interior enforcement of illegal immigration. Rather than do anything to encourage an increase in the birth rate, he increased abortions and then invited the first waves of the massive illegal alien invasion. Bill Clinton is A Traitor,” one person commented.
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