How was the immigration of Jose Antonio Ibarra supposed to make Laken Riley better off?

by philg

“Migrant suspect in Laken Riley murder accused of ‘seriously disfiguring’ nursing student as affidavit reveals grim details in case” (New York Post):

The Venezuelan migrant charged with murdering Laken Riley allegedly beat her so brutally with an unidentified object that he disfigured her skull, according to new affidavits.

Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, who faces multiple murder and assault charges, is not thought to have known the 22-year-old nursing student when he allegedly kidnapped and killed her as she went for a run on the University of Georgia campus Thursday.

Ibarra entered the US illegally in El Paso, Texas, on Sept. 8, 2022, with his wife and her son seeking asylum, and was later released “for further processing,” ICE said.

Laken Riley will not be alive to see the full benefits of the Biden administration’s transformation of the United States via immigration, but for those of us who haven’t been killed by a migrant… what is the rationale for the current system? How was Jose Antonio Ibarra’s immigration supposed to improve the lives of Americans overall? In an ideal world where he didn’t kill anyone, what would he have done that would have made Laken Riley better off?

(If the answer is “his immigration wasn’t supposed to make Laken Riley better off” then in what sense is the U.S. government working on behalf of U.S. citizens?)

Separately, what’s happening with crime statistics in Venezuela? If their career criminals and gang members have all accepted Joe Biden’s invitation to move to the U.S., shouldn’t Venezuela soon be as safe as El Salvador? Or is Venezuela breeding new criminals even faster than it is exporting them?

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16 thoughts on “How was the immigration of Jose Antonio Ibarra supposed to make Laken Riley better off?”

  1. How was the immigration of Jose Antonio Ibarra supposed to make Laken Riley better off? his immigration wasn’t supposed to make Laken Riley better off

    what is the rationale for the current system? There is none.

    How was Jose Antonio Ibarra’s immigration supposed to improve the lives of Americans overall? his immigration wasn’t supposed to improve the lives of Americans.

    In an ideal world where he didn’t kill anyone, what would he have done that would have made Laken Riley better off? (asked and already answered) his immigration wasn’t supposed to make Laken Riley better off

    in what sense is the U.S. government working on behalf of U.S. citizens? It’s not!

    Separately, what’s happening with crime statistics in Venezuela? It’s getting worse.

    shouldn’t Venezuela soon be as safe as El Salvador? No.

    Or is Venezuela breeding new criminals even faster than it is exporting them? yes!

  2. More people (regardless of their culture, skills, or abilities) = more spending = “bigger economy” (GDP), which is always a good thing … right? Right? Right?!

  3. Please, use the proper pronouns! They are not “migrant” or “immigrant”, they are “illegal migrant”.

    • False:

      The legal term is illegal alien, although the Brandon administration wants to substitute “migrant”.

  4. US Citizens are last in line! Here is a Senator clearly stating that “The people we care about most” are illegal aliens.
    https://youtu.be/zbJ5zEar504

    Trump’s Unforgivable Sin was pretending to care about citizens.

    Also, the same people who called January 6, 2002 “treason” are now premeditating doing the same thing, not due to highly suspicious Election-Day activities in multiple states:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20240224214528/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/democrats-congress-trump-january-6/677545/

  5. If you have a supermarket serving 1/3rd of a small city of 100,000, how do you increase profits? Any merchandising move you make will be matched by competitors, who are selling basically the same thing and buying for the same price. You can’t easily go “upscale” since people buy about the same amount of food each week.

    However if your city of 100K increases its population to 125K, then your chance of profits really will increase. The fixed costs of the grocery store will remain the same but be spread amongst 25% more purchases.

    The people who consider themselves “the owners of the USA” are the people benefiting from more immigration.

    JP Morgan Chase gets the interchange fees off of the EBT/SNAP benefits, large corporations like Wal-Mart and the grocery store chains get the sales, and soft drinks are 10% of EBT purchases (so even Warren Buffett with his large share of Coca-Cola is getting paid). Since none of the immigrants are likely to own much for the first 10 years of being in the USA, all kinds of financing and rental/leasing companies stand to benefit as well.

    • An increasing population is great for those who control capital, not so so much for people who provide labor. Supply and demand.

  6. As far as I’ve read, this hasn’t gone to trial yet, right? Why is everyone assuming he is guilty? Isn’t one of the defining features of anglo-american jurisprudence the presumption of innocence? Though I suppose, in fairness, that the racist lynch mob is also a sacred American tradition. Never mind, carry on.

  7. He’d be cleaning out your shit, collecting garbage or delivering food. You know, the things you’re too lazy to do yourself.

    • @Rstx, you are correct. Thanks to food stamp, housing subsidize, and the many other subsidizes that able Americans get, those Americans are too lazy to do the work that Jose would have done.

    • @rstx, here is another way to look at it.

      Jose and the likes, could have stayed in Venezuela and worked on eliminating corruption and improving Venezuela, their home country. After all, the US provides aids [1]:

      “The United States is the largest humanitarian donor to the Venezuela regional crisis. Since FY 2017, the United States has provided more than $2.9 billion in humanitarian assistance for the response to the crisis. We will continue to work to support Venezuelans during their time of need.”

      Now, the population of Venezuela is 28.2 million. Run some math and you will see how much each Venezuelan is getting from US aid.

      It looks to me, illegal migrant are using our aid money to make their trip to the US so they are closer to where the free $$ is.

      [1] https://reliefweb.int/report/venezuela-bolivarian-republic/united-states-provides-nearly-485-million-additional-humanitarian-assistance-western-hemisphere

    • rstx: I think you’re saying that, in the best case scenario in which he committed zero crimes, he would be working a low-skill job at a lower-than-native-born wage. A Harvard analysis says that this benefits only the richest Americans (see https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216/ ), not the typical American. It also causes Black Americans to become unemployed and incarcerated (see https://www.nber.org/digest/may07/effects-immigration-african-american-employment-and-incarceration )

      I’m not sure that these analyses are up to date with all of the latest enhancements to the U.S. “means-tested” “not-welfare” welfare system. Under the best case scenarios that you lay out for Jose Antonio Ibarra, he and his entire family would have been eligible for taxpayer-funded housing, health care, food, smartphone, and broadband since he would never have earned enough to be disqualified from these “means-tested” benefits. So any savings to the middle class taxpaying American from the low wages that he would have been paid, had he not been imprisoned, would have been more than offset by higher taxes and reduced government services for the middle class necessary to fund Mr. Ibarra and his family’s lifestyle.

  8. She appears to be some variant of white, which is understood to be inherently evil. You shouldn’t care whether evil people are ‘better off;’ you should only be happy that they’re gone.

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