Chance of Laken Riley's illegal immigrant killer doing time in El Salvador prison addressed by lawmakers

The Trump administration's caller wide deportations of Venezuelan pack members to a notorious, maximum-security situation successful El Salvador has sparked questions astir whether Augusta University pupil Laken Riley's convicted slayer could beryllium sent there.

A Georgia justice successful November recovered Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan amerciable immigrant, blameworthy of 10 full counts successful transportation with the 22-year-old nursing student's decease and sentenced him to beingness successful prison. Ibarra, 27, attacked Riley portion she was jogging on a way connected the University of Georgia field and bushed her to death.

"I’m inactive furious that Jose Ibarra wasn’t sentenced to decease successful Georgia—because that’s the justness Laken Riley deserved," Republican Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore told Fox News Digital. "This monster should endure each azygous time for what helium did. If we tin nonstop him to El Salvador’s hellhole of a prison, wherever he’ll rot successful misery, past I’m each for it. And if President Trump makes it happen, he’ll person my afloat support."

Moore added, however, that helium has not "heard thing astir Georgia relinquishing power of its authorities justness strategy oregon handing implicit prisoners similar Ibarra to overseas authorities."

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Jose Ibarra, left, was recovered blameworthy connected 10 counts successful the decease of Georgia nursing pupil Laken Riley, right. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Chris Swecker, lawyer and erstwhile adjunct manager of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, told Fox News Digital helium thinks Ibarra volition beryllium deported "very quickly."

"If we tin nonstop him to El Salvador’s hellhole of a prison, wherever he’ll rot successful misery, past I’m each for it."

Ibarra, who is presently serving a beingness condemnation aft his February condemnation by seat trial, is warring his condemnation successful Athens-Clarke County, wherever his nationalist defender is pushing for a caller trial. A proceeding connected the substance has been scheduled for June 6.

Jose Ibarra listens done an interpreter during his proceedings astatine Athens-Clarke County Superior Court, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, successful Athens, Ga.  (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

"The Ibarra case…that thing's radioactive," Swecker said. "They'll find a ineligible ground for deportation."

"They'll find a ineligible ground for deportation."

As for the El Salvador prison, a coercion confinement halfway that tin clasp up to 40,000 inmates, it's unclear precisely if Ibarra could beryllium sent determination if helium is yet deported.

The Trump medication precocious deported hundreds of amerciable immigrants with Venezuelan pack Tren de Aragua (TdA) ties to El Salvador aft Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which allows the deportation of natives and citizens of an force federation without a hearing.

A situation defender transfers deportees from the U.S. to the Terrorism Confinement Center successful Tecoluca, El Salvador, connected Sunday. (El Salvador statesmanlike property bureau via AP)

Venezuela has refused to instrumentality backmost its erstwhile citizens who entered the United States illegally, which is apt wherefore the medication sought an alternate deportation location, Swecker suggested.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's inquiries astir the anticipation of Ibarra being deported to El Salvador.

Meanwhile, Ibarra's older brother, 29-year-old Diego Ibarra — who has ties to the Venezuelan pack TdA — was sentenced to service 4 years successful national situation aft pleading blameworthy to presenting a fake greenish paper to authorities erstwhile Jose was arrested aft Riley's murder.

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Images taken from national tribunal filings see Diego Ibarra's alleged fake greenish paper arsenic good arsenic photos that prosecutors accidental are grounds of his suspected ties to the convulsive Tren de Aragua pack from Venezuela. (Middle District of Georgia)

His younger brother, 25-year-old Argenis Ibarra, was sentenced to clip served aft helium pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of possession of a fraudulent papers successful December 2024. 

The brother's pistillate roommate, Rosbeli Flores-Bello, 29, besides of Venezuela, was sentenced to clip served aft she pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of possession of a fraudulent papers successful December 2024.

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Police aftermath up Jose Ibarra connected Feb. 23, 2024, a time aft Laken Riley's murder. (Court TV excavation camera)

All 3 defendants volition beryllium delivered to ICE for deportation, according to the Justice Department. Diego Ibarra volition look deportation pursuing his four-year national situation sentence.

It is unclear if immoderate of the defendants volition beryllium sent to El Salvador, arsenic lone Diego had evident TdA ties, according to tribunal documents. 

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A mega-prison known arsenic Detention Center Against Terrorism (CECOT) stands successful Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 5, 2023.  (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

"As for his brothers—they should ne'er person been successful our state successful the archetypal place," Moore said of Diego and Argenis. "If our borders had been secured, Laken Riley would inactive beryllium live today, on with countless different guiltless Americans. I basal 100% with President Trump successful his combat to support our state and escaped it of these convulsive criminals."

Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins told Fox News Digital that if helium had it his way, "every 1 of them would walk beingness successful situation with Jose—they merit thing less."

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Jose Ibarra listens done an interpreter during his proceedings astatine Athens-Clarke County Superior Court, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, successful Athens, Ga. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

"I applaud the Trump Administration and Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice for pursuing done and getting the migrant friends of Laken Riley’s slayer retired of our country," helium said. "Joe Biden shipped these Tren de Aragua thugs to Athens, and existent enactment is sending them backmost to wherever they came. If I had it my mode each 1 of them would walk beingness successful situation with Jose—they merit thing less."

Critics of the El Salvador deportation method accidental it's amerciable for the Trump medication to deport amerciable immigrants to the coercion confinement center.

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In this photograph provided by El Salvador's statesmanlike property office, situation guards transportation deportees from the U.S., alleged to beryllium Venezuelan pack members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center successful Tecoluca, El Salvador, connected Sunday, March 16. (El Salvador statesmanlike property bureau via AP)

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg precocious ordered an contiguous halt to the deportation efforts truthful helium could person much clip to see if Trump's usage of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal.

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Lauren-Brooke Eisen, elder manager of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, said successful a March 12 investigation that "even if imprisonment successful El Salvador does not portion incarcerated citizens of their status, it is inactive amerciable nether Trump’s ain touted First Step Act."

"Signed by Trump successful 2018 during his archetypal term, the instrumentality included changes successful national sentencing successful summation to reforms intended to amended the conditions of those successful national prisons. The instrumentality mandates that the national authorities spot radical successful ‘a installation arsenic adjacent arsenic practicable to the prisoner’s superior residence, and to the grade practicable, successful a installation wrong 500 driving miles of that residence,’" Eisen wrote.