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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been slammed for insisting that
President Biden “should have said undocumented” when he referred to Laken Riley’s alleged killer as an “illegal” at his State of the Union address.

The California Democrat made the eyebrow-raising remark during an
interview on CNN after the president’s fiery speech — and was one of
several Democratic lawmakers who criticized the word choice Biden, 81,
used to describe the immigration status of Riley’s purported murderer.

“Madam speaker, one of the clearly ad-libbed moments was during the
section about immigration,” CNN anchor Dana Bash said before playing a
clip of Biden’s remarks.

The president referred to the slain 22-year-old nursing student as
“Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal,”
botching her first name and making it sound like he was referring to the
USC football coach of the same name.

“Now he should have said undocumented, but that’s not a big thing, OK?
What’s the big thing?” Pelosi said in response.

Bash said she wasn’t going to ask about the term “illegal,” which is
considered politically incorrect by progressive lawmakers, but rather
about the crime.

“Well, we usually say ‘undocumented.’ He said ‘illegal.’ I don’t think
it’s a big deal. I don’t think it’s a big deal because I think his focus
was on the sympathy for the family. It’s a terrible tragedy,” Pelosi said, harping on the matter.

“It’s a terrible situation that anybody losing a child or a family member.
It’s a terrible situation, but I think he handled it well,” she added.

Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan immigrant who illegally crossed the southern border into El Paso, Texas, has been charged with Riley’s murder. The
nursing student’s heartbroken parents turned down an invite to attend
Biden’s address.

Social media users quickly ripped Pelosi for focusing on the language
Biden used rather that the alleged shocking crime.

“Nancy Pelosi checks Joe Biden for referring to Laken Riley’s kiIIer as an illegal,” one disgusted viewer said on X.

“Yeah, because that’s what’s important here. These people are vile,” he continued.

“Nancy Pelosi is more concerned that Joe Biden called the criminal alien
that murdered Laken Riley an ‘illegal’ than she is about Laken Riley’s
death,” another seethed.

“She is a MONSTER!!!!” a third wrote.

Pelosi’s concerns with Biden’s off-the-cuff remark were echoed Friday by
the Biden re-election campaign’s national co-chair, Mitch Landrieu.

“He probably should’ve used a different word and I think he would know
that. But what you should notice about that is not that he made a small mistake,” Landrieu told CNN. “The big thing that he didn’t write, and this
is what this president always does, is express empathy to people, he
expressed kindness to people. He understands because, as you know, he lost
a number of children in his life.”

The complaints Pelosi and Landrieu had with Biden’s use of the word
“illegal,” however, were subdued when contrasted with the responses from
other Democratic lawmakers.

“Let me be clear: No human being is illegal,” far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D- Minn.) tweeted.

“As a proud immigrant, I’m extremely disappointed to hear President Biden
use the word ‘illegal,’” Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) similarly wrote on X.

One Democrat even went so far as to accuse Biden of coming “dangerously
close” to sounding like former President Donald Trump.

Progressive Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) charged that Biden’s word choice
was “incendiary and wrong.”

“My guest for this year’s State of the Union was the widow of a North
Texas rancher who was murdered by a neighbor who didn’t want Latinos
living next door,” Castro wrote on X. “Across Texas, many families can
tell similar stories of hate and harassment inspired by the rhetoric of
Donald Trump.”

“The rhetoric President Biden used tonight was dangerously close to
language from Donald Trump that puts a target on the backs of Latinos everywhere,” the Texas Democrat added. “Democrats shouldn’t be taking our
cues from MAGA extremism.”

Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) also argued on CNN that Republican
lawmakers tried to “bait” the president into going off-script, and while
his use of the word “illegal” was “unfortunate,” she doesn’t believe Biden actually feels that way about migrants who cross the border between ports
of entry.

“Look, it was clear being in the chamber last night, that there were
those in the extreme Republican Party who were trying to bait the
president into responding to whatever heckle they were offering,” Butler
said.

“It’s unfortunate that the President used that language,” she added. “I
don’t believe that is the language that he believes in his heart about immigrant people who find their way to this country to make a better life
for themselves.”

Biden struggled to find the right words when asked by a reporter Friday if
he had any regret about saying “illegal.”

“Well, I probably – I don’t regret – technically he’s not supposed to be
here,” the president responded.

Hours before Biden’s speech, the House passed a bill dubbed the Laken
Riley Act, which would require the detention by federal authorities of any migrant charged with committing burglary or theft.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/nancy-pelosi-ripped-for-saying- biden-should-have-called-laken-riley-murder-suspect-undocumented/

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