{"id":126386,"date":"2024-02-28T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126386"},"modified":"2024-02-28T19:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:09:02","slug":"slaying-of-georgia-student-becomes-part-of-u-s-immigration-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=126386","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Slaying of Georgia student becomes part of U.S. immigration debate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/02\/26\/georgia-slaying-suspect-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;The killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant, has quickly intensified the country\u2019s immigration debate as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/candidates\/joe-biden-2024\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0and leading Republican presidential candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/donald-trump\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0prepare trips to the border this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The body of 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley was found in the woods near a jogging trail Thursday on the University of Georgia campus, and her death is one of several cases in recent years that Republican politicians have highlighted to depict migrants as dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">On average, immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born U.S. citizens,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/siepr.stanford.edu\/news\/mythical-tie-between-immigration-and-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data show<\/a>, but Republican leaders have been galvanized by record numbers of illegal border crossings since Biden took office in 2021.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;The killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant, has quickly intensified the country\u2019s immigration debate as\u00a0President Biden\u00a0and leading Republican presidential candidate\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0prepare trips to the border this week. The body of 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley was found in the woods near a jogging trail Thursday on the University of Georgia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126387,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126386\/revisions\/126387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}