Dem Mayor fights recall after Laken Riley’s death

The Democratic mayor of the city where 22-year-old University of Georgia (UGA) student Laken Riley was killed by an illegal immigrant is seeking to challenge his local recall.

Mayor Kelly Girtz of Athens, Georgia, this week filed a petition in the county’s superior court seeking a stay of the recall. He claimed the effort was mishandled by county election officials and that the court should review it.

The Democrat’s filing included a request for the court to investigate the sufficiency, or lack thereof, of the stated grounds for the recall.

Girtz also asked the court to “assess the facts, if any, upon which the grounds in the petition (for recall) are based.”

The Democratic mayor made clear that he didn’t taxpayer funds to hire a private attorney for his petition. Organizers of the effort reached the required number of signatures to move forward with the recall, including Sheriff John Williams and Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez.

Following Riley’s gruesome death at the hands of the Biden administration’s open-borders policy, Girtz defended his sanctuary city’s policies in private emails that say even the most violent illegal immigrants who commit crimes are not turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) .

“I support the prisoner policy because it is both humane and follows the well-documented tendency of immigrants in the U.S. to be less criminally inclined than the native-born population,” the mayor wrote in an email.

In the email, Girtz argued as much a person should be held predestined simply because he or she is an undocumented alien.

The American Immigration Council noted that cities like Athens are neglecting their responsibility to honor ICE detainees, which requires state and local law enforcement agencies to notify the agency before releasing illegal immigrants from state custody so that ICE can transfer them to federal authorities for possible deportation.

Riley’s killing caused a lot of drama, further spotlighting President Joe Biden’s reckless open border crisis.

Riley’s mother spoke out against Biden’s border policies and blamed the president for her daughter’s death.

“Biden doesn’t even know my kid’s name – it’s sad! like you shall say her name (even if you are forced to), at least say the right name!” She said.

Riley’s mother accused Biden of “minimising” her daughter’s murder by comparing his son Beau Biden’s death from cancer.

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