According to the embargoed version of Thursday’s State of the Union address, which journalists previewed, President Joe Biden planned to remain silent about the late Laken Riley, the 22-year old Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on Feb. 22, reportedly by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26.

He broke into America in September 2022, under Biden. Bleeding-heart Democratic prosecutors in New York City and Athens, Georgia, liberated Ibarra after police arrested him for less-serious crimes. Before long, authorities say, he fatally crushed Riley’s skull.

But when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., taunted Biden to “Say her name!” he brandished a pin that read: “Say Her Name—Laken Riley.” Mangling it anyway, Biden declared that “Lincoln” Riley “was killed by an illegal.”

Rather than express outrage that federal and local Democrats failed Riley and let someone with no right to be here kill her, House Democrats exploded over what they consider the real atrocity: Biden’s saying, “illegal.”

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California told CNN about Biden: “He should’ve said, ‘undocumented.’” Never mind that illegal aliens often carry foreign identity documents and/or U.S. driver’s licenses and other records. Millions of these documented “undocumented” occupy America.

Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., said via X: “As a proud immigrant, I’m extremely disappointed to hear President Biden use........

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