Slain Georgia college student, Laken Riley, (left) next to an image of a memorial for Alex Pretti who was killed by federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis as they conducted deportation operations there (right). (Getty Images/Laken Riley via Facebook)
"Jon: we need to fully fund DHS, so ICE can continue deporting violent criminal illegal immigrants from our streets. I stand with President Trump and law enforcement. When will you say one, even ONE, word about the illegal aliens arrested just this month for raping, kidnapping, and molesting your constituents?" questioned Collins.
"Georgia Sen. Ossoff tweeting about Minneapolis, nothing about this," Fox News radio host Guy Benson added, pointing to an incident roughly two weeks ago when an illegal alien in Georgia broke into a home and raped an 11-year-old girl in her bedroom that she shared with her 10-year-old sister.
"When the left rails against ICE and protests immigration enforcement, these are the criminals they’re defending," added Carter. "Where was Ossoff’s outrage when Laken Riley was murdered? Why is he more concerned with defending Minnesota’s criminals than the people of Georgia?"
While Ossoff held an event honoring the life of the slain college student shortly after her murder, Ossoff's critics have pointed to the fact they could not find the Georgia Democrat mentioning her name on X, formerly Twitter, even once. A Fox News analysis of Ossoff's X posts uncovered no X posts from the senator's accounts including "Laken Riley" in them.
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives in the U.S. Capitol for a vote on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Ossoff initially voted, along with all Senate Democrats, against an amendment that would have passed a modified version of the act via a defense appropriations bill in March 2024. However, Ossoff did eventually vote in favor of the stand-alone Laken Riley Act many months later in the next Congress in January 2025.
But Scott claims Ossoff became one of only 12 Democrats to vote in favor of the Laken Riley Act due to "political calculations."
"Georgians can't trust him. Jon Ossoff flip-flopping on the Laken Riley Act is just another example of him making election-season calculations that benefit his political career, not Georgians," Scott, who is also the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told Fox News Digital. "Voters can always count on Ossoff to do one thing: look out for his political career, not Georgians. Georgia voters are desperate for a Senator who fights every day for them, and I'm working tirelessly to make sure we replace Ossoff in November."
Ossoff's office did not provide comment in time for publication.
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