Opinion: Laken Riley deserves justice – not to be exploited as a symbol of xenophobia or hate

I have been avoiding blogging about the truly sad and tragic story of Laken Riley, the University of Georgia nursing student, who was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant.  Raul Reyes captures some of my thoughts in this CNN commentary.  He writes: “Study after study has found no conclusive link between immigrants and crime. In 2023 Stanford University researchers found that such a connection was `mythical’ and unsupported by 140 years of data.”

KJ