Biden stuns Republicans by going on attack over border and addressing Laken Riley’s parents

President Joe Biden stunned Republicans during his State of the Union speech by going on the attack over the border and addressing Laken Riley’s parents directly.

Mr Biden was heckled during the speech by Georgia Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called on him to say the name of Ms Riley, a student murdered in Georgia, allegedly by an undocumented migrant.

Ms Greene was handing out Laken Riley pins ahead of the State of the Union even after the murdered student’s parents turned down an invitation to attend.

They declined an invitation from Rep Mike Collins, Republican of Georgia.

Ms Riley, 22, a nursing student, was allegedly murdered while jogging on the campus of the University of Georgia.

A 26-year-old man from Venezuela was later detained. Police have referred to it as a “crime of opportunity” and the man, Jose Ibarra, has been charged with felony murder, kidnapping, and false imprisonment.

President Joe Biden holds up a pin referring to murdered Georgia student Laken Riley while delivering his State of the Union address

Republicans have been using Ms Riley’s death to lambast the Biden administration’s border policies. The president used part of his speech on Thursday night to criticise Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan border security bill after former President Donald Trump came out against it.

“That bipartisan bill would hire 1,500 more security agents and officers, 100 more immigration judges, help tackle the backlog of two million cases,” Mr Biden said in a forceful address. “4,300 more asylum officers and new policy so they can resolve cases in six months instead of six years now.”

“A more high-tech drug detection machine to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles