ALBANY – NY GOP Chair Ed Cox released the following statement in response to Kathy Hochul’s silence on Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student murdered by a criminal illegal alien who was arrested and released in New York last year:

“Joe Biden and Democrats’ open-borders policies are an existential threat to our country. A promising young woman was brutally killed by a criminal illegal migrant who should never have been here and was arrested and released in our own state prior to committing this murder.

“Kathy Hochul has found time to pose for photos outside the White House and tweet about the death of an owl, but has nothing to say about the direct result of her party’s policies. Say her name, Kathy.”

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