Laken Riley's sister says family has 'hope' after Trump immigration changes: 'Still a lot to be done'

EXCLUSIVE: Laken Riley’s sister said she and her household person "hope" owed to the migration policies President Donald Trump has enactment successful place, telling Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation that, portion determination is "still a batch to beryllium done," continuing successful the absorption of the caller medication "will beryllium precise beneficial to our country." 

Riley, a 22-year-old nursing pupil astatine Augusta University, was brutally assaulted and murdered by an amerciable migrant portion connected a greeting tally successful February 2024. 

Laken Riley, a nursing student, was recovered dormant adjacent a water connected the University of Georgia field connected Feb. 22, 2024. (Allyson Phillips/Facebook)

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Her sister, Lauren Phillips, told Fox News Digital that she volition ever talk retired successful grant and remembrance of her older sister, and volition proceed to advocator for "securing our borders." 

"I deliberation it’s important that we support reminding radical of the value of securing our borders and what tin hap erstwhile it’s not secure," Phillips told Fox News Digital. 

"We decidedly consciousness anticipation – we conscionable request to support talking astir it and support everyone alert of what happens erstwhile thing is done," she continued. "And I deliberation a batch has been done truthful far, and I americium grateful for that, but determination is inactive a batch to beryllium done." 

Lauren Phillips, left, with her sister, Laken Riley (Lauren Phillips )

She added: "I deliberation that continuing successful the absorption that the caller medication is going volition beryllium precise beneficial to our country." 

Phillips, connected Thursday, was featured successful the first video launched by the American Border Story (TABS), a nationalist inaugural dedicated to exposing the quality interaction of America’s borderline situation done storytelling. 

"I truly consciousness it’s important due to the fact that it didn’t halt with Laken – it keeps happening," Phillips told Fox News Digital. "I consciousness similar conscionable telling what’s happening to each of these radical isn’t enough." 

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"People aren’t realizing what’s genuinely being mislaid each azygous clip thing similar this happens," she said. 

The TABS video is the archetypal successful a bid that aims to bring "the information to light." 

"Truth the media and politicians excessively often ignore," Nicole Kiprilov, enforcement manager of TABS, told Fox News Digital. "Laken Riley’s communicative is not conscionable a calamity – it’s a wake-up call." 

Kiprilov said TABS is "honored to basal with her sister Lauren and brave families crossed America who are turning symptom into purpose." 

"This documentary is astir much than remembrance – it’s astir demanding accountability, restoring information and putting the American radical first," Kiprilov said. 

Phillips, successful the video, spoke astir her sister, their narration and Riley's faith, portion stressing that protecting the borderline "should beryllium communal sense." 

"I could speech astir her forever," Phillips told Fox News Digital. "I deliberation Laken is conscionable the benignant of idiosyncratic that you privation to beryllium around. She’s the benignant of idiosyncratic that shows up and she wasn’t conscionable my sibling – she was my champion friend." 

"A batch of radical would accidental her beingness brought truthful overmuch comfortableness and spot and peace, and I transportation a batch of what she taught maine successful my mundane life," she continued. "She had a airy that is truthful intolerable to ignore." 

Meanwhile, Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into instrumentality conscionable days aft taking office. It was the archetypal portion of authorities helium signed successful his 2nd administration. 

Laken Riley was brutally assaulted and murdered by an amerciable migrant portion connected a greeting tally successful February 2024. (Laken Riley/Facebook)

The measurement directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain amerciable immigrants arrested oregon charged with theft-related crimes, oregon those accused of assaulting a constabulary officer. The instrumentality besides allows states to writer the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens due to the fact that of amerciable immigration.

But Phillips told Fox News Digital that contempt changes to national law, it is "terrifying to person to locomotion astir the aforesaid metropolis wherever specified a tragic happening happened to my sister." 

Riley was murdered adjacent the University of Georgia field successful Athens, which is considered an unofficial sanctuary city. 

"The laws that were not enactment successful spot are inactive not enactment successful spot successful a metropolis wherever thing truthful tragic happened," Phillips said. "I thought what happened to Laken would alteration that, but thing has changed there, truthful I deliberation continuing to speech astir it, not backing down, not staying quiet, hopefully, volition bash something." 

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In summation to being vocal connected migration and honoring the beingness of her sister, Phillips said she and her household person created the Laken Hope Foundation. 

"I convey God each time that I person the abstraction to share, and that helium gave maine Laken for the clip that helium did, and I convey him for her religion and his faithfulness to cognize that nary of this compares to what we’re going to beryllium fixed and wherever she is."