WATCH: Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan Tears Up When Discussing Laken Riley Murder

Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan teared up while discussing the brutal murder of University of Georgia nursing Student Laken Riley, who was killed by an illegal alien.

Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela, was convicted on several charges after waiving his right to a jury trial on Tuesday. Ibarra faced charges of malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault with intent to rape.

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Judge H. Patrick Haggard convicted Ibarra on all 10 charges and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a harrowing trial that captured national attention.

Riley, 22, was out for a jog when she was abducted, assaulted, and killed. Her body was discovered hours later in a wooded area near the trail she frequented. The murdered student fought back against her killer for 18 minutes, leaving behind critical forensic evidence that led to Ibarra’s conviction.

On Tuesday evening, former ICE Director Tom Homan discussed the case with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. Homan is expected to take control of President-elect Trump’s mass deportation and border security efforts once he takes office in January.

“You know, Laura, a lot of people ask me why I get so emotional when I do Fox News and why I get, why I scream at members of Congress. Because I’ve seen so much tragedy. I’ve talked to hundreds of angels and moms and dads who buried their children because they were killed by illegal aliens. This is the latest,” Homan began.

“You know, I’ve talked to little girls as young as nine years old that were raped multiple times by members of the cartel. When you look in her eyes and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her soul, and her life will never be the same. I mean, it’s just, I’m tired of it,” he continued. “And the government failed the Laken Riley family. Not only if President Trump was president, he’d be sitting in Mexico under the Remain in Mexico program. And if he did get to New York, and he was arrested for injury to a child in New York, I should be able to arrest him because the prior is under Trump, where if you’re in the country illegally, you’re a target.”

“So this is purely, it could have been prevented, this young lady’s dead, and I want every mayor, every governor of a sanctuary jurisdiction to listen to that tape, listen to this young girl fight for her life, fight for her breath, trying to survive, terrified. I want you to understand what she went through.”

During his initial tenure with ICE, Homan delivered a number of powerful testimonials during congressional hearings. He frequently references one incident in which he recovered the body of a five-year-old boy in the back of a tractor trailer not far from the U.S.-Mexico border. “I held, I found him dead, [he] baked to death. I thought about what the last hour of his life was like,” Homan told Ingraham.

“You need to listen to this tape. And for those governors and mayors that are saying they’re going to stop Tom Homan, they’re going to stop President Trump, shame on you. Your responsibility is to protect your communities, and that’s what we want to do, is protect your community.”

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