White House says Biden didn’t apologize for calling Laken Riley murder suspect an ‘illegal’

A White House spokesperson insisted Monday that President Biden did not apologize for referring to the alleged killer of Laken Riley as “illegal.”

In an MSNBC interview that aired over the weekend, Mr. Biden sought to clean up the mess after he came under fire from fellow Democrats and progressives for referring to Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley, as an illegal.

“I shouldn’t have used illegal. It’s undocumented,” Mr. Biden said during a taped interview, adding that immigrants “built the country.”