Biden says he regrets using the term ‘illegal’ to describe suspected killer of Laken Riley

President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he regretted using the term “illegal” to refer to the suspected killer of Georgianursing student Laken Riley.

Mr Biden apologised after some people from his political party expressed frustration with the president using the term to describe people who arrived in the US illegally.

“I shouldn’t have used illegal, it’s undocumented,” he said in an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart taped in Georgia’s capital city Atlanta.

Donald Trump, who was campaigning in Rome, Georgia, at the same time, blasted Mr Biden for his apology.

“Joe Biden went on television and apologized for calling Laken’s murderer an illegal….Biden should be apologizing for apologizing to this killer,” Mr Trump said at his rally.

Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered while she was jogging on the campus of the University of Georgia.

Police detained a 26-year-old man from Venezuela named Jose Ibarra, allegedly an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with felony murder, kidnapping, and false imprisonment.