Appearing to go off script, President Joe Biden sparred with Republican hecklers during the State of the Union on Thursday (March 7).

Goaded by Trump-allied Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Biden went off script to address the case of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia, who was allegedly murdered last month by an undocumented immigrant who had been released on parole.

Republicans, who blame Biden and his administration's border policies for the deaths of Americans killed by illegal migrants, have seized on Riley's death as a symbol of Democrats' failure.

"It's about Laken Riley," shouted Greene during the speech, interrupting Biden as he talked about the border. "Say her name!"

Biden repeated her name, saying she was an innocent woman killed by "an illegal." But he said thousands are killed by "legal" U.S. residents, before sending his condolences to Riley's family.

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