FIRST ON FOX: The mother of a woman allegedly killed by an unlawful immigrant pleaded with Judiciary Committee senators to safe the border in her written testimony for a listening to led by committee Democrats titled, “How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy.”
“I stay 1,800 miles from the southern border in a small city in northern Maryland. Yet a person who was wished for homicide in El Salvador made his approach to my neighborhood… and ambushed my daughter on a quaint strolling path in broad daylight,” wrote Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin who died in 2023.
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Patty Morin is testifying at a judiciary listening to on Tuesday. (Reuters)
Rachel Morin was a mom of 5. Following her demise, a grand jury in Maryland voted to formally charge the suspect, unlawful immigrant Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, with two counts of homicide, two counts of rape and one depend every of intercourse offense and kidnapping.
“We felt relieved when the suspect was lastly caught. But that reduction rapidly turned to horror and outrage after we discovered that the suspect was an unlawful immigrant. This man was wished for killing a lady in his house nation when he walked into ours,” Patty wrote in her deliberate testimony.
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Victor Martinez Hernandez is accused of raping and murdering mom of 5 Rachel Morin in Maryland on Aug. 5, 2023. (Tulsa Police Department/ Facebook)
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., just lately previewed the Tuesday listening to, saying it “will study the implications of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations, in addition to stress the necessity to shift our focus towards smart options that may convey order to the border and supply a path to citizenship to longtime residents with no severe prison convictions.”
Patty might be one among 5 witnesses on the listening to.
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Durbin is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
“I really need you to listen to my phrases and take to coronary heart what I and different households throughout America are saying. Please hear our cries for assist! You every have taken an oath…an oath to serve our nation and the residents who make it nice. Protect Americans by securing our borders,” she mentioned in her testimony.
Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin are Americans allegedly killed by unlawful immigrants. (Instagram; Fox Houston; Facebook; Family handout)
The listening to and Patty Morin’s testimony comes as each events put together for the mass deportations of unlawful immigrants which were promised by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. He has additionally mentioned he’ll additional fortify the southern border and proceed constructing his wall.
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Rachel Morin’s demise was one among a number of high-profile deaths of girls within the U.S. allegedly by the hands of unlawful immigrants throughout the Biden administration. Some of the opposite instances that garnered nationwide media consideration and outrage have been these of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Texas and Laken Riley in Georgia.
