The mom of a Maryland girl killed in a brutal working path assault – allegedly by the hands of an unlawful immigrant whose different suspected crimes came about on a number of continents and in a number of states – will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday after she says the tragedy led to an unlikely friendship with the returning commander-in-chief.
“It has been a surreal experience over the past year and a half. Losing my daughter in such a gruesome and unexpected way, the wait and fear of ‘if’ a suspect would ever be caught, the international attention Rachel’s case has garnered, culminating in Congressional hearings and a friendship with President Trump,” Patty Morin instructed Fox Information Digital.
Her 37-year-old daughter, Rachel Morin, was reported lacking in August 2023 after failing to return from her day by day jog. Rachel, a mom of 5 herself, was later discovered with savage accidents, stuffed right into a culvert close to the path.
U.S. Republican Presidential Candidate and former President Donald Trump comforts Patty Morin, mom of Rachel Morin, who was murdered by an unlawful immigrant, on the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024, south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
It took an interstate regulation enforcement effort to establish and seize the suspect, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, a border “gotaway” accused in a spate of violent crimes focusing on girls.
He was wished for one more girl’s homicide in his native El Salvador and is accused of breaking right into a California home and raping a girl and her nine-year-old daughter there.
“I would never had imagine life taking such a turn. And now a new Trump administration is on the horizon with hope renewed for safety and security for our families and nation…who could have thought that Rachel’s story, her life, would help to change our country, bring us back to foundational truths and common sense. Looking forward with anticipation what the next four years will hold,” Morin mentioned.
Rachel Morin was dragged off a mountain climbing path Aug. 5, 2023, and brutally murdered. (Household handout)
She has been to the Capitol quite a few instances over the previous 12 months, testifying earlier than Congress and pleading for a crackdown on migrant crime.
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Earlier this month, a few of these efforts paid off with the passage of the Laken Riley Act, named for one more younger girl whose suspected killer was an unlawful immigrant. Like Rachel Morin, Georgia nursing pupil Riley was attacked by a stranger whereas jogging.
Victor Martinez Hernandez after his arrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has since been extradited to Maryland to face justice within the homicide of Rachel Morin. (Tusla Police Division)
“By amending Federal law as stated in the Laken Riley Act, it provides stronger provisions for apprehending criminal illegal immigrants and provides injunctive relief for states and citizens who have suffered under the Biden-Harris open border disaster,” Morin mentioned. “I am very encouraged that Congress is finally taking measures to protect American families and to ensure safer communities.”
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“It was a slap in the face of the American citizens who lost loved ones when 159 Democrats chose to protect criminal illegal immigrants instead of the American citizens they were elected to protect. Shameful!” she added.
