Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, left for a jog in her sleepy Maryland community on Aug. 5, 2023, and never came home.
Police found her brutalized remains stuffed in a culvert and, after a months-long investigation, identified her suspected killer as an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who is also accused of murder in his home country and raping a mother and her 9-year-old daughter in Los Angeles.
The case attracted national attention even before the suspect was identified as a migrant from El Salvador, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23. Afterward, former President Trump expressed his condolences to the family and invited Morin’s mother, Patty, as well as other victims’ relatives to the southern border.
The panel’s top-ranked Democrat, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, appeared to nod off at one point, closing his eyes, lowering his head and irking spectators. More than a year after the murder, neither President Biden nor Vice President Harris have contacted the family, Patty Morin told Fox News Digital.
“It showed what the attitude of the entire Democratic Party is,” said Cathie Groenewold, Morin’s church friend who took the picture. “And they thought we were using this as a stunt, or the Republicans were using this as a stunt, but I’m sorry, these women are drawing attention to a serious issue.”
Patty Morin said she traveled to the Capitol in a bid to get lawmakers to take the border crisis more seriously. If routine protocols had been followed – like taking a DNA swab and a photo of Martinez-Hernandez when he was stopped at the border – her daughter could still be alive.
That’s because Interpol already had an arrest warrant with his name on it in connection with another woman’s death.
“I realize some of you are disinterested in this because you just think it’s a partisan thing, but these are American people,” Morin told lawmakers at the hearing. “We need to close the borders. … These people that are coming over the border, if they’re coming over illegally, it’s because they have something to hide.”
She said migrants who immigrate through the legal process are vetted to protect both themselves and the American public.
“I just left the southern border,” she continued. “When I spoke to Border Patrol, and they showed me their gunshot wounds. They told me their stories about how they suffered broken necks, broken backs, fractured skulls. It’s a war zone there, and we need to close it. We need to put those policies back into place that kept our citizens safe.”
She even revealed publicly for the first time that she survived a kidnapping herself as a child in an effort to convince lawmakers to do something about the threat of violence against women.
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