Rachel Morin’s mom blasted Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ for referring to her daughter, who was murdered by an unlawful migrant, as an “particular person” as an alternative of naming her in a Tuesday interview.
“It’s a totally political assertion as a result of they’re not even keen to acknowledge that she was a mom, a daughter,” Patty Morin informed Fox Information’ Laura Ingraham on Wednesday evening.
“It completely depersonalizes her and makes her an object,” stated Patty, who additionally revealed nobody from the Biden administration has reached out to her grieving household since her daughter’s alleged killer was arrested.
Alleged Salvadoran gang member Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, was busted Friday for allegedly killing the 37-year-old mother of 5 on a climbing path in August in Harford County, Md.
Rachel’s demise and Martinez-Hernandez’s arrest has sparked a brand new wave of concern about migrants pouring over the southern border.
On Tuesday, Mayorkas appeared on CNN and was requested about Rachel’s homicide and his response to critics blaming the administration’s insurance policies for violent crimes dedicated by migrants.
He referred to Morin as “the person” in his reply.
“At the start after all our hearts break for the youngsters, the family members and the buddies of the person who was murdered — the lady, the mom,” Mayorkas informed Jim Acosta.
“A legal is chargeable for the legal act,” he added. “The legal who dedicated this heinous act ought to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the legislation and forcefully so.”
His response drew the ire of Morin’s household.
“They only appear to be disconnected fully from what is going on on the southern border and the way it’s affecting People,” Morin household lawyer Randolph Rice stated throughout Wednesday evening’s interview on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“They’re hemorrhaging on the southern border they usually’re arguing about what sort of bandaid to placed on it when as an alternative they need to be placing a tourniquet on it and stopping this stream in order that we don’t have one other Rachel Morin,” Rice added.
Rachel was snatched off the Ma and Pa climbing Path in Bel Air, Md., and dragged into the woods, in keeping with investigators.
Her physique was present in a culvert Aug. 6.
Martinez-Hernandez had already been needed in a earlier killing in El Salvador and for assaulting a mother and younger lady in a brutal residence invasion in Los Angeles.
He’d been dwelling within the nation illegally since crossing by means of Mexico in 2023, officers stated.
Authorities discovered the profession legal “casually sitting on the bar” Friday evening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, cops stated.
He has been charged with first-degree homicide and first-degree rape in her demise.
Rachel’s sister informed The Publish this week she believes her sister’s alleged killer could have extra victims.