Trump inauguration: Mother of jogger allegedly killed by migrant praises friendship with incoming president

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 passed off 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 expertise over the previous 12 months and a half. Dropping my daughter in such a grotesque and sudden approach, the wait and worry of ‘if’ a suspect would ever be caught, the worldwide consideration Rachel’s case has garnered, culminating in Congressional hearings and a friendship with President Trump,” Patty Morin informed 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.

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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 Photos)

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 an additional 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. 

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“I’d by no means had think about life taking such a flip. And now a brand new Trump administration is on the horizon with hope renewed for security and safety for our households and nation…who might have thought that Rachel’s story, her life, would assist to alter our nation, deliver us again to foundational truths and customary sense. Wanting ahead with anticipation what the subsequent 4 years will maintain,” Morin stated.

Rachel Morin was dragged off a climbing path Aug. 5, 2023, and brutally murdered.  (Household handout)

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She has been to the Capitol numerous occasions 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 an additional 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 regulation as acknowledged within the Laken Riley Act, it supplies stronger provisions for apprehending felony unlawful immigrants and supplies injunctive aid for states and residents who’ve suffered beneath the Biden-Harris open border catastrophe,” Morin stated. “I’m very inspired that Congress is lastly taking measures to guard American households and to make sure safer communities.”

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“It was a slap within the face of the Americans who misplaced family members when 159 Democrats selected to guard felony unlawful immigrants as a substitute of the Americans they had been elected to guard. Shameful!” she added.