A family member of slain Maryland mother-of-five Rachel Morin says that President Joe Biden has blood on his hands after authorities charged an illegal migrant with murdering her sister – just one of many migrant-related crimes this week.
Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested on June 14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in connection with the 37-year-old’s killing after her naked body was found on a Maryland hiking trail almost a year ago.
The case had remained a mystery for 10 months after Morin was reported missing by her boyfriend in August 2023.
Emily Morin Lyman, the half-sister of Morin, said that President Joe Biden and his administration are directly to blame for her sister’s brutal rape and murder.
‘As far as I am concerned, the Biden administration has the blood of Rachel Morin on their hands,’ she said Friday morning on Fox & Friends.
This week alone, at least three migrants in the U.S. illegally have been charged with rape, murder or both – and another pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old.
According to detectives, Hernandez was believed to be hiding near a popular hiking trail when he allegedly murdered Morin.
Morin’s naked and battered body was found on the Ma and Pa hiking trail in Bel Air, Maryland, around 45 miles north of Baltimore, the day after she was reported missing.
He allegedly attacked, raped and killed her before fleeing the state, and the Tulsa Police Department said he was tracked down to Oklahoma after officials in the state were contacted by the FBI.
Hernandez illegally crossed the southern border in February 2023 after he allegedly murdered another woman in El Salvador a month earlier.
He is also accused of attacking a nine-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles before Morin’s murder.
Speaking on Fox News this week, Morin’s mother Patty called out Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for referring to Rachel as an ‘individual’ instead of using her name during a CNN appearance.
‘It’s a completely political statement because they’re not even willing to acknowledge that she was a mother, a daughter,’ Patty said.
‘It totally depersonalizes her and makes her an object,’ she continued.
But according to Lyman, former President Donald Trump called the grieving family after the alleged rapist and murderer was arrested and spoke to them for a half hour about their tragedy.
‘We are happy and honored that President Trump did call the family. I didn’t speak to him personally, but I heard the call went amazing,’ Lyman told Fox News. ‘It was a good half hour.’
Lyman said Trump was heartfelt and sincere in the conversation, and that she appreciates how he mentions her late sister at his rallies sometimes.
The former president has been very outspoken about the impact Biden’s policies have had on the country, often invoking the term ‘migrant crime’ at campaign appearances.
Trump has described it as a new type of crime that begun under Biden that involves migrants in the country illegally who attack Americans.
Roughly 10 million migrants have been encountered by federal authorities attempting to enter the U.S. in the 3.5 years Biden has been in power.
It is by far the most amount of illegal crossings in the U.S. history and Mayorkas himself has said the border is in a state of crisis.
Tragically, Morin’s murder is not the only instance of migrant crime making headlines this week.
Two migrants were charged this week for the rape and murder of Jocelyn Nungary a 12-year-old Texas girl.
Both are migrants from Venezuela who were released into the country despite being intercepted by border agents.
Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, was fitted with a GPS ankle monitor by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after he crossed at El Paso in Texas on May 28, but he had cut it off by the time the pair were arrested for killing Jocelyn Nungaray.
Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, was also released after being intercepted by border agents on March 14, little more than three months before Jocelyn’s body was found floating in a creek near her Houston home on Monday.
The pair were charged with capital murder on Thursday, and investigators are awaiting the result of tests to confirm whether Jocelyn was raped as well as murdered.
Authorities say that the 12-year-old was strangled to death early Monday morning and was found later that morning under a bridge near a creek around Houston.
Her grieving mother, Alexis Nungary, is now struggling to process what has happened.
‘It’s like it’s not real,’ she told Click2Houston. ‘I keep hearing everything, and I hear it and it’s not registering.’
She recalled telling her daughter on Sunday not to stay up too late, as she was joining her at work the next day. Those would be the last words she ever spoke to her daughter.
Another migrant who entered the country illegally was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in the Queens neighborhood of New York City this week after brandishing a machete at the kid.
Though he was apprehended in Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2021 while crossing into the U.S. illegally, he was given a court date and released into the country.
Luckily, a group of good samaritans jumped into action after the young girl cried for help and began beating up the migrant charged with rape, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25.
Inga-Landi crawled under a nearby car in a bid to escape the blows of six outraged locals.
Jeffrey Flores, 24, one of the good samaritans that intervened on behalf of the child said the alleged rapist ‘was yelling for help… he kept saying ‘Help!’… and I said, ‘That’s what the little girl was saying.”
Flores is now in line to collect a $10,000 reward offered by the NYPD for Inga-Landi’s successful capture.
He told DailyMail.com that he’d contacted police about the cash and says they’ll get back to him within days.
Flores added: ‘I didn’t do it for the reward, I did it for the people.’
Additionally, another illegal immigrant this week pleaded guilty to raping a 12-year-old in Iowa.
Junior Manuel Dubon Benitez, 18, a Honduran who crossed illegally into the U.S. in April 2022, was arrested on February 14 for suspected ‘sexual abuse upon Jane Doe a 12 year old child.’
Court documents indicate the attack happened at a home in Waterloo, Iowa.
The Honduran took a plea deal for third-degree sexual abuse and faces up to 10 years in prison, according to the Washington Examiner.