White House Brings Out Mom of Woman Killed by Immigrant To Justify Rejection of Due Process
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt brought out Patty Morin during Wednesday’s briefing to justify the administration’s rejection of due process for undocumented immigrants.
Morin’s daughter, Rachel Morin, was raped and murdered by an undocumented immigrant named Victor Martinez-Hernandez in 2023. He was found guilty of the killing this week.
President Donald Trump and his administration have faced increasing pressure over their deportations of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador, where they are currently incarcerated in a mega-prison. None of the deportees appears to have been given due process. A 60 Minutes investigation found that at least 75% of the deportees have no criminal record. The Trump administration alleges all of them were in gangs.
One of those men is Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who, Leavitt and other administration officials say, is in MS-13. On Wednesday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) traveled to El Salvador to speak with officials there about his constituent’s fate and try to secure his release. Although the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling ordering the administration to “facilitate” his return, lawyers for the Department of Justice have been stalling.
Speaking in the briefing room, Patty Morin began by discussing the trial of her daughter’s killer, who, though he is a murderer, was nonetheless afforded due process.
“I sat for the last two weeks in her trial,” Morin said. “And we saw layer upon layer upon layer of evidence against the accused, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. And the things that we thought, well, maybe this might have happened. We didn’t know. But when we were at the trial, we got all the puzzle pieces. And I want to share some of those things with you.”
Morin went on to note that her daughter was a mother of five before recounting her daughter’s rape and killing in gruesome detail. She concluded her remarks by criticizing Van Hollen for traveling to El Salvador to try to obtain Abrego Garcia’s release.
“And to have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother, and now a grandbaby without a grandmother so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen,” she said. “Why does that person have more rights than I do or my daughter or my grandchildren? I don’t understand this.”
Leavitt took to the lectern and asked if any reporters had questions. One responded, “I have a question.”
Leavitt replied, “No,” and concluded the briefing.
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