Former President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz credited the Biden administration’s “open border policies” for leading to a 12-year-old Houston girl’s murder at the hands of a couple of illegal aliens.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, U.S. border officials have been seeing record numbers of encounters with illegal aliens at the southern border, a dynamic that has lent itself to President Joe Biden’s “catch and release” approach to illegal immigration.
The porous border has gotten so bad that Texas had to take it upon itself to deploy its own border security measures via Operation Lone Star, which the federal government tried to challenge at every turn.
Here is some of what Holly Hansen of The Texan reported on the preventable murder and what the former president had to say about it:
Former President Donald Trump blamed the current president’s border policies for the murder of a 12-year-old Houston girl after two Venezuelan nationals in the country illegally were arrested and charged last week.
“Just this week, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, found strangled to death and dumped in a creek in Houston, allegedly murdered by two recent illegal border crossers from Venezuela, viciously murdered. These monsters should never have been in our country, and if I were president they would not have been in our country,” said Trump during a keynote speech at an event Sunday.
Trump’s comments at the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference came days after Houston Interim Police Chief Larry Satterwhite announced the arrest of Johan Jose Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, following an investigation into the strangulation death of Nungaray, whose body was found in a creek.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed that “Martinez and Pena both illegally entered the U.S. without inspection, parole or admission by a U.S. immigration officer on an unknown date and at an unknown location.”
Martinez was apprehended on March 14 near El Paso and then released with a GPS monitor. Sources told the New York Post he was ordered to appear for an asylum hearing in August, but that his monitor was reportedly deactivated in May.
Likewise, Pena Ramos was apprehended by Border Patrol agents on May 28 and was also released with a GPS monitor that was only programmed to monitor him for 21 days. He claimed that he feared returning to Venezuela.
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