The family of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five who was killed while jogging near her home last summer, spoke at the Republican National Convention as the program focused its attention on immigration and crime in its second day.
Rachel Morin was killed while going for a run near her home in August of last year. Prosecutors and police have said she had been strangled and beaten, with Harford County State Attorney Allison Healey saying in court that it was one of the most brutal offenses in the county’s history.
“This beautiful trail was to us a safe place where we pushed our babies in strollers, where we walked together as a family, where my wife and I got married near what would later become the spot where my sister's body was found,” Rachel Morin’s brother, Michael Morin told the crowd in Milwaukee.
The suspect in her death, 23-year-old Victor Martinez Hernandez, had entered the country illegally after fleeing his home country of El Salvador after he had allegedly killed a woman there. Morin’s case has been seized on by Republicans in a series of deaths allegedly caused by undocumented immigrants that they charge the Biden administration of causing with lax border policies.
“Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous, but there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother,” Morin said.
According to several members of the family, including Michael Morin, the Biden administration has not yet reached out to them.
There have been multiple high-profile crimes committed by people who immigration officials have said were in the country illegally over the last year. Other cases include the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a 25-year-old Michigan woman who was killed in March, the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Texas and the rape of a 13-year-old girl in New York City.
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