The Biden-Harris House hearing on the border crisis on Tuesday heard testimony from victims of crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants, including the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl found strangled to death in Texas in June, who authorities say was killed by two illegal Venezuelan immigrants.
Alexis Nungarei recalled finding her daughter in a creek in Houston on June 17.
“My daughter had been strangled. She was naked from the waist down. Her hands and feet were tied and she had been thrown under a bridge like trash,” her mother told the commission.
Two Venezuelan nationals, Johan Jose Martinez Rangel, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, have been charged with murder in the death of Jocelyn Nungaray after they reportedly entered the United States illegally earlier this year.
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Jocelyn Nangaray, 12, was found strangled to death in a creek in Houston on June 17. (Courtesy of Fox Houston and the Nungarei Family)
“Because of the Biden-Harris administration's open border policy, capture and release policy, they were enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention Program,” Alexis Nungaray said, “which means they were released into the United States. And less than three weeks later, they took the life of my daughter, Jocelyn Nungaray.”
Franklin Jose Peña Ramos (left) and Johan Jose Martinez Rangel are charged with murdering Jocelyn Nungaray on Monday, June 17, in Houston, Texas. (Harris County Jail)
Alexis Nungarei told the commission she “cannot imagine” what her daughter was thinking or “how terrified she must have been in those final moments of her life”.
“My daughter's life and the lives of our family should not be taken away because of the open borders policy. Her life was meant to be beginning,” her mother said.
On August 22, former President Trump met with Alexis Nunagaray, the mother of Jocelyn Nunagaray, a 12-year-old girl who was killed by people authorities said were illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border fence south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox News ahead of the hearing that the hearing will highlight the “true cost” of illegal immigration to communities across the US and the “countless families who have suffered” because of the Biden-Harris administration's border policies.
“The costs to our education system, our health care system, the personal toll that families have taken because of the Biden administration. Now the border is open,” Jordan said. “Under the Biden-Harris administration.”
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Jordan said “mothers who have lost loved ones to violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants” will weigh in on the cost of open borders, adding that the Biden-Harris administration has “allowed 10 million people into the country in three and a half years, 99 of whom are on terrorist watch lists.”
