The daughter of Mexican immigrants spoke at the Biden-Harris House hearing on the border crisis on Tuesday, speaking on behalf of an 11-year-old girl who authorities say was brutally raped and murdered at the hands of illegal immigrants, and complaining about how Democratic policies are giving “good immigrants a bad name.”
Crime victims advocate April Aguirre spoke before the House Judiciary Committee alongside mothers who say President Biden and Vice President Harris' border policies have led to the deaths of their children.
“As the daughter of immigrant parents, I am ashamed of what the Biden-Harris Administration has done to our country by opening the border to everyone, including criminals who are wolves in sheep's clothing,” Aguirre testified.
Aguirre spoke on behalf of Maria Gonzalez, an 11-year-old immigrant who was living with her father in Houston when authorities say illegal immigrants from Guatemala broke into her home and killed her by putting her in a plastic bag inside a laundry basket and shoving her under her father's bed.
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Rep. April Aguirre told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that she feels the Biden-Harris administration's border policies are failing girls. (House of Representatives Judiciary Committee)
“Maria was covered in bruises and had to go buy a funeral dress to hide the damage that this man had done to her. Maria lost a nail in the fight, but she is a migrant child,” Aguirre recounted to the committee.
According to Pasadena police, the medical examiner determined that Maria Gonzalez died of asphyxiation and had also been sexually assaulted. (FOX 26 Houston)
“Can you imagine these girls resisting and trying to push back a grown man? The shock of being stripped naked, the pain of being beaten and choked, fighting for their lives while their predator's only goal is to use them to satisfy his sick and deranged desires,” Aguirre told the committee. “These girls deserve to be protected. They deserve to live without fear. They deserve to die a natural death of old age.”
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Aguirre blasted the Biden-Harris administration's policies, saying they ignore the “monsters” crossing the border illegally and “give all of us good immigrants a bad name.”
“We don't screen people, so we let anything through the border. Citizens and immigrants alike are victimized,” Aguirre said. “We're not against immigrants, we're against unscreened immigrants.”
When Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) asserted that Aguirre and the families of other victims were being exploited by Republicans, Aguirre called it an “insulting” assumption.
“You made some very crude statements that insulted these people who lost loved ones, who lost children, but we want to see a difference,” Aguirre said, retorting to Escobar. “We may not understand everything that's going on, but I guarantee you that we're not being taken advantage of.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox News ahead of the hearing that the Biden-Harris administration has “allowed 10 million people into the country in three and a half years, and 99 of them are on terrorist watch lists.”
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Jordan said the testimony of mothers and families who spoke at the hearing will help highlight the “true costs” of illegal immigration in communities across the country.
Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
