Angel mom Patty Maurin, whose 37-year-old daughter Rachel Maurin was allegedly raped and murdered by illegal immigrant MS-13 gang members, told the House Judiciary Committee that the federal government must close the U.S.-Mexico border.
Patty recounted her daughter's life story to the committee, saying that in August 2023, Rachel went for a jog on a trail in Bel Air, Maryland, that her family had frequented for decades. Rachel never returned home and was soon reported missing.
In June 2024, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrested Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, 23, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador with ties to the MS-13 gang, for Rachel's murder. Patty said her daughter was raped and murdered in what is considered the most horrific crime in Maryland history.
“He crossed the border three times. [and] “They said if they had used a cheek swab for DNA testing, this person[n] He has an Interpol warrant out for his arrest for the murder of a woman in El Salvador, which is why he fled to the United States.
After he murdered my daughter, he stayed in the same town where he murdered her, continued to work in the restaurant, changed his appearance, and we conducted a nationwide search… I wish there was a way for me to show you pictures of her, what she looked like, what the crime scene looked like.
This is the most brutal crime ever committed in the state of Maryland and will remain in their memory. Her children are heartbroken. Our whole family is heartbroken. It's a nightmare.
Patty described the brutal crime that happened to her and said it was nothing compared to the rape and murder of her daughter.
“I want to tell you another story. This one happened in 1975,” Patty began, “A 14-year-old girl was kidnapped from her home by a criminally insane man. She was kidnapped. She walked 60 miles with this man to the Canadian border. They walked through the woods with no food or water.”
She was raped multiple times at night. Her parents and the police never thought they would ever find this girl, or that she would be alive if they did. I am that teenager, and I can say with certainty that what I suffered as a teenager at the hands of a psychopathic man cannot compare to the horrors my daughter has suffered.
Patty has blamed open borders for her daughter's rape and murder, and appears to be accusing Democrats of being “indifferent” to the issue for partisan reasons.
“They are Americans, they are American families, they are our children, and soon to be our grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” Patty said. “The border needs to be closed. Even if I can get away with a crime committed by an American citizen, if these people coming across the border are in here illegally, it's because they're hiding something.”
“we [the border]”We need to put back into place the policies that have kept our people safe,” Patty said, referring to former President Donald Trump's border policies.
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