“Why are we not protecting the American citizens, it’s just common sense. Why are we not protecting our children?
“To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge, or barely acknowledged, my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back and someone that’s not even an American citizen.
“Why does that person have more right than I do, or my daughter or my grandchildren?” Patty Morin questioned during an address with reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
Morin is the mother of a Maryland woman who was killed by an individual who entered the country illegally
Her daughter Rachel 2023 killing became a flashpoint in the presidential campaign last year, was a “special guest” of the White House at a previously unscheduled briefing with reporters.
The bereaved woman addressed reporters as the Trump administration seeks to go on offense over the case of an individual who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt opened the briefing by criticizing Democrats for their outrage over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man the administration had acknowledged in court documents it mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.
In her remarks to reporters, Patty Morin argued that deporting those in the country illegally was a matter of common sense and putting U.S. citizens first.
“Why should we allow violent criminals that have no conscience at all to murder our mothers, our sisters, our daughters?” Patty Morin said. “We are American citizens. We need to protect our families, our borders, our children.”
Patty Morin shared graphic details about her daughter’s death and how she was violently attacked. Her killer, Victor Martinez-Hernandez, was found guilty Monday. Martinez-Hernandez has been accused of illegally entering the United States from El Salvador.
The impromptu briefing came amid a firestorm over the government’s deportation of Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador national with no connection to Morin’s death.
Leavitt also highlighted documents released by the Department of Homeland Security that showed Abrego Garcia’s wife sought a restraining order against him in 2021. Maryland court records show the complaint was dismissed after Abrego Garcia’s wife did not show up in court.
The administration’s refusal to return Abrego Garcia has caused an uproar among Democrats and civil rights groups, which have accused the government of violating his rights and ignoring due process.
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