After nearly a year of tracking, police arrested 23-year-old Victor Martinez Hernandez. He strolled into our country back in January 2023 after murdering a young woman in his home in El Salvador. Once here, Hernandez kept on doing his thing. "Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his anonymity, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles," said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler at a presser announcing the arrest. "And as everyone I believe is aware, that was our first DNA match linking Rachel's case to the one in Los Angeles."
Gahler went on to express my — and so many women’s — concerns: "We are 1,800 miles [away from] the southern border," Gahler said. "And American citizens are not safe because of [the Biden administration's] failed immigration policies."
Morin’s murder was not an isolated event. "This is the second time in two years that an innocent Harford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally," the sheriff noted. "In both cases, they are suspects from El Salvador with ties to criminal gangs. This should not be happening."
It shouldn’t be happening, but it is. There are many such cases. To name but a few recent examples:
Feb. 22, 2024, Athens, Ga.: Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, went for a run on campus. Venezuelan Jose Antonio Ibarra kidnapped her and bludgeoned her to death.
Dec. 5, 2023, Jackson County, Texas: Rafael Govea Romero, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, broke into 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina’s apartment, which she shared with her mother. There, he stabbed the girl to death and left her bloody body in the bathtub for her mother to find that evening.
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uly 18, 2018, Brooklyn, Iowa: Cristhian Bahena Rivera, another illegal immigrant from Mexico, followed 20-year-old Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts, who was going for a run, in his car before waylaying and murdering her. He left her body in a cornfield.
July 27, 2022, Frederick, Md.: An unnamed 17-year-old, who sublet part of the home of 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton from another illegal alien, raped her and then strangled her to death with a phone-charging cord. He had entered the country illegally the year before, despite his affiliation with MS-13 in his homeland of El Salvador.
Kayla’s mother, Tammy Nobles, is suing the Biden Dept. of Homeland Security for $100 million for allowing the murderer into the country as an unaccompanied minor child. She says the DHS had only to look at the teen’s tattoos to realize he was in a gang.