{"id":15701,"date":"2025-10-04T17:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:17:56","slug":"leavitt-brings-out-mother-of-daughter-slain-by-illegal-migrant-to-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=15701","title":{"rendered":"Leavitt Brings Out Mother Of Daughter Slain By Illegal Migrant To Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of murdered Maryland woman Rachel Morin left the White House press corps in stunned silence Wednesday as she blasted her home state senator, Chris Van Hollen, for traveling to El Salvador to bring back a deported alleged MS-13 gang member.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"e1c09a52-67a1-44a3-a58e-fc2bf67380c6\" class=\"_ap_apex_ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t understand this,\u201d Patty Morin told reporters after graphically detailing the brutal 2023 murder of her 37-year-old daughter by 24-year-old Victor Martinez-Hernandez, a Salvadoran illegal immigrant who was convicted of the crime on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Morin said she was incensed that \u201ca senator from Maryland who didn\u2019t even acknowledge \u2014 or barely acknowledged \u2014 my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother\u201d chose to \u201cuse my tax money to fly to El Salvador to bring back a person \u2026 who isn\u2019t even an American citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<p>Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported last month after being apprehended in Prince George\u2019s County, just outside Washington, D.C., the New York Post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/16\/us-news\/rachel-morins-mom-rips-sen-chris-van-hollen-for-traveling-to-el-salvador-to-free-alleged-ms-13-gang-member-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the government of El Salvador continuing to imprison a man where they have no evidence that he\u2019s committed any crime and they have not been provided any evidence from the United States that he has committed any crime?\u201d Before Morin took the briefing room podium, Van Hollen made false claims to reporters. \u201cThey should just let him go.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<div id=\"as5808\" data-title=\"You Might Also Like\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Trump administration on Wednesday released several case files on Abrego Garcia, clearly identifying him as a member of the now-terrorist-designated MS-13 group. In addition, despite Van Hollen\u2019s assertion, Abrego Garcia committed the crime of entering the U.S. illegally and had a deportation order from a federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department initially claimed in court filings that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported, citing an October 2019 court order that had protected him from removal due to fears of violence from a rival gang in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2896204&amp;userid=17447&amp;loginid=15879&amp;playercolor=%23ee1a3b&amp;playersize=640&amp;code=5529932071cb6804bd1fe86f417b909a\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2896204&amp;userid=17447&amp;loginid=15879&amp;playercolor=%23ee1a3b&amp;playersize=640&amp;code=5529932071cb6804bd1fe86f417b909a\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But during a fiery back-and-forth on Tuesday with Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, top Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller said the DOJ attorney \u2014 since dismissed \u2014 was a \u201csaboteur\u201d who improperly claimed in court documents that Abrego was abducted by ICE due to an \u201cadministrative error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department\u2019s initial filing sparked a Democrat-led effort to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S., culminating in an April 10 Supreme Court ruling that directed the Trump administration to \u201cfacilitate\u201d his return and ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been wrongly deported.<\/p>\n<p>However, during a visit to the White House on Monday, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele dismissed the idea of returning Abrego Garcia as \u201cpreposterous.\u201d The Trump administration has also pointed out that the court stopped short of requiring them to \u201ceffectuate\u201d his return.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the ongoing public relations battle over Abrego Garcia\u2019s case, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Wednesday that he was accused of physically abusing his wife in 2021. While there is no known connection between Abrego Garcia and Martinez-Hernandez, Patty Morin said her daughter\u2019s murder underscores the importance of continuing Trump\u2019s efforts to deport alleged criminals living in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\">\n<div data-delay=\"4000\" data-block=\"12\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA lot of you don\u2019t know the whole story about Rachel and about the crime that was committed against her,\u201d said Morin, listed as a \u201cspecial guest\u201d at a White House briefing that was added to Wednesday\u2019s briefing.<\/p>\n<p>At the just-completed trial, \u201cwe saw layer upon layer upon layer of evidence against the accused and illegal immigrant from El Salvador,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe saw her. He saw that there was nobody around. He attacked her. He dragged her 150 feet, blood gushing from her head. It left a 150-foot trail of her blood to the culvert where he took he picked her up, he threw her against the wall, the tunnel, and he raped her,\u201d the grieving mother said, The Post noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we not protecting the American citizens? It\u2019s just common sense. Why are we not protecting our children?\u201d she asked while berating Van Hollen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of murdered Maryland woman Rachel Morin left the White House press corps in stunned silence Wednesday as she blasted her home state senator, Chris Van Hollen, for traveling &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}