FIRST ON FOX: The mother of a female who was allegedly killed by a Salvadoran illegal immigrant has written to Vice President Kamala Harris calling connected her to "take contiguous action" to adjacent nan separator and require nan removal of millions of forbidden immigrants.
"I request that you return contiguous action coming and motion an executive bid closing our confederate border. Furthermore, require each azygous personification who has entered our state illegally complete nan past 3 and half years to return to their location countries," Patty Morin says successful a letter to Harris, first obtained by Fox News Digital.
"The clip for decisive action is now. This is astir protecting our citizens and ensuring that nan immigrants who travel to America are present to lend to our awesome society."
‘OUR PEOPLE ARE DYING’: RACHEL MORIN'S MOM SOUNDS ALARM ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AFTER DAUGHTER'S MURDER
Patty Morin, who mislaid her daughter, testifies during a House Committee connected Homeland Security astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected Sept. 18, 2024. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Morin’s girl Rachel was killed while jogging successful Bel Air, Maryland, past year. Police recovered Rachel’s assemblage stuffed successful a culvert and, aft a months-long investigation, identified her suspected slayer arsenic an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who is besides accused of execution successful his location state and raping a mother and her 9-year-old girl successful Los Angeles.
He made 3 unsuccessful attempts to participate nan United States earlier making it across nan border connected Feb. 13, 2023, adjacent El Paso, Texas, authorities said.
The lawsuit is 1 of a number of high-profile crimes involving forbidden immigrants, drafting further attraction to nan ongoing effects of nan situation astatine nan confederate border, which saw grounds numbers travel into nan U.S. nether nan Biden administration. Critics blasted nan situation connected nan policies of nan administration.
In her letter, Morin described Rachel arsenic a "bright light, an American mom who adored her family and devoted her life to her 5 children."
CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE
"While we can’t bring Rachel back, we tin protect different American women, children, and families. This type of unit perpetrated by forbidden immigrants tin easy beryllium prevented," she says, besides reference nan letter successful a video.
In her letter, she tells Harris that she has "the opportunity to enactment now and prevention lives."
"The American group are watching and will retrieve if this opportunity for alteration is met pinch soundlessness aliases indifference," she says.
TOP HOUSE COMMITTEE SHREDS BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN ON BORDER CRISIS IN NEW REPORT: ‘ASSAULT ON THE RULE OF LAW’
Immigration and separator information is simply a apical rumor successful nan 2024 election, and polling shows erstwhile President Trump starring Harris connected nan rumor among voters.
Trump has promised to restart separator wall construction, which was halted by nan Biden administration, and motorboat a wide deportation programme if elected to nan White House.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Harris has thrown her support down a bipartisan separator information bill that would summation backing to nan separator and limit immoderate entries into nan U.S. She has hammered Trump for not supporting it, accusing him of torpedoing nan measure for governmental purposes. She has promised to motion nan measure if elected to nan White House.
Conservatives person said nan measure would enshrine precocious levels of forbidden immigration, and person alternatively pushed authorities passed successful nan House past twelvemonth that would besides summation backing but would drastically limit asylum and extremity nan usage of parole by nan administration.
While nan management has overseen a grounds number of separator encounters, it has precocious pointed to a crisp driblet by much than 55% since nan summertime to a statesmanlike proclamation signed by President Biden that constricted asylum claims into nan country, bringing numbers down to levels not seen since 2020.
Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
Adam Shaw is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital, chiefly covering migration and separator security.
He tin beryllium reached astatine adam.shaw2@fox.com aliases connected Twitter.