On Wednesday afternoon, the mother of Rachel Morin, 37, of Maryland, who was raped and murdered by members of the MS-13 gang, addressed reporters at the White House.
The White House announced that it would host a “special guest” just two hours before the briefing. White House spokesman Caroline Levitt said Patty Morin requested that her daughter’s story be shared with the media. Rachel’s attacker is convicted of slamming her on the head on a rock and then strangled her to death.
Morin explained the horrifying details of his daughter’s rape and murder.
“There’s a six-inch square behind my head where the skull is crushed like it crushes the eggshell,” Morin said. “There was no inch of her body that hadn’t been injured in any way.”
“This means nothing to them,” Morin said. Of her daughter’s murderers, she said he doesn’t seem to be worried about the potential consequences of the crime in court.
“When he was sitting in court, it seemed he actually thought he would be free,” she added.
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Morin addressed reporters in light of the blowbacks faced by the administration in March after the accidental deportation of a group of illegal alien criminals and Salvador National Kilmer Abrego Garcia. Garcia illegally came to the United States as a teenager around 2011 and was granted asylum in 2019 by an immigration judge despite previous court documents calling him a member of the MS-13. He lived from his arrival in Maryland until his deportation, and had a wife and children, an American citizen.
Federal judges ruling the administration are to return Garcia, and partial support for those orders from the Supreme Court to “promote” Garcia’s return from the Trump administration has not agreed to bring Garcia back to the United States. Salvadoran President Naive Buquel said he would not send Garcia back to the US when he visited the White House on Monday.
Levitt stressed what the White House said repeatedly on Wednesday afternoon: It won’t bring Garcia back to the US
“The Democrats and the media in this room have been continuously and mislabeling Kilmer Abrego Garcia as Maryland’s father. There’s no Maryland’s father,” Leavitt said. “There’s nothing to change the fact that Abrego Garcia won’t be Maryland’s father. He will never reside in America again.”
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Leavitt made it for the first time that Garcia’s wife petitioned the court to a protective order against her husband in May 2021.
The Trump administration has seen growing scrutiny on the issue, contrary to multiple court orders, about what is considered to be deported to those who legally live in the United States and whose lawyers say they have never been charged with a crime.
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