On Sunday, Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) blamed “broken immigration policy for the death of 37-year-old Rachel Morin, who was allegedly murdered by a Salvadorian illegal immigrant, saying that President Biden’s latest executive order on immigration is not “enough.”
Moore appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” to discuss the recent arrest of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Martinez-Hernandez is accused of raping and murdering Morin, a mother of 5.
Host Margaret Brennan asked Moore several questions about the incident, which occurred in his state, and played a clip from Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler which saw him push the Biden administration and Congress to do more to combat illegal immigration.
“We are 1800 miles of the southern border,” Gahler said. “And American citizens are not safe because of their failed immigration policies.”
“My heart is broken for the Morin family, as is our entire state. She should still be here, and the sheriff is absolutely right. I mean, we have an immigration policy that needed to have been dealt with and was not. And the consequences then fall on us as the chief executives of our states. The consequences fall on us as the leaders of our individualized jurisdictions. We know that we have got to fix a broken immigration policy and we know that we need Congress to act on this,” Moore said.
“This is why this was so unbelievably frustrating. When you have a coalition that is a bipartisan coalition of both Democrats and Republicans that get literally right up to the line to be able to get a deal done, that because you had President Trump who said this was not advantageous politically, that the deal was killed. There is an unbelievable frustration, and this is what people don’t like about politics. We’ve got to get this deal done and we need Congress to act on it.”
Brennan then asked Moore about the border crisis at large, asking if he agreed with Biden’s executive action on immigration which will pause new asylum requests once the daily average hits over 2,500 migrants per week, and will resume asylum requests when the daily average falls back to 1,500 migrants.
“I agree with the executive action. I also just know it’s not going to be enough. This is not politics. Politics should not get in the way of public safety. And I know for all of us who have to deal with the downstream impacts of broken policies, that we know that we need Congress to act on this,” Moore responded.
RTM previously reported that Morin was found dead by authorities in August 2023 near a popular hiking trail in Harford County, MD. Martinez-Hernandez was arrested late Friday night, and has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
In February 2023, Martinez-Hernandez illegally crossed into the U.S. after murdering a woman in El Salvador the month prior. CBS News reported that Interpol issued an arrest warrant for the murder but he went on to allegedly assault a 9-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles a month after crossing into the United States.
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