The mother of Rachel Morin, the 37-year-old mother of five who was murdered while hiking in Maryland, praised House legislators for passing the Laken Riley Act in an interview with Newsmax on Wednesday.
The bill, named after the Georgia nursing student killed by a Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally, would require that undocumented immigrants who are charged with theft or burglary be detained.
The alleged killer of Rachel Morin, Victor Martinez Hernandez, reportedly entered the U.S. illegally in early 2023 while fleeing an arrest warrant for the murder of a woman in his home country of El Salvador.
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