Posted on 04/16/2025 8:50:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The appearance by Patty Morin came as a federal judge threatened the Trump administration with a contempt-of-court investigation over its deportation flights to El Salvador.
Just hours after a federal judge threatened a contempt-of-court investigation over the Trump administration’s deportation flights, the White House sought to freeze the legal debate by reminding Americans of a heartbreaking case of a mother killed by an unauthorized immigrant.
White House officials called a special briefing on Wednesday in the press room to bring Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was killed while jogging on a trail in Maryland in 2023, to the podium. She recounted in detail how her daughter, a 37-year-old mother of five, was seized, raped and bashed in the head with rocks and ultimately strangled. Members of her family also appeared at the Republican National Convention last July.
An immigrant from El Salvador, Victor Martinez-Hernandez, was convicted in the case this week.
The story was a tragic one, and it has fueled Mr. Trump’s arguments about dangers posed by migrants and a debate about capital punishment. Nonetheless, the invitation of Ms. Morin seemed a somewhat transparent effort to suspend the arguments about whether the administration could lawfully send migrants to El Salvador with no due process, and whether it can defy the orders of district judges who order the flights halted.
Statistics show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes on American soil than American citizens, and Mr. Trump’s claims of a wave of violent crime committed by immigrants have not been supported by police or court data. But it is a popular talking point among Mr. Trump’s base of supporters, and he often brought out family members of victims during his presidential..
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War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
2+2=5
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” --George Orwell
If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.
Joe Biden is sharp as a tack.
Good.
Question: Has anyone heard from the leftist media such as MSNBC and CNN on whether they are still chanting “the Maryland Man Trump staffers abducted despite no evidence he was guilty of anything.” As I heard Stephanie Ruhle say and saw others quoted in soundbites.
Are they recanting, revising, or holding the lie line?
I watched 5 minutes of that poor woman’s list of the missing skull piece, the splattering of blood on the wall in the silhouette of her daughter’s head and shoulders slammed against it and the further brutality of the murder.
Dems should be——but aren’t——ashamed of themselves for taking sides with illegals like the one who killed her daughter. Shameful.
WOW - knock me over with a feather with the NYT publishing anything about this horrible murder. I would have put money on the odds of this just going in the “memory hole.”
The instant that a person enters the US illegally, they are criminals and not guaranteed due process...THAT'S for US citizens! Liberals keep on in their effort to invalidate US citizenship!
Why is it that Liberals don't get that it's BECAUSE of ‘illegal entry’ that these people are denied the rights, privileges and legal status of citizens!
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media with a Special Guest, Apr. 16, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/8OD85ZFNKy0
Powerful
FUNYT. The term you were looking for was ILLEGAL immigrant.
I’m hoping senator sh## for brains gets his release, boards the plane to come back, lands and both are arrested. The invader gets sent back and the senator goes to jail
These criminal savages can have a criminal record a mile long but, as long as the DemonKKKrat Party can get them out on the streets long enough, they can get their hands on a ballot so they can vote DemonKKKrat. For these savages, the ends justifies the means: as long as they vote DemonKKKrat.
There are no apologies. [Strike up the song, "Dixie."]
statistics also show blacks commit crimes against whites at a much higher rate than the reverse- yet pointing this out makes one racist to the NYSlimes...
Probably not. It’s very hard for a conservative to gain any traction in statewide races in Maryland.
The left is too stupid to pay any attention to the news and in general Van Hollow is a backbencher who does nothing except get re-elected.
I would question his claim partly on the basis that a large proportion of crimes are never solved, particularly when the perpetrator is from a group whose other members are afraid to "snitch" about the crime. Plus he appears to be talking about all immigrants. It's illegal immigrants who are the problem and they may have higher crime rates than the population at large (since many of them were already criminals before coming to the US).
In any case, if the illegal immigrants weren't here they would be committing no crimes on American soil.
Spot on
BS!
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