Central Montana Times

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference, criticizing President Biden and Senate Democrats for the southern border crisis that he claims is allowing violent criminals to enter the country illegally and commit violent crimes against Americans.

“‘More fair, and more just.’ That’s what Joe Biden called his immigration policies that he started rolling out today," said Daines. "But today I ask, ‘Where is fairness and justice for Rachel Morin?’ She was the Maryland mom who was raped and killed by Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez. Hernandez wasn’t just any street thug. He committed murder in El Salvador. He then came across our southern border illegally. A few weeks later, he committed a home invasion in Los Angeles. And then a few months after that, he murdered and raped Rachel Morin, a mom of five, while she was out walking on a trail in Maryland, eerily similar to Laken Riley’s murder in February."

Daines continued by referencing another case: “Laken Riley was a nursing student in Georgia who was murdered while out on a run by another illegal who was just freely roaming our streets.”

He concluded with strong words regarding the current administration: “Sadly, this is Joe Biden’s America and it’s Joe Biden’s border crisis. We have terrorists, we have violent criminals coming across the southern border who are raping and murdering Americans. Where is the justice for Rachel Morin? Where is the justice for Laken Riley? The American people are going to right this wrong by holding Joe Biden and Senate Democrats accountable in November.”