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“Border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Houston, Texas, selecting to attend a dinner for a conference for academics somewhat than go to the grieving dad and mom of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was raped and murdered, allegedly by two migrants.
Nungaray was discovered strangled to dying June 17. Authorities recognized the suspects as two Venezuelan nationals — Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 21, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26.
Authorities beforehand confirmed the pair illegally entered the U.S. earlier this 12 months.
Harris’ go to to Houston got here because the vice chairman started a whirlwind marketing campaign tour after President Biden introduced he wouldn’t search re-election.
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Vice President Kamala Harris addresses the members of the American Federation of Lecturers at George R. Brown Conference Heart Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Houston. (Conley/Houston Chronicle through Getty Pictures)
Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, was discovered strangled to dying in a Houston creek. (Fox Houston courtesy of the Nungaray household)
Harris started her journey by greeting native leaders to be briefed on the area’s restoration efforts from Hurricane Beryl after which attended the American Federation of Lecturers’ (AFT) annual conference.
“And I thanks additionally to your help over time and for being the primary union to endorse me this week,” Harris stated.
The American Federation of Lecturers is the primary labor union to endorse Harris for president since she introduced her marketing campaign. (Montinique Monroe/Getty Pictures)
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Harris’ deal with highlighted her marketing campaign hot-button subjects, which included key elements of the Democratic Celebration platform, comparable to eliminating voter ID to broaden mail-in voting, banning assault rifles, defending LGBTQ+ rights and restoring nationwide entry to abortion.
“On this second throughout our nation, we witness a full-on assault on hard-won, hard-fought freedoms,” stated Harris.
“On this second, we’re in a combat for our most elementary freedoms. And to this room of leaders, I say carry it on. Convey it on. Convey it on.”
Jocelyn Nungaray’s mom, Alexis Nungaray, speaks after Pena Ramos’ courtroom look June 24, 2024. (KRIV)
Harris’ go to notably didn’t embrace a go to to Nungaray’s grieving dad and mom who, since her dying, have pleaded for a “safer nation” and referred to as for heightened border safety to forestall different households from struggling the identical destiny.
“We have now to cease burying our youngsters,” Jocelyn’s mom, Alexis Nungaray, stated tearfully on “Hannity.” “This isn’t proper. We have now to have extra reinforcement with regards to letting folks in. This isn’t OK.”
Jocelyn’s grandfather, Kelvin Alvarenga, turned his consideration on to lawmakers.
“Take into consideration all these little angels that should not have been taken away.”
“I would love the folks that may make modifications to our legal guidelines to simply sit again and mirror,” Alvarenga stated. “I don’t know if we will transmit the ache that we’re having by cameras, however please sit again and mirror and consider all these little angels that shouldn’t have been taken away, and so they have for the motive that we’re not doing what we must, screening these folks.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Westover Excessive College in Fayetteville, N.C., July 18, 2024. (Allison Joyce/AFP through Getty Pictures)
“Screening these folks” fell underneath Harris’ cost as “border czar” for the Biden administration.
“Border czar” is a casual title broadly granted to Harris in 2021 when Biden appointed her to deal with the “root causes” of unlawful immigration.
In July 2021, she launched a five-point normal technique to fight these “root causes” of unlawful immigration. The plan didn’t embrace particular insurance policies, however as a substitute referred to as for “diplomacy, international help, public diplomacy and sanctions” to “set up a good, orderly and humane immigration system.”
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The doc emphasised the “push” elements of migration, together with pure disasters in Central America, poverty, starvation, and gang violence, every of which contributes to folks leaving their houses seeking a greater life in America.
“In Central America, the basis causes of migration run deep — and migration from the area has a direct impression on the US,” Harris stated on the time. “For that motive, our nation should persistently have interaction with the area to deal with the hardships that trigger folks to depart Central America and are available to our border.”
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The Biden administration has pushed again towards categorizing Harris because the “border czar,” saying the vice chairman was by no means formally provided that title.
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“[Border apprehensions] are down by 55%. Not due to Republicans and what they did. It is due to what this president and this vice chairman did,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre instructed Fox Information’ Peter Doocy when pressed on Harris’ title.
“We’re going to debunk the false characterization of the vice chairman. She was not a border czar. And it is not simply us. Impartial fact-checkers have stated the identical factor — that that didn’t exist, and that’s not true.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on the Republican Nationwide Conference on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee July 17, 2024. (Reuters/Callaghan O’hare)
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott torched Harris’ go to to Houston, saying she “could not bother herself” to go to the southern border.
“Kamala Harris flew to Houston for a political rally, however could not bother herself to go a couple of hundred miles extra & see the injury she triggered to our border,” Abbott wrote in a put up on X.
“She refused to say Jocelyn Nungaray who was just lately killed by unlawful immigrants in Houston.”
Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza had simply turned 21 years outdated when she was killed. (GoFundMe)
Nungaray is amongst victims killed in migrant-related crime in the course of the Biden administration.
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In July, Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, a 21-year-old unlawful immigrant from Ecuador, allegedly murdered Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza at an Airbnb property in Syracuse, New York.
The grotesque crime was reportedly carried out on the sufferer’s twenty first birthday.
Laken Riley poses for a photograph posted to Fb. Riley, a nursing pupil on the College of Georgia, was discovered lifeless close to a lake on campus Feb. 22, 2024. (Allyson Phillips/Fb)
In February, 22-year-old Laken Riley was murdered when taking a run alongside dust trails on the College of Georgia campus in Athens.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old unlawful migrant from Venezuela, is dealing with 10 counts following the dying of Riley. The 26-year-old just lately pleaded not responsible within the dying of a school pupil.
Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested within the homicide of Rachel Morin.
In August 2023, Maryland mom Rachel Morin was allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered by Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, a 23-year-old unlawful El Salvadorian migrant.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Fox Information Digital that Hernandez had tried to enter the nation illegally 4 occasions after being accused of an identical homicide in his native El Salvador.
A whole lot of migrants try to cross the Mexico-U.S. border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 29, 2024. (David Peinado/Anadolu through Getty Pictures)
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The continued border disaster is a prime situation for voters forward of the November election. The Biden administration has pushed again towards Republican criticism, saying there was a 50% drop in unlawful immigrant crossings since Biden introduced an government order in June limiting crossings into the U.S.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the Harris marketing campaign and the White Home for remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Adam Shaw, Anders Hagstrom and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
