A House hearing on the Biden-Harris border crisis on Tuesday heard testimony from victims of crimes stemming from illegal immigration, including the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl who was found strangled to death in Texas in June by what authorities say were two Venezuelan illegal immigrants.
Alexis Nungaray recalled how she found her daughter in a Houston creek on June 17.
“They strangled her to death. She was unclothed from the waist down. They tied her hands and ankles and threw her under the water bridge as if she were nothing more than garbage,” the mother told the committee.
Two Venezuelan nationals – Johan José Martínez-Rangel, 21, and Franklin José Peña Ramos, 26 – have been charged with capital murder in the death of Jocelyn Nungaray. The two men reportedly crossed into the United States illegally earlier this year.
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Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, was found strangled to death in a Houston creek on June 17. (Fox Houston courtesy of the Nungaray family)
“Because of the Biden-Harris administration's open border policies of catch and release, they were enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program,” Alexis Nungaray said. “That meant they were released into the United States. It hadn't even been three weeks when my daughter Jocelyn Nungaray's life was taken.”
Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, left, and Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel have been charged with the murder of Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas, on Monday, June 17. (Harris County Jail)
Alexis Nungaray told the committee he “can't even imagine” what his daughter was thinking, “the amount of fear she felt in the last moments of her life.”
“She did not deserve to have her life and our family's life taken away from her. She had her whole life ahead of her because of these open border policies,” the mother said.
Former President Trump met with Alexis Nungaray, mother of Jocelyn Nunagaray, the 12-year-old girl who was killed by what authorities say are undocumented immigrants, at the U.S.-Mexico border fence on August 22 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News ahead of the hearing that he will highlight the “real cost” of illegal immigration on communities across the United States and the “untold number of families who have suffered” due to the Biden-Harris administration's border policies.
“The cost to education systems, the cost to health care systems, and the personal losses that families have suffered because of the Biden administration, we now have an open border,” Jordan said. “And under the Biden-Harris administration.”
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Jordan said that “mothers who have lost a loved one to a violent crime committed by an illegal immigrant” would share their perspectives on the cost of an open border, adding that the Biden-Harris administration “let in 10 million people in three and a half years, 99 of them on the terrorist watch list.”
