Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, the 37-year-old mother of five who was murdered while hiking in Maryland told Newsmax on Saturday that President Donald Trump is trying to remove criminal illegal aliens “to protect American people and American families.”

In August of 2023, illegal alien Victor Martinez Hernandez raped and murdered Rachel while she was jogging on a wooded path in Maryland. Host Rita Cosby asked Morin to describe what happened to Rachel saying that it is important that viewers know what happened to her. Morin gave a detailed description of her daughter’s grisly murder at the hands of Hernandez and then proceed to clarify why Trump’s actions are so important.

“We do have at least 1.5 million known convicted criminals and those are whom President Trump is trying to remove to protect American people, American families, American children and women the most vulnerable in our culture is woman and children. That’s what he’s doing, that’s what we elect government officials for. We elect government to protect us and that’s what President Trump is doing,” Morin said during an appearance on “Saturday Report.”

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