Texas mom recounts how migrant ‘monsters’ raped, strangled daughter, 12

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A Texas mother broke down while telling U.S. Congress about her daughter’s brutal murder, allegedly by two illegal immigrants from Venezuela, and accused the Biden-Harris administration of being “responsible” for her death.

Alexis Nungaray recounted to lawmakers how her 12-year-old daughter Jocelyn Nungaray was sexually assaulted, killed, then dumped in a bayou outside Houston.

“She was strangled to death. She had no clothing from the waist down,” the devastated mother said, according to the New York Post.

“Her hands and her ankles were tied and thrown under the bridge of water like she was nothing but garbage.”

The two suspects, Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, and Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, allegedly bound the girl’s hands before the assault and slaying.

The alleged attackers illegally entered the United States earlier this year and were released into the country, officials said.

Pena Ramos claimed he feared for his safety if he was sent back to Venezuela, while Rangel Martinez was fitted with an ankle monitor. However, authorities removed it after determining he had no known criminal past, the Post reported.

“Because of the Biden-Harris administration open border policies, catch and release, they were enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program,” Nungaray said of Jocelyn’s suspected killers.

“This meant that they were released into the United States,” she continued, noting, “It was not even a full three weeks later that they would take my daughter Jocelyn Nungaray’s life.”

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Surveillance footage showed the girl and the two men walking near a bridge over the bayou.

The men were later seen leaving the area, with Jocelyn nowhere to be seen.

“They were down there for two whole hours,” Nungaray said. “I can’t even fathom what was going through Jocelyn’s mind — the amount of fear she was feeling in the last moments of her life.”

The mother added: “Individuals like that do not have heart. They are nothing but monsters who are predators, and those are the kind of individuals that we so openly let into this country.”