As criticism mounts over the Trump administration’s failure to heed a court order commanding the government to “facilitate” the return of a man who was mistakenly deported and incarcerated in a Salvadoran prison, the White House attempted to change the subject on Wednesday with an emotional appearance in the James Brady press briefing room by the mother of a murder victim who recounted graphic details of her daughter’s death at the hands of a Salvadoran gang member.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was accompanied at Wednesday’s briefiing by Patty Morin, a Bel Air, Maryland woman whose daughter, Rachel Morin, was raped and murdered in August 2023 by a MS-13 member, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez.
