CHR - Rachel Morin Might Be Alive If Homeland Security Had Complied With Border Law

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While legacy media fixates on Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they missed an even larger story: the Border Agency’s willful failure to enforce DNA collection from those who enter the US illegally. 

The DNA law is one of the most effective tools available to identify violent criminals and reduce child trafficking. As Homeland Security whistleblowers told us, “Americans are dead and these deaths were preventable,”

DEEP DIVE

This week, Rachel Morin’s killer was convicted by a Maryland jury in under an hour.   The evidence was overwhelming. 

They found Victor Martinez-Hernandez guilty of first-degree pre-mediatated murder, first-degree rape, third-degree sexual offense and kidnapping in the 2023 murder of the mother of five.

While legacy media heralded the case of Garcia, who some outlets described as a “Maryland Man,” but the President describes as a gang member of MS-13, Rachel’s mother joined the White House briefing.

Patty Morin described how Martinez-Hernandez lay in wait on Maryland’s ‘Ma & Pa’ hiking trail and hammered Rachel’s skull with rocks, crushing it like an egg shell.

“There was not one inch of her body that did not have some type of injury,” Patty Morin explained to White House reporters, adding that after bashing her skull, Martinez-Hernandez raped her daughter.

What’s striking to me is that Rachel Morin might be alive today if the Department of Homeland Security had complied with its own DNA collection laws for illegal entries. 

In one of our first investigations on X, which reached over 40 million views, Customs and Border Protection whistleblowers Fred Wynn, Mark Jones and Mike Taylor said the failure of Homeland Security to comply with the 2005 DNA collection law was likely a contributing factor in Rachel Morin’s murder.

Under the 2005 DNA Fingerprint Act, which both republican and democratic administrations have failed to enforce (reasons vary from politics to logistics,) DNA is collected from illegal entries via a cheek swab.  It’s then sent to an FBI lab for processing.    

The DNA collection takes 30 seconds and the FBI provided kits cost less than $5 a pack.   The DNA database is one of the most valuable law enforcement tools that identifies suspects in violent crimes including rape, assault and murder. It also reduces repeat violent offenders.

According to the whistleblowers, Antonio Martinez Hernandez from El Salvador had multiple encounters with border agents, but …

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