If a recently introduced Republican act had been in effect next month, Jocelyn Nungaray, the family of murder victim, would still be alive.
” In the wake of so much grief, Jocelyn gives me the strength to be her voice and demand justice”, said Alexis Nungaray, Jocely n’s mother, in a statement from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX ). ” Senator Ted Cruz‘s Justice for Jocelyn Act would have prevented Jocely n’s death. It would have prevented Jocelyn from being with us today and prevented her two assassins from being on the road.
A new bill is being introduced by Democratic lawmakers from Texas that would make it easier for federal government to monitor illegal immigrants entering the country after they leave the southern border.
Cruz and Rep. The Justice for Jocelyn Act, which was introduced on Thursday by Texas Senator Troy Nehls, was introduced in response to the murder and crime of Nungaray, whose suspected killers were illegal immigrants.
Offenders Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22,  , and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, were arrested in late June for the death of the Houston woman.
Both entered the country illegally earlier this spring and were permitted to remain in the country while awaiting immigration court proceedings, which may take several years to develop, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
” Jocelyn Nungaray’s tragic death was wholly preventable”, Cruz said in a statement. Despite having access to hundreds of available detention center rooms, the unlawful creatures charged with murdering her should have been held in ICE prison.
Nungaray was discovered dead earlier on June 16th. According to local news outlet KPRC, Nungaray had snuck out of her apartment later the preceding night and went to 7-Eleven, where she encountered the two offenders after they had partied at a nearby restaurant.
In order to remove DNA evidence, the two allegedly lured her to a secret place where they allegedly raped, strangled, and then dumped her body into a creek. One suspect apparently conducted a search before being detained by police to leave the United States.
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One suspect was wearing an ankle monitor when ICE released him at the borders. The other was given an ankle track, and the other had also received one, but it was only permitted to remove it three days after its release.
The Cruz-Nehls act would require that every ICE confinement sleep be filled so that no one who is detained for any reason will be able to deport the country. It would also mandate that all non-violent immigrants who are being monitored while in detention are tracked using a GPS device, leaving no chance of the device being removed as soon.
