By Bond Robertson 
Briefly
- Donald Trump has criticized Joe Biden after two illegal immigrants were arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.
- The murder sparked a political dispute over immigration policy.
- The Biden campaign says Trump blocked a deal that would have strengthened border measures.
A bitter political battle between Democrats and Republicans. At the heart of it all: a 12-year-old girl named Jocelyn Nungarai, who was found murdered on Monday of this week.
Police said the 12-year-old sneaked out of his home at 9pm on Sunday and was found strangled to death on Monday morning. Houston.
The murder shakes the United States and causes a violent political uproar because of the two people who police believe are behind the murder. On Thursday, two illegal immigrants were arrested and charged with the murder of the 12-year-old, he wrote. NBC News.
Entered the United States illegally
A spokesman for the US immigration authorities told the channel that Johan Jose Rangel Martinez (21 years old) and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos (26 years old) crossed the border into the United States illegally.
Martinez was arrested by the US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas on March 14, but was released the same day. Pena was arrested by Border Patrol on May 28 near El Paso. He was also released.
This information has angered Republicans, who believe that Biden is doing little to stop cross-border migration from Mexico. Trump blames Biden's border policy for the murder:
-We have another murder of immigrants from the Biden tribes, and things are only going to get worse, and it's all the fault of “crooked” Joe Biden. “A disgrace to the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.
RASSER: Former President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP/NTB
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Biden responded
Biden on Friday responded to the campaign and pointed to Trump's role in stopping the bipartisan agreement that would have given the country its toughest border measures ever, according to Biden himself.
– Donald Trump is making Americans less safe by obstructing the border agreement, said Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for the Biden campaign.
Answers: US President Joe Biden. Photo: AP/NTB
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Jocelyn's murder joins a series of crime cases that have received great attention because they were committed by illegal immigrants in the United States recently.
A few days ago, an illegal immigrant was arrested and charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in broad daylight in New York. Another was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five from Maryland. In February, the killing of 22-year-old Laken Riley sparked an uproar for the same reason.
The mother is angry against Biden
An important political matter
Issues and immigration in particular are expected to play a major role in the US election campaign this fall.
This is despite research showing that an immigrant is less likely to end up in prison than someone born in the United States, he writes. NPR He refers to several studies.
Researchers at the CATO Research Institute in the US found that an illegal immigrant was 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime.
Research by The New York Times and The Marshall Project also showed that there was no link between illegal immigrants and an increase in crime between 2007 and 2016.