Tulsa, Oklahoma, police recently arrested a thrice-deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant for the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five, found dead in August 2023 on a Bel Air, Maryland, trail. Yet within days of the suspect’s June 14 arrest, and his extradition back to Maryland, President Joe Biden had issued a potentially unconstitutional amnesty for nearly 500,000 additional aliens and waived deportation of 350,000 more. 

Critics noticed. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), called Biden’s amnesty a “sham,” noting that “rolling out this unlawful order for mass amnesty as the country mourns the death of Rachel Morin at the hands of an illegal migrant is a disgrace.” Stephen Miller, an immigration point man in former President Donald Trump’s White House, dubbed the Biden policy an “unconstitutional amnesty to illegal aliens during a border invasion.” The former president and 2024 Republican nominee-in-waiting charged that “Biden is preparing to give MASS AMNESTY to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens” and called the move “unsustainable.”