Cruz Calls on Senate to Expeditiously Pass Justice for Jocelyn Act after Alexis Nungaray Testimony

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, issued the following statement after testimony in the House Judiciary Committee by Alexis Nungaray, the mother of Houstonian Jocelyn Nungaray. In June, 12-year-old Jocelyn was assaulted and murdered by two illegal aliens from Venezuela. The Justice for Jocelyn Act addresses the critical failures of the Department of Homeland Security's "Alternatives to Detention" program, which allowed Jocelyn's murder suspects to go free.

Sen. Cruz met with Alexis before she testified today.

Sen. Cruz said,"If the Justice for Jocelyn Act were law, Jocelyn Nungaray would be alive today. Americans were deeply moved today by Alexis's testimony in the House of Representatives, in which she recounted the horror that her daughter experienced. The illegal immigrants who committed those crimes were released into Texas by the Biden-Harris administration. The Senate should immediately take up and pass the Justice for Jocelyn Act, so that no parent ever has to go through what Alexis has gone through."

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