Patty Morin, the mother of murdered Maryland woman Rachel Morin, recounted her daughter’s brutal death and delivered a searing critique of the media, failed immigration enforcement, and political leaders she says failed her family.

“She was raped. She was strangled. There wasn’t a part of her body that didn’t have some kind of bruise, abrasion, cut,” Morin told Fox News Digital, recounting the horrific details revealed during the trial of Victor Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, who was recently found guilty of raping and murdering Morin in August 2023. 

The jury returned a unanimous verdict in 46 minutes after a weeklong trial that exposed the graphic details of the crime and the cross-country manhunt that followed.

For Morin, the pain of her daughter’s story became a driving force behind her call for immigration reform. 

“Their silence and their actions or lack of actions speak volumes to their character and the values that they hold.”

Sen. Van Hollen, Rep. Garcia, Rep. Frost, Rep. Dexter and Rep. Ansari have all gone to El Salvador. (Getty/Fox News Graphics Dept.)

Morin called Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., flying to El Salvador last week to defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia – an alleged illegal immigrant, MS-13 gang member – “despicable.”

Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona and Maxine Dexter of Oregon flew to El Salvador on Monday to support Garcia, who was deported from Maryland.

“They would rather champion his cause, a criminal, than the victim,” she said. “Americans and especially Marylanders are outraged. This political stunt that he’s pulled.”

“It makes me angry just talking about it because it shows that I’m of no value, my daughter is no value to them, and she was very precious to me.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Van Hollen.

Rachel Morin was exercising on the Ma & Pa Trail in Harford County, Maryland when she was savagely killed by an illegal migrant.   (Harford County Sheriff’s Office)

Through tears, Morin spoke about how her Christian faith has sustained her through loss.

“I know that there is a God and that He’s sovereign over all things… I want to glorify God with my life and my words.”

As she looks to the future, Morin said that she plans to rest and regroup after months of media appearances.

“I’m tired. I’m actually going to go away for a couple of weeks just to emotionally rest,” she said. “But I had to speak and tell the truth because I couldn’t allow another life to perish because I didn’t say something.”

Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.