Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again.

A crime scene in Orange, Calif., on April 2, 2021, in a file photo. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

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In June, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked down the accused repeat offender with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a 9-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to the United States illegally to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022.