Austin News

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, issued a statement following testimony by Alexis Nungaray before the House Judiciary Committee. Alexis Nungaray is the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old from Houston who was assaulted and murdered in June by two illegal immigrants from Venezuela.

The Justice for Jocelyn Act seeks to address failures in the Department of Homeland Security’s “Alternatives to Detention” program, which allowed Jocelyn’s alleged murderers to remain free.

Sen. Cruz met with Alexis prior to her testimony. He stated, “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.”