The Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas downplayed illegal immigrant crime just days before two illegal immigrants allegedly murdered a young girl in Houston.
Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), a Senate candidate challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in November, minimized illegal immigrant crime in a radio interview with host Dean Obeidallah on June 5, less than two weeks before 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was strangled to death.
“You’ll also hear Texans in our border communities, whether it’s Brownsville, or Laredo, or El Paso, who will …l tell you that this idea that their communities are just … riven with crime is completely wrong, right? And that’s not their experience,” claimed Allred.
Obeidallah went on to condemn former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party over their alleged “demonization” of illegal immigrants.
“One of the most distressing…
