Kayla Hamilton’s mother speaks out after migrant arrested in Rachel Morin murder case

The mother of a young Maryland woman who was allegedly killed by a migrant gang member a year before Rachel Morin was murdered by another accused migrant has a message for President Biden: Secure the border.

Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter was raped and strangled in 2022, told The Post on Monday that the federal government’s lax border policies are to blame for the unimaginable tragedies her family and Morin’s loved ones have experienced.

“This is happening because the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health are not doing their jobs and other agencies of power like the police and the government are not doing anything to prevent this,” Nobles said in an interview.

“And Biden is certainly not trying to prevent this kind of crime. He is the one who welcomes illegal immigrants here.

“Government agencies at the federal and local levels must take responsibility and put the American people first, not last. Our safety is not the first priority.”

Outcry over the country’s porous border has grown in recent days after 23-year-old Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an accused Salvadoran gang member, was arrested Friday for the rape and murder of 37-year-old Morin on a hiking trail in Maryland last August.

Martinez-Hernandez, who entered the United States illegally, is charged with first-degree murder and rape.

This gruesome crime occurred one year after Nobles’ daughter, Kayla Hamilton, was killed in her trailer by a 17-year-old MS-13 gang member, also from El Salvador.

The teenager, who was arrested in January 2023 and faces charges of premeditated murder, allegedly shared the house with the victim because he sublet it from another undocumented migrant.

“I am incredibly sad that something like this has happened again. I understand what Rachel’s mother and her family are going through and the nightmare they have to endure every day,” Nobles said of Morin’s murder.

The devastated mother sued the federal government for $100 million earlier this year, accusing authorities of failing to properly vet her daughter’s murder suspect before he entered the country.

Meanwhile, Morin’s suspected killer was already wanted for an earlier murder in El Salvador and later for the attack on a mother and little girl in Los Angeles, authorities said.

“My message to Biden would be: Close the border, start screening all illegal immigrants and start processing those who entered legally,” Nobles said.

“We cannot continue to let everyone into the country without thoroughly screening them.”

She said her commitment to her murdered daughter and other victims was to “prevent tragedies like those of Kayla and Rachel.”