Gov. Abbott slams Biden’s border battle with story of Houston murder victim Jocelyn Nungaray during RNC speech

HOUSTON – In his first major primetime television moment, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took the stage Wednesday night at the RNC convention, criticizing President Biden’s border policies and taking credit for using the Texas National Guard to stop more people from entering the state from Mexico.

“When Biden seized 50 acres of Texas border land to illegally process up to 5,000 illegal immigrants a day, I ordered the Texas National Guard to take back our land and fence it off with wire,” Abbott said.

He also accused the president of “welcoming rapists, murderers, and even terrorists into our country.” Governor Abbott spoke of Houston murder victim Jocelyn Nungaray, who was strangled to death, her body bound and dumped in a creek.

““Raped and murdered by two illegal immigrants, she is one of thousands whose lives have been destroyed by Joe Biden’s open borders policy. To top it all off, Biden is fighting tooth and nail to prevent Texas and other Republican states from securing their own borders,” Abbott said.

Two Venezuelans are charged with Nungaray’s murder. They both worked for a local construction company and had been drinking at a local bar for hours, prosecutors said, before meeting Nungaray at a convenience store shortly after midnight on June 17.

A woman spotted Jocelyn’s body in a creek off West Rankin Road around 6:15 a.m.

Abbott’s speech ended with a call to bring former President Donald Trump back to the White House.

“It is time to secure our nation by re-electing Donald Trump as President of the United States of America.”