Mother of murdered 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray received call from Trump minutes before the presidential debate

The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old girl who was tragically murdered by two illegal immigrants in Texas, received a “shock” phone call from former President Donald Trump just before he went on stage to debate President Joe Biden.

Victoria Galvan, the best friend of Jocelyn’s mother Alexis Nungaray, with whom Alexis has been staying, said that Trump expressed his condolences and shared that there was no one he preferred to speak to more prior to the debate than her.

“He was like, ‘I’m actually about to come on for a debate’... He gave his condolences, and he said that he would be reaching back out to her,” Galvan explained to the New York Post.

“He wanted to… say that he was praying for Alexis and that he’s been thinking about her and he wanted to reach out. He said that he was going to reach out in a couple days to her… I mean, she was really… we were all shocked,” Galvan added. Galvan mentioned that following the call, she and Alexis discussed how Jocelyn would have been shocked by the former president’s attention to her story.

Jocelyn was killed by two illegal immigrants from Venezuela who entered the country through El Paso. Both were initially captured by border patrol agents and then released the same day. Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, have since been arrested on capital murder charges. The pair allegedly “lured” Jocelyn under a bridge, tied her up, removed her pants, and strangled her to death.

The incident has been highlighted as part of the ongoing violence involving illegal immigrants who have entered the country under President Biden’s administration. Trump mentioned on the debate stage speaking to Jocelyn’s mother as he criticized Biden for his overwhelmingly weak stance on the border crisis.

“They’re killing our citizens at a level that we’ve never seen before. And you’re reading it like these three incredible young girls over the last few days. One of them, I just spoke to the mother, and we just had the funeral for this girl, 12 years old,” Trump said while on stage. “This is horrible what’s taken place. What’s taken place in our country, we’re literally an uncivilized country now.”