Far-left Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) claimed on Wednesday that she’s never heard of Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old girl whose murder — allegedly at the hands of two illegal Venezuelan migrants — has ignited fresh calls for tougher border policies.
“I don’t know who she is. I live in Pittsburgh,” the Pennsylvania Democrat told Fox Business reporter Hillary Vaughn, when asked about the Nungaray’s torture and killing in Houston last week.
“I live in Pittsburgh. I don’t know anything about it,” Lee reiterated, when pressed by the reporter, before ducking into her Capitol Hill office.
When Lee emerged, the reporter asked the 36-year-old congresswoman if it was time to end the Biden administration’s policy of paroling migrants apprehended crossing the border illegally – a policy which has allowed federal authorities to mass release migrants into the US as they await immigration court proceedings.
“I have to look it up,” Lee responded, offering to speak to the reporter later.
Several other Democratic lawmakers – none from Texas – characterized Nungaray’s killing as horrific but similarly did not pin the blame on the 81-year-old president, when asked by the reporter.
Lee’s responses drew the ire of fellow Pennsylvanian Dave McCormick, the Republican candidate for Senate in the Keystone State.
“This is disgusting,” the McCormick campaign wrote on X, sharing a clip of Lee’s comments.
“Her name is Jocelyn Nungaray,” McCormick wrote in his own post. “Bob Casey should be absolutely ashamed for continuing to support Summer Lee.”
McCormick is challenging longtime Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) for his seat in November.
Lee, who is battling Republican James Hayes in Pennsylvania’s 12th District election, has been endorsed by Casey.
Her office did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Authorities say Nungaray was assaulted for two hours before she was strangled to death under a Houston bridge on June 16 by suspects Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21.
Ramos crossed the southern border illegally in May, sources told The Post.
Meanwhile, Martinez entered the country in March and was given an ankle monitor, but it was removed in May after it was determined he had no known criminal history.
Both men have been charged with capital murder.
Nungaray’s family has slammed the Biden administration’s immigration policies and demanded a “safer country.”
“We have to stop burying our kids, this is not right,” Nungaray’s mom Alexis told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday night.
“We have to have more enforcement when it comes to letting people in, this is not OK, it’s not OK.”
Lawmakers have also highlighted the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border in the wake of Nungaray’s killing.
“Joe Biden’s open border policies continue to devastate American communities,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said in a statement.
“This needless human tragedy is the most recent loss from this humanitarian crisis devastating American communities and families,” Stefanik said of Nungaray’s death.
