Trump win moves slain cheerleader's mom to tears as illegal immigrant faces murder charge

EXCLUSIVE — The parent of a 16-year-old Texas miss who was brutally murdered, allegedly by an illegal migrant from Mexico, successful her ain location past December says Trump's triumph past week made her teardrop up.

"When I heard the quality successful the greeting that helium won, I teared up," Jacqueline Medina told Fox News Digital. "I teared up due to the fact that I thought astir my daughter. The Biden-Harris medication failed america terribly."

Medina's "beautiful, loving, bubbly, funny" 16-year-old daughter, Lizbeth Medina, was murdered connected Dec. 5, 2023. Rafael Govea Romero, the 24-year-old antheral charged with superior execution successful transportation with the attack, is scheduled to look proceedings adjacent month.

"With [Trump] winning, I'm truly hoping that determination are stricter laws truthful we tin support our kids, our children, our families, our loved ones from this happening to them again," Medina said.

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Jacqueline Medina came location to find her daughter, Lizbeth Medina, 16, dormant successful the bathtub of their location connected Dec. 5, 2023. (Instagram)

Medina said she knows stricter policies won't bring backmost her daughter, but she is hoping they volition "prevent this from happening to different child."

 "We don't privation different Lizbeth. We don't privation different Laken Riley."

Medina had near their flat for enactment aboriginal connected Dec. 5, 2023. Her girl typically near for schoolhouse soon afterward, but that time she did not marque it to schoolhouse oregon the Christmas parade that her cheer squad was expected to beryllium practicing for.

A Jackson County expansive assemblage indicted Rafael Govea Romero connected a superior execution complaint successful transportation to Lizbeth Medina's stabbing death. (FOX 26 Houston)

When Medina showed up to the Christmas parade and did not spot her daughter, she knew thing was incorrect and frantically contacted friends and household for assistance uncovering the 16-year-old girl.

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Medina returned location that evening aft nary 1 had heard from oregon seen Lizbeth and recovered her dormant with an evident stab coiled successful the bathtub of their Edna apartment.

Edna constabulary arrested Romero successful Schulenburg, Texas, 5 days aft Lizbeth's death, according to authorities.

Jacqueline Medina hopes Trump's predetermination triumph volition assistance forestall different families from going done what her household endured erstwhile Lizbeth was killed. (Facebook)

Romero had a transgression past successful Texas and was connected probation astatine the clip of his apprehension successful transportation to Lizbeth's murder, Edna Police Chief Rick Boone antecedently told Fox News Digital.

The execution fishy was reportedly connected probation for a 2022 burglary successful Schulenburg, astir 60 miles from Edna, the Fayette County Record archetypal reported. Edna constabulary said Romero whitethorn besides beryllium tied to a burglary that occurred astatine Lizbeth's location astir a period earlier her killing.

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The Edna Police Department announced the apprehension of Rafael Govea Romero, an "undocumented male" who officials judge is "the idiosyncratic liable for the decease of Lizbeth Medina." (Edna Police Department)

Neither Medina nor Lizbeth knew Romero, but Medina noted that their location had been burglarized connected Nov. 13, astir a period earlier the teenager's murder. Edna constabulary officers judge Romero whitethorn person been progressive successful the burglary and whitethorn person stalked Lizbeth earlier allegedly attacking and sidesplitting her.

"I'm inactive lost. I inactive consciousness similar I don't cognize what to bash with my life."

"My full beingness was my daughter," Medina said. "And I'm inactive uncovering it precise hard to find myself, to find what absorption I request to instrumentality successful life. The lone happening close present that is keeping maine beardown is the information that we inactive request to get justness for her. Also, we're trying to support engaged to stitchery funds … for her assistance money that we brought up for the cheerleaders successful Edna. And we donate to circumstantial kid advocacy funds successful her name."

The Edna Police Department is investigating Liz Medina's decease arsenic superior murder. (Facebook)

Medina said she wants her girl to beryllium remembered for the benignant and accomplished young pistillate she was alternatively than for her tragic death.

"But astatine the aforesaid time, I bash privation everybody to perceive her communicative truthful they tin recognize wherefore things request to change," Medina said. "That's the lone mode radical volition cognize wherefore we privation things changed."

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Romero's proceedings is scheduled to statesman connected Dec. 3 successful Jackson County, Texas.

A proceedings for Jose Ibarra, the amerciable migrant fishy successful the February execution of Georgia assemblage pupil Laken Riley, begins this week. Medina said she volition ticker Ibarra's proceedings and support Riley's household successful her thoughts.