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Dem ripped for ‘disgusting’ absence on bill to punish violent criminals after girl strangled in grisly killing
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FIRST ON FOX: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is being ripped by critics accusing him of making a «disgusting» decision to be absent during a vote on a Texas bill to automatically deny bail to illegal immigrants charged with violent felonies after a local preteen was strangled to death.
As a member of the Texas House of Representatives in 2025, Talarico was absent during the final voting on a bill dubbed by state lawmakers «Jocelyn’s Law,» in honor of slain Houston preteen Jocelyn Nungaray. The measure, which would have added a Texas constitutional amendment to deny bail to illegal immigrants charged with violent felonies, ended up failing due to lack of bipartisan support.
Before being absent for the final vote, Talarico voted against killing two amendments to the bill that would have exempted immigrants present in the country on humanitarian parole, an order of supervision, a pending green card application, trafficking or Violence Against Women Act victim protections, visa extension applications, deferred action or Temporary Protected Status.
He is now taking flak over his absence as he runs for U.S. Senate in one of the states most impacted by illegal immigrant crime. Nungaray, 12, was sexually assaulted and killed, allegedly by two Venezuelan illegal immigrants, in a Houston neighborhood in June 2024.
Zach Kraft, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, slammed Talarico for what he said amounts to helping to kill the bill, saying, «It is disgusting that James Talarico is letting his anti-American agenda show by siding with a violent illegal over a Texas family.»
DA TO SEEK DEATH PENALTY AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ACCUSED IN NUNGARAY MURDER CASE
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico (left) is taking heat for voting against «Jocelyn’s Law,» a bill named in honor of slain Houston preteen Jocelyn Nungaray (right) to amend the Texas constitution to deny bail to illegal immigrants charged with violent felonies. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images; The American Border Story)
Kraft told Fox News Digital that Talarico’s alleged opposition to the bill has «once again … proven his priority is criminals, not the safety of Texans.»
JT Ennis, a spokesperson for Talarico’s campaign, pushed back on this, telling Fox News Digital that «James is a law and order Democrat who supports prosecuting violent felons, and has a proven track record voting for tighter bail laws for violent offenders and voting repeatedly to increase funding for Texas police.»
Ennis added that «while [incumbent Sen.] John Cornyn, [challenger Texas Attorney General] Ken Paxton, and the billionaires who prop them up lie about James’ record, he will continue standing up against both political parties to fix this broken, corrupt political system.»
Texas bore much of the brunt of the border crisis during the Biden administration.
Prosecutors say Nungaray was abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled. Her body was later found in a creek drainage area. Two men, Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, both Venezuelan nationals illegally present in the U.S., have been charged with capital murder in the case.
JAMES TALARICO IS NEWEST TEXAS DEMOCRAT MEDIA DARLING, BUT DREAMS OF STATE ‘GOING BLUE’ HAVE LONG BEEN DASHED
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico speaks at a campaign rally in Houston on March 2, 2026. (Danielle Villasana/Getty Images)
Before Nungaray’s killing, the men were encountered by U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in early 2024. However, they were released on their own recognizance under the Biden administration into the U.S. The murder happened just months after their illegal entry.
According to data gathered by the House Homeland Security Committee toward the end of the Biden administration, there were more than 10.8 million border encounters and roughly two million known gotaways under former President Joe Biden.
Against this backdrop, Talarico has been criticized as soft on crime and pro-defund the police, the latter of which he has denied as a «flat-out lie.»
During his time in the Texas House, he has also voted against the Damon Allen Act, a bill that restricted bail for certain offenders named in honor of Texas state trooper Damon Allen, who was killed by a career criminal out on bail. In 2021, he also voted against a proposed constitutional amendment that would deny bail for anyone accused of violent sexual offenses or trafficking.
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Franklin Jose Peña Ramos and Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel have been charged in the killing of Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas, on Monday, June 17. (Harris County Jail)
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On the immigration issue, Talarico has taken heat for saying in 2019 that «undocumented Americans» are «also my constituents.»
In a graphic put out by United We Dream, an activist group that supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Talarico encouraged people not to open their doors to federal immigration agents. He instructed people not to sign any documentation without an attorney and to «fight back.»
Fox News Digital’s Leo Briceno and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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Honduras cuestiona audiencia de la CIDH sobre denuncias relacionadas con el juicio político
La representante del Estado de Honduras, Marlen Talbott reiteró durante la audiencia que el país mantiene su compromiso con la promoción y protección de los derechos humanos y aseguró que continuará cooperando con la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) dentro de las competencias establecidas por el Sistema Interamericano.
Sin embargo, explicó que, tras analizar la solicitud presentada, el Estado concluyó que esta excede la finalidad prevista en los artículos 66 al 70 del Reglamento de la CIDH. Informó que Honduras presentó formalmente su inconformidad ante la Comisión y que los argumentos oficiales serán remitidos a la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores para su respuesta por los canales diplomáticos correspondientes.
Talbott sostuvo que las modalidades de audiencia contempladas en el artículo 62 del Reglamento de la CIDH tienen objetivos específicos, entre ellos el seguimiento de recomendaciones y la recepción de información general sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en un Estado. Desde esa perspectiva, señaló que este mecanismo no debería utilizarse para debatir controversias individuales o procesos judiciales concretos.
La representación del Estado argumentó además que utilizar una audiencia pública para analizar sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, emitir valoraciones sobre actuaciones estatales o referirse a procesos de supervisión en curso no corresponde a la naturaleza de este mecanismo. Según la postura oficial, ello resulta incompatible con el artículo 66 del reglamento de la Comisión y podría interferir con los procedimientos institucionales del Sistema Interamericano.
Honduras expresó que el uso de una audiencia de monitoreo para abordar controversias individuales, contraviene el principio de subsidiariedad, que establece que los mecanismos internacionales actúan de forma complementaria a las instituciones nacionales. El Gobierno también sostuvo que la CIDH debió examinar previamente la compatibilidad de la solicitud con su reglamento antes de admitir la audiencia.
En esa línea, el procurador general de la República, Dagoberto Aspra, declaró a Infobae que Honduras mantiene una posición de respeto hacia la CIDH, aunque manifestó que el Estado no comparte el enfoque adoptado para la convocatoria y considera que la actuación del organismo debe ajustarse a las disposiciones de su reglamento y a la jurisprudencia del Sistema Interamericano.
En contraste, el abogado y analista en derechos humanos Joaquín Mejía cuestionó la postura del Gobierno y defendió las atribuciones de la Comisión Interamericana. A su juicio, el Estado hondureño debería actuar con mayor cuidado al designar a sus representantes en este tipo de audiencias internacionales.
Mejía calificó como “un ridículo” la estrategia del Estado de intentar, según su criterio, deslegitimar la audiencia y poner en duda las facultades de la CIDH. El analista sostuvo que la Comisión tiene la potestad de convocar este tipo de espacios para conocer información sobre posibles afectaciones a los derechos humanos y afirmó que el debate debería centrarse en responder al contenido de las denuncias presentadas y no en cuestionar la competencia del organismo.
El procurador Aspra, reiteró a Infobae , que “Honduras no contempla desligarse de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y reiteró que el Estado mantiene una posición de respeto hacia el organismo”. A su vez señala que, la postura presentada responde a una diferencia sobre el enfoque de la audiencia y no a un desconocimiento de las funciones de la CIDH,
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SEE IT: Michigan Dem predicts far-left El-Sayed will win Senate race after backing his primary rival
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Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is confident that far-left Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed will defeat Republican nominee Mike Rogers in the race to replace him in the Senate, despite having endorsed El-Sayed’s primary rival, Rep. Haley Stevens.
El-Sayed, known as a progressive insurgent, will go head-to-head with Michigan’s Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers in the upcoming midterm elections. El-Sayed’s victory marks yet another win for the left-wing Democrats in this year’s primaries that have been battling to defeat the current Democratic establishment.
«I think if you look at the issues broadly, the differences between Abdul El-Sayed and Rogers when it comes to fighting for families in Michigan, it’s pretty broad,» Peters said to Fox News Digital when asked if his far-left positions could give Republicans a boost in Michigan.
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Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, films a social media video at a pool party for content creators supporting his campaign, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
He continued, «And in the end, that’s why he will prevail.»
Peters’ endorsement of Stevens over El-Sayed was part of a broader effort by mainstream Democrats to beat out another progressive candidate, as Republicans largely viewed El-Sayed winning as a boost for their party’s chances to flip Michigan’s Senate seat. Rogers told Fox News Digital in an interview prior to the primary results that he would «beat either one of those candidates,» but that El-Sayed has «his own special sauce of crazy.»
The race between Stevens and El-Sayed was strenuous as it became a determining factor of whether Democrats could win the majority back in the Senate. More than $80 million was poured into this primary, qualifying it as the most expensive Democratic Senate nomination race in history.
DEMS’ LEFTWARD LURCH GETS LEGS AS EL-SAYED’S MICHIGAN SENATE VICTORY SPARKS PARTY DEBATE
Rep. Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed are vying for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images; Finn Gomez/Getty Images)
Republicans have speculated that the turn to nominating Democratic socialist candidates indicates that the current Democratic establishment is losing its grip in these congressional races.
Peters pushed back on this claim, arguing that the results aren’t reflective of the entire party as this is «nothing new» for the state.
«Michigan is a very diverse state, and if you recall, Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton many years ago in a primary in Michigan, so this is nothing new,» Peters said.
Peters argued the result was consistent with Michigan’s political history, pointing to Bernie Sanders’ upset over Hillary Clinton in the state’s 2016 Democratic presidential primary. Sanders endorsed El-Sayed in his Senate primary to defeat Stevens.
HASAN PIKER UNLOADS ON ‘ISLAMOPHOBIC PIECES OF S—‘ DEMOCRATS AS EL-SAYED FACES PARTY UNITY TEST
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, greet the crowd after El-Sayed spoke at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Mich. (Sarah Rice/Getty Images)
El-Sayed, a former Wayne County Health Department Director, would be the first Muslim senator. He has has previously called for defunding the police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is also a strong critic of Israel, labeling the country’s actions as genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Peters declined to weigh in on where he falls on El-Sayed’s policy positions — like defunding the police — despite expressing confidence the Democratic nominee will defeat Rogers.
«I’m not on the ballot, so I don’t have to make those kinds of statements,» Peters said.
El-Sayed and Rogers, who ran uncontested in his primary, will compete for the swing state’s Senate seat on Nov. 3 in midterm elections.
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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