Mother of executed 13-year-old shares request to new Homeland Security head
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SPECIAL: California mother and grandmother Angie Morfin, whose 13-year-old son Ruben was executed at point-blank range by an illegal alien gang member, shared a message for incoming Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin: “Rest assured that no other mother will ever have to take the call I did.”
“Reuben was a little boy who dreamed of growing up, getting married and having his own family,” the woman told Fox News Digital. “For 34 years, I fought to keep his memory alive, so he wouldn’t die in vain.”
She shared that she is hopeful that Mullin, the current Republican senator from Oklahoma who will take over as head of DHS at the end of the month, “will continue to listen to Angel Families and stand with us as we fight to ensure that no other mother receives the call I did.”
In an interview recently shared with Fox News Digital on The American Border Story, Morfin said his family remains devastated even decades after losing Ruben.
“I’m crying for him today like it was just yesterday,” she shared.
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Angie Morfin (left) said she continues to mourn the loss of her 13-year-old son Ruben (right) every day after he was executed by an illegal alien gang member. (Courtesy of American Frontier Story)
In the winter of 1994, Ruben, a young Hispanic teenager with no gang affiliation, was chased and shot in the back of the head by Mexican national Ezequiel Mariscal near Orange County, California. Ruben was going to a party with a group of friends.
Morfin said that although his family was living in Oceanside, just north of San Diego at the time, he sent Ruben to stay with his grandparents during the holidays because of concerns about gangs in their area.
Then one night, just after midnight, Morfin said he got a phone call.
“I picked up the phone and I could hear my mom screaming, ‘They shot Nino, they shot Nino.’ I knew that was my baby because we named him that because he was so little,” she said.
Morfin said she and her husband rushed to the hospital.
“It was probably the longest journey of my life. I was scared. “I didn’t know what I would see when I got there,” he explained.
When he got there he was kept waiting.
“They told me he was dying. “If he survives the night, he will be a vegetable for the rest of his life because they just blew out half his brain,” he said.
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“Finally my husband managed to get in and came out crying and told me not to go in. To remember him as he was, I said, ‘No, that was my baby you were talking about. I have to see for myself.’.”
In the room where Ruben was kept on life support, Morfin said his son was bandaged and greatly disfigured.
“I could see my baby on that table. His body was shaking from all the machinery he had. “He had a bandage on his head and his eye was sticking out,” he recalled. “I asked if I could give her one last kiss before I cut it off [life support]. I approached my baby and gave him his last kiss. “There were two tears in his good eye.”
““The only thing I was trying to do in my mind was to stop the bullet,” he added.
According to Morfin, the attacker had previously been deported. He was a young man at the time of the shooting and a member of the Posole street gang. He fled to Mexico after the shooting and was later sentenced to 45 years in a Mexican state prison.
After losing Ruben, Morfin said: “Everything about me has changed, everything.”
Morfin founded Mothers Against Gang Violence, a California-based advocacy group to push for stricter law enforcement. He also testified before Congress on the need for stricter immigration enforcement. She explained that her advocacy on behalf of victims like Ruben was “my way of keeping him alive”“
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A Morfin family photo showing the family along with photos of Ruben in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump. (American Frontier Story)
He praised President Donald Trump’s tough policy against illegal immigration, saying, “It takes courage to do what he did.”
“It helped me give my son a voice,” she said.
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“There are a lot of new victims,” he continued, criticizing current Democrats, “and they have one agenda: bringing in more Democrats.”
Nicole Kiprilov, executive director of The American Border Story, told Fox News Digital that the Morphines’ story is “a heartbreaking reminder that behind every statistic there is a child whose life was stolen and a family who must live with that loss forever.”
“Angel Families like Angie’s have been fighting for decades to ensure their loved ones are not forgotten,” Kiprilov said. “We hope Secretary Mullin will continue to listen to these families and put the safety of American communities first.”
