Five children waited for their mother to come home from her morning run. Say that slowly. Five children. One trail. One morning. August 2023. Bel Air, Maryland. A 37-year-old mother of five ran the same hiking trail all the time. People there knew her. It was her place. She was dragged off that trail and killed. Her body was hidden in a drainage culvert, like something to be disposed of. The man who did it had fled El Salvador while wanted for killing a woman there. Now hear this part clearly, because it is the entire story. In the first months of 2023, our border caught him three times. Three times, he was turned back. So he tried a fourth time. That time, nobody caught him. He crossed the whole country. He was linked to a violent home invasion in Los Angeles. And then he found a quiet hiking trail in Maryland. That trail is 1,800 miles from the border. The border failed her anyway. He got life without parole. Her five children got a lifetime without their mother. The arithmetic of this country is broken when a killer’s fourth try counts for more than a mother’s five kids. She should be at five more graduations. Five weddings. A houseful of grandchildren. She should be alive. God bless every American who counts to five and gets angry.