Ted Cruz demands that Jen Psaki apologize to the family of the 2-year-old boy killed “by an illegal immigrant” just “30 miles from his $1.7 million home” after she and Rachel Maddow laughed at that immigration was a priority issue for voters in the state.

Sen. Ted Cruz demanded that MSNBC host Jen Psaki apologize to the family of a 2-year-old boy allegedly killed by an illegal migrant after she mocked voters for their concerns about immigration.

After Super Tuesday exit polls in Virginia indicated that voters’ top concern in this election is immigration, Psaki, a Virginia resident, was incredulous.

Former press secretary and fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joked that the real threat facing Virginia voters comes from West Virginia and not illegal immigrants.

“Jen Psaki and Rachel Maddow owe Jeremy Poou-Caceres’ family an apology,” the Texas Republican wrote in X.

“He was a 2-year-old boy who had just been murdered by an illegal alien less than a 30-minute drive from Psaki’s $1.7 million home in Arlington, Virginia.”

Cruz was referring to the high-profile murder of two-year-old Jeremy Poou-Caceres, who police say was shot to death by an illegal migrant in the United States while walking with his mother in the D.C. suburbs.

Jeremy and his mother were shot on February 8 in a Maryland neighborhood outside D.C., near Psaki’s home in Virginia, killing the boy and wounding the mother, according to authorities.

Authorities later announced that the suspects involved in the case are in the country illegally and that Jeremy and his mother were not the intended targets.

One of the suspects, Nilson Trejo-Granados, a 25-year-old Salvadoran, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in the case.

He had previously been arrested several times in the United States, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records.

In March of last year, the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) charged him with robbery. That arrest led ICE to file an immigration detainer against the criminal.

The local police department, however, refused to honor the arrest warrant and subsequently released Trejo-Granados back to the public.

He was arrested again by MCPD in September 2023. He was charged with robbery and attempted obstruction and obstruction.

ICE again unsuccessfully filed an immigration detainer that was not honored.

Even before all that, a Justice Department immigration judge in Newark, New Jersey, ordered the man’s removal from the United States in November 2022.

‘I live in Virginia. “Immigration was the number one issue,” Psaki said Tuesday, apparently surprised.

Maddow responded, “Well, Virginia has a border with West Virginia.”

Another MSNBC anchor chimed in: ‘Build the wall!’

The boy was walking in the park with his mother when he was shot and killed in February.

Nilson Trejo-Granados, 25, a Salvadoran illegal migrant, was charged this week by the Prince George’s County Police Department with first- and second-degree murder.

Despite pundits’ jokes about immigration, voters don’t think it’s a laughing matter.

Exit polls in North Carolina, Virginia and California found that immigration is among voters’ top priorities.

Additionally, exit polls found Trump’s immigration policies are widely acceptable in Virginia, with 64 percent of voters trusting the former president more on border security.

Americans now say immigration is the top issue facing the nation: 28 percent of voters consider it the top concern, ahead of the state of the government and the economy.

Additionally, a recent poll released this week found that a majority of American voters now want a barricade along the US-Mexico border, the first time in history that a majority of voters want a physical barrier.