Kelly Ayotte has a point.

Hardly had the new governor of New Hampshire unloaded on Massachusetts over its immigration policy, than another illegal immigrant was charged with rape in the Bay State.

The arraignment Wednesday of Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas, 38, of Guatemala on child rape charges, came on the heels of the arrest of Dominican national Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, 28, by Revere police on charges of possessing an AR-15 assault rifle and $1 million worth of fentanyl.

Like Hernandez-Rodas, Sanchez is also an illegal immigrant. He was arrested in Lowell in September by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operation.

Hernandez-Rodas is charged with four counts of aggravated rape of a child, three counts of assault on and battery on a child under 14, and one count of enticing a child under 16, according to the office of Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden, which is prosecuting the case. The girl was five years old when the rape started, according to the district attorney.

The latest news follows disturbing “Serious Incident Reports” of rape, drugs, guns, domestic violence, brawls and drunkenness among some migrants at the various state-sponsored shelters for immigrants and homeless families.

Ayotte, a Republican who was sworn in last week as governor of the Granite State — and who is no fan of progressive Democrat Gov. Maura Healey — used her inaugural address to take a few shots at her sister governor over illegal immigration.

“We’ve got a Massachusetts illegal immigrant crisis right down the road, and if you want to see what these dangerous policies do not to just communities but to a budget, they’ve spent a billion dollars housing migrants rather than investing in their law-abiding residents. We can’t allow that to happen here,” she said.

Taking a clear shot at Healey, who campaigned for her opponent in the 2024 election —  former Manchester Democratic Mayor Joyce Craig — Ayotte said that out-of-control spending, tax hikes and illegal immigration were “normal” today in Massachusetts.

What Ayotte left out was how Democrat-controlled Massachusetts became — and still is — a magnet for illegal immigrants given its generous benefits and its lax vetting practices that allow criminal illegal immigrants easy entry.

Indicative of how Massachusetts Democrats protect illegal immigrants — often at the expense of citizens — is the vote last week in Congress over the Laken Riley Act.

This is the bill, passed by the House on a 264-159 vote and given initial approval by the Senate Monday on a 84-10 vote,  that would require ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to detain and a deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes of burglary, theft, larceny and shoplifting.

It is called the Laken Riley act in honor of the 22-year-old nursing student who was raped and killed by Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, while she was out jogging.

While Ibarra was convicted and sentenced to life, the murder might not had happened if the Laken Act had been the law because Ibarra had previously been arrested for shoplifting and would have been deported.

Nevertheless, while bemoaning Laken Riley’s death, eight of the nine Massachusetts members of the U.S. House, all Democrats, voted against the bill, as did fellow Democratic progressives Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Eddie Markey when the bill got to the Senate.

Only Rep. Stephen Lynch of South Boston, a moderate, voted for it.

The eight progressives voting against the bill were Reps. Katherine Clark of Revere, Richard Neal of Springfield, James McGovern of Worcester, Lori Trahan of Westford, Jake Auchincloss of Newton, Seth Moulton of Salem, Ayanna Pressley of Boston, and William Keating of Bourne.

In New Hampshire, the state’s two members of the U.S. House, Reps.  Maggie Goodlander and Chris Pappas, both Democrats, voted for it, as did the state’s two Democratic senators, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Sen. Maggie Hassan.

The opponents argued that the criminal illegal immigrants would be denied due process.

Laken Riley would disagree.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com