Timing in life is important.

In politics, too.

And Joe Biden’s timing could not have been worse than when he announced amnesty plans last week to legalize 500,000 illegal immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for 10 years.

His announcement came on the day a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador was arrested for the brutal sexual assault in broad daylight of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens, N.Y. Park.

It also came upon the arrest of a second illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was wanted for the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five who was killed on a hiking trail last year.

Her naked and beaten body was found in a culvert in August after the 37-year-old woman had gone missing while out on a trail in Bel Air, a typically safe town 28 miles north of Baltimore.

Wielding a machete-like knife, the man in the Queens case allegedly tied the girl and a boy together by the wrists, gagged them and then raped the girl.

The immigrant, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, was later arrested after he was captured and pummeled by members of his community who recognized him from wanted posters.

Inga-Landi illegally entered the country through Eagle Pass, Texas in 2020.

In the Morin case Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested in a Tulsa, Oklahoma bar following a police tip as well as on DNA evidence.

Martinez entered the country illegally in 2023 after fleeing El Salvador where authorities said he was wanted for murdering a woman.

Maryland Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said that Martinez was initially turned away from the border. “And, yeah, that didn’t deter him because we have such a porous border and he came right through, and this is the result.”

No sooner was Martinez in the country, Gahler said, than police linked him to a March home invasion in Los Angeles where a mother and her nine-year-old daughter were assaulted.

He said it was “insane” that Martinez was able to get into the country unchallenged.

Joe Biden’s handling, or mishandling, of immigration, legal or otherwise, is a gift to Donald Trump that keeps on giving.

Regarding Biden’s new amnesty plan, Trump said, “When I’m re-elected, Joe Biden’s illegal amnesty plan will be ripped up and thrown out on the very first day that we’re back in office.”

Trump, who will debate Biden Thursday night, where immigration is sure to come up, compared the Morin killing to the murder of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Augusta University, Georgia nursing student who was killed out jogging in February 2022.

Jose Antonia Ibarra, 26, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, has been charge with bashing her head in with a rock before strangling her.

News of these cases broke at the same time Joe Biden proposed more accommodations to mostly illegal immigrants, including suspected criminals and terrorists, who continue to cross the border under his open borders policy.

If this was not enough immigrant criminal news to step all over Biden’s amnesty announcement, then ICE announced the arrest of eight suspected terrorists with possible ties to ISIS.

The men, all from Tajikistan, came into the U.S. though the southern border. They were on the radar of the FBIs Joint Terrorism Task Force and were arrested in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

If they hang around long enough, Biden will grant them amnesty too, provided he is still around.

And on Thursday Houston police arrested two more illegal immigrants from Venezuela for the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. Police said Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, lured her away from home, strangled her and dumped her body in a creek.

Here are the two views on open borders and immigration, legal or illegal, of the two presidential candidates.

Biden: “The Statue of Liberty is not some relic of American history. It stands for who we are.”

Trump: “We are the dumping ground for the world.”

Choose one.

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

A Border Patrol agent checks a migrant seeking asylum before the man is transported and processed earlier this month near Dulzura, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)