Trump hosts families of illegal alien crime victims

Washington Times:

President Trump highlighted “American victims of illegal immigration” Friday, hosting families of people killed by illegal immigrants to tell their stories and hitting back at critics of his rescinded policy that separated illegal child migrants from their parents.

“These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “These are the families the media ignores. These are the stories that Democrats and people that are weak on immigration don’t want to discuss.”

He was surrounded on a stage by so-called “Angel” families who lost loved ones to violence by illegal immigrants. Many of the parents held large photographs of their dead children.

Referring to the furor over separating child migrants from their parents, Mr. Trump emphasized repeatedly that the families gathered with him had lost their loved ones forever.

“They’re not separated for a day, or two days,” the president said. “They’re permanently separated, because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens.”

One of the parents, Steve Ronnebeck, talked about his 21-year-old son Grant, killed when an illegal immigrant shot him for a pack of cigarettes at a convenience store.

“You don’t hear these stories, and some of our media won’t talk to you about it,” Mr. Ronnebeck said. “But this is permanent separation.”

He said he places a Christmas tree on his son’s grave each year.

Laura Wilkerson of Pearland, Texas, recounted the story of her son Josh, who was tortured and killed in 2010.

“None of our kids had a minute to say good-bye,” she said. “We weren’t lucky enough to be separated for five days, or 10 days. We’re separated permanently. We can never have them back on this earth.”

She added, “We can’t speak to them, we can’t Skype with them,” referring to outrage that current child migrants who’ve been separated from their parents can speak with them on the phone only twice a week.
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These families are fighting the sanctuary state movement in places like California.  Sadly they have not only lost family members but the mainstream media does not care about their lost loves one.  It will be interesting to see if they put this story at the top of their front page>  I suspect they will not.

Here is how the NY Times handled the story:

Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime to Defend Policy

Mr. Trump has embraced the stories of Americans killed by undocumented immigrants, though studies show immigration has little effect on crime.

Here is where the Times is wrong.   If these people were not illegal in this country, to begin with, these victims never would have been killed.  That is an element the media and the Democrats seek to avoid even though it should be obvious.