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President Donald Trump was joined by relatives of those killed at the hands of illegal immigrants during an event at the White House urging Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The president said the legislation will ensure “no more families are victimized” by illegal immigrants and open border policies.
During the event Thursday in the East Room, Trump described what families have had to go through as a result of the previous administration’s open border policies as “sick,” adding just thinking about it makes people want to cry.
He pointed out that the GOP spending package, which still must be approved by Republicans in the Senate, would include provisions Trump described as “the single most important piece of border legislation ever to cross the floor of Congress.”
At one point, Trump turned to Joe Abraham, an angel dad who lost his daughter Katie after an illegal immigrant rear-ended her stopped car at a traffic light while traveling 60 to 70 mph.
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President Donald Trump urges Congress to pass the One Bill Beautiful Bill Act alongside the relatives of people slain at the hands of illegal immigrants. (Fox News)
“We will end this invasion once and for all. And we’re always going to remember the memory of Katie, that beautiful, beautiful 20-year-old daughter of yours,” Trump said, before her father walked over to the president, shook his hand and provided Trump a picture of his daughter that the president held up for the audience.
Trump then highlighted a mother from Texas, Sarah Stuart, who the president said lost her brother to the ongoing fentanyl epidemic created by the United States’ porous border policies.
“Our bill provides billions and billions of dollars to stop fentanyl and other illicit narcotics,” Trump said. “We’re also charging other countries like Mexico, Canada and China billions…
