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President Donald Trump was joined by relatives of those killed astatine the hands of amerciable immigrants during an lawsuit astatine the White House urging Congress to walk the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The president said the authorities volition guarantee "no much families are victimized" by amerciable immigrants and unfastened borderline policies.
During the lawsuit Thursday successful the East Room, Trump described what families person had to spell done arsenic a effect of the erstwhile administration's unfastened borderline policies arsenic "sick," adding conscionable reasoning astir it makes radical privation to cry.
He pointed retired that the GOP spending package, which inactive indispensable beryllium approved by Republicans successful the Senate, would see provisions Trump described arsenic "the azygous astir important portion of borderline authorities ever to transverse the level of Congress."
At 1 point, Trump turned to Joe Abraham, an angel dada who mislaid his girl Katie aft an amerciable immigrant rear-ended her stopped car astatine a postulation airy portion traveling 60 to 70 mph.
President Donald Trump urges Congress to walk the One Bill Beautiful Bill Act alongside the relatives of radical slain astatine the hands of amerciable immigrants. (Fox News)
"We volition extremity this penetration erstwhile and for all. And we're ever going to retrieve the representation of Katie, that beautiful, beauteous 20-year-old girl of yours," Trump said, earlier her begetter walked implicit to the president, shook his manus and provided Trump a representation of his girl that the president held up for the audience.
Trump past highlighted a parent from Texas, Sarah Stuart, who the president said mislaid her member to the ongoing fentanyl epidemic created by the United States' porous borderline policies.
"Our measure provides billions and billions of dollars to halt fentanyl and different illicit narcotics," Trump said. "We're besides charging different countries similar Mexico, Canada and China billions of dollars successful taxes that we enactment connected due to the fact that they've allowed radical that are selling fentanyl to spell done their countries. Or, successful the lawsuit of China, they nonstop it here."
On Thursday, soon earlier Trump's "big, beauteous event" astatine the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new visa restrictions for the families of fentanyl traffickers.
Angel ma Angie Morfin Vargas holds a representation of her lad Reuben. (White House)
"I get irritated. I get pissed disconnected due to the fact that I'm sick of gathering angel moms and dads," Trump's borderline czar, Tom Homan, said astatine the event. "You privation to speech astir household separation? They hide their children."
Last month, a missive from much than 60 angel moms, dads and relatives was sent to members of Congress, urging them to walk Trump's "big, beauteous bill."
In summation to hiring much borderline patrol agents and providing much backing for the borderline wall, the authorities would let the summation of other detention centers for detained migrants, accrued scrutiny of unaccompanied minors' imaginable pack ties and velocity up deportations to astatine slightest 1 cardinal per year.
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A brace of migrant families from Brazil walk done a spread successful the borderline partition to scope the United States aft crossing from Mexico successful Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)
"Every azygous 1 of america is surviving with a imperishable spread successful our lives due to the fact that an amerciable immigrant, who ne'er should person been successful this country, was allowed to enactment and instrumentality an guiltless life," the missive states. "These were preventable tragedies. And yet, twelvemonth aft year, Washington offers excuses alternatively of solutions. That indispensable extremity now."
Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
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