United States President Donald Trump highlighted the families that were separated because of illegal immigrants as part of his reasoning in urging Congress to pass the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
The Republican leader stood alongside relatives of people who were killed by illegal immigrants as he attended an event at the White House. He said that the bill would make sure that there would be no more families who would become victims of these illegal immigrants and open border policies.
Donald Trump Talks Border Policies
Trump described what the victim families had to go through because of the previous administration's open border policies as "sick." He said that just thinking about it is enough to make a person emotional.
The president noted that the GOP spending package, which still needs to be approved by Senate Republicans, would have provisions he described as "the single most important piece of border legislation ever to cross the floor of Congress," according to Fox News.
At one point during the event, President Trump also turned to Joe Abraham, a father who lost his daughter Katie when an illegal immigrant rear-ended her stopped car at a traffic light. It was later found that the driver of the vehicle that caused the crash was traveling at around 60 to 70 mph.
Before the late 20-year-old's father walked over to the president, Trump said they plan to end this "invasion" once and for all. The two then shook hands, and the Republican held a picture of Katie for the audience to see.
Shoring Up Support for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
The Republican then talked about a mother from Texas, Sarah Stuart, who lost her brother to the ongoing fentanyl epidemic that was created by the United States' porous border policies. Trump said the bill gives billions of dollars in support of ending this issue and other illicit narcotics, Yahoo News reported.
Shortly before the event at the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new visa restrictions that would be implemented for the families of fentanyl traffickers. Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, said he gets frustrated when he is forced to meet with angel moms and dads.
When Trump tapped Homan to talk on the stage, he gave an impassioned plea to Congress to pass the bill. He said that doing so would allow the current administration to hire 10,000 more deportation officers and 5,000 more Border Patrol agents while expanding operations to deport over 1 million people every year, as per Time.
