Category: politics (Page 14 of 15)

Mary Ann Mendoza, Laura Wilkerson, and Agnes Gibboney spoke with FNC’s Martha McCallum about their meeting on Friday with President Trump at the White House with other Angel Moms and Dads and family members.

“Both appearances centered around the meaning of ‘real separation’ versus the manufactured media ‘crisis’ going on at the U.S.-Mexico border,” The Daily Caller explained in the context of the temporary separation of some minors and their illegal alien parents or others with whom they entered the U.S. on an undocumented basis.

Agnes Gibboney, a legal immigrant, had this to say.

“When my son was murdered I didn’t know for 11 years that the man that killed my son was an illegal alien [and] had an ICE hold. The media doesn’t report truthfully what the separation of families really is, but I would like to show everybody what real separation of families is. This is what separates my son and myself is a coffin and six feet of dirt. How is that for real separation of families?”

Said Mary Ann Mendoza:

“When you have a problem like what is happening at the border you can’t start at the end result and start placing blame. You have to go back to the origin of the problem. And that’s what the parents, the mothers letting their children go with these smugglers and the cartel bringing these children to our borders. That is where the anger needs to be directed. It should not be directed at the United States for upholding its laws, and quite frankly I’m happy that the United States was able to step in and save some of the children from the fate they were dealt, and who knows what was going to happen to them?”

We are gathered today to hear directly from the AMERICAN VICTIMS of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. These are the American Citizens permanently separated from their loved ones b/c they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. These are the families the media ignores…https://t.co/ZjXESYAcjY read more