I was going to end my life. The president from coming down the escalator that day, talking about illegal immigration. I had no clue that i would ever be at the white house. And i thank President Trump, Vice President pence, everybody behind me, i thank you, i thank everybody out here. Make sure you get our stories out. I brought my son. This is what i have left, his ashes. I wear his ashes in a locket, this is how i hug my son. So remember when you go home and hug your kids. That theres many of us, thousands of us that dont get to do that anymore. Lets Work Together and get this done. All politicians. I dont care what side youre open. You dont want your children in a casket or urn. So get it together for gods sake, for this country, for our citizens. Thank you. [applause] my name is ray. I retired from the navy. I flew off of aircraft carriers. I had a great navy career and started my family in the 90s. Two little girls, tessa and kelsey. They had a bigger brother, dylan. I raised them. Their mother and her mom is hispanic. So tessa was hispanic. They live near the border as well. Tessa was 16. She was a dreamer. So was her friend, allie counhard. 17 and 16 year old. Beautiful girls. They went to a wawa in Virginia Beach to get a pack of gum. Alfredo ramos was driving at 70 miles an hour. He was three times the legal limit. He had been arrested before for dui in which the judge give him no time or fines. He had a fake i. D. From florida bought by the cartels. He had a fake drivers license in his car and he couldnt speak glitch. He needed an interpreter for the last dui hearing. He was arrested for drunk in public. Bottom line, he came in through mesa, tried to make it. He was going he was three times the legal limit. So the place told me that at that, its like wearing almost blackout glasses while youre driving. When he hit the girls from behind, it was an explosion. The neighborhood thought a bomb went off. The girls were almost instantaneously dead. They worked on tessa awhile. I saw her in the hospital. Those are the dreamers that the United States is focused on. I cant make an opinion about the young people that are hear illegally because their parents brought them. But i can guarantee you the government had nothing to do with that. Everybody wants to blame. But the parents of those children are to blame. There was a lot of, well, maybe theyll feel sorry for them because theyre kids and maybe if they behave, theyll just magically beat the system. My mom came from ireland. Took her ten years to get her citizenship. She had a sponsor. If she got in trouble, not only did she get in trouble, the sponsor was in trouble. I would have been speaking Northern Irish right now if she got out of line. Thats the way it was with ins in those days. And mom loved being an american. I helped her study for her exam. Im all about legal immigration. But the invaders, people that come over our borders and decide to take the law in their own hands, maybe supported by a group of people that for gods sakes i dont know why they would want to do it, its evil, it hurts people and it costs us billions of dollars a year. And they dont seem to want to pay for it. They want us to pay for it. The other taxpayers. I want to thank President Trump because when my those kids died, i was in i was a city employee. Of course, i sued the city and the judge and the adjoining city with the judge there. Theyre immune. Didnt make my really friendly with the city. Didnt make me friendly with ice. Basically they claimed they werent called, the Sheriffs Department said we called him and it was a back and forth. So nobody took responsibility. Being in that situation where no one takes responsibility in this government at all means that youre standing in a dark forest at night when its raining and its cold and youre lost. Everybody you talk to, yeah, yeah, but you know, he was drunk and we have a lot of drunks here. Let me tell you, the guy shouldnt have been there at that time. He shouldnt have been there. We have many opportunities to get him out. So what is happening . Or representative is the president and the Vice President. They took us in. Were going to fight this battle. Were going to win it. Were going to clean it up, and im very proud of that. Im very proud to be a part of that. I will support you as Law Enforcement and my president and Vice President as much as they need. I want to thank the remembrance project for standing there when i had no one else. God bless you. I hope this doesnt happen to you. Thank you. [applause] this is tom selleck. Extent better looking, right . Better looking. Thank you. Thank you. Im angel. My family immigrated from hungary. We escaped during the revolution. My father was born in yugoslovia. They didnt allow us to come to the american embassy. We went to we had a choice of south africa, austria or brazil. We went to brazil. We lived there 13 years trying to legally immigrate to the United States. When we immigrated to brazil, the government took our citizenship. When we came to the United States, we were stateless. Im honored and proud to say this is my home, my country and i will fight for this country until my death. Thank you Law Enforcement, border patrol, immigration, barbara. Everybody that got me here today. Thank you for fighting this fight. You dont want to walk in our shoes. President trump, thank you for always standing behind us. You are the biggest birthday present i got and im still waiting for that shovel to help build the wall at the border. I live in california. I would like to ask if you dont want your state to become a sanctuary state, so i would like to ask President Trump, if you would tweet and endorse us to fight sanctuarystate. Com to help us so we dont go down. If california continues on this path, the rest of the country will follow. Im so proud and honored of you, mr. President. The integrity and character that you have shown us pulling the daggers out of your back every day. It hasnt been fair. But i want you to know that im very honored to call you my president. God bless you and your family always. God bless this country. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, mr. President. That is my son, drew. He was in law school in San Francisco in 2010 when Roberto Gallo tried to make a lastsecond lefthand turn and hit him. Instead of stopping, he tried to flee. So he accelerated, drove over his body. My son was on a motorcycle. His helmet came off. Wedged under one of his tired. He drove over him a second time. Trying to get away, he went forward. By that time a guy got out and stopped with his rear tire on my sons abdomen and five people had to lift the car off of him. I want to talk about somebody else. You heard agnes mention fight sanctuarystate. Com. In april of year, i filed with the state of california an initiative to overturn the sanctuary state. Theres way to many deaths, way too many traffic collisions. I should just add on an aside, we gave out drivers licenses in 2015. In two years, the first two years of that traffic fatalities on what was supposed to be safer roads have gone up 19 , hit and runs have gone up 26 . Yet theyre still telling people the roads are safer because of that. But theres so many and somebody that is no here, a woman named veronica ramirez. Give you an example of what happens with sanctuary. She was a Domestic Violence victim. Called the santa rosa police. They arrested the perpetrator. He was had been deported previously. Ice filed a detainer. And then the day that they decided to release him, instead of calling ice and giving ice a chance to show up, they were 1 1 2 hours away. They gave him 16 minutes to show up and released him. 16 days later, he murder mrs. Ramirez. According to kevin deleon was the author of the sanctuary bill, that makes the state safer, if you educational federal Law Enforcement over here and you keep the state Law Enforcement here, that makes the state safer. Thats absurd, its outrageous and something has to be done and i hope that as agnes said, if we dont kill this in california,it will spread. Its a death sentence for american lawabiding citizens. Id like to thank the president , the Vice President and everybody else here, director hohmann, youve been an incredible fred. John, barbara and my new friend today, kristen nielson. Thank you very much, particularly Law Enforcement. I said would you like to speak. You said no. She said ive been crying for too long, for too much. I just want to thank everybody for being here. I know these families. I know many more families that have gone through the same thing. I cannot imagine it being any worse. But we pledge to act with strength and with resolve and in the memory of those that have been lost so needlessly. Its because of families like yours that my administration created the new office of vhs, the victims of immigrant crime engagement, which has been doing i hear a fantastic job. Call it voice. So that your voices can be heard. Today we have released the first voice report within the first months of voice. Weve opened more than 2,800 victims registered to receive information on their perpetrator. Were following these people. Were following them. So it cant happen again by that individual. Voice assists hundreds of families already connected them to Crucial Services such as grief counselling, followed up their cases and helped ensure that criminal aliens that harmed their families so egregiously were detained. We want safety in our country. We want border security. We dont want people in our country that dont go through a process. We want people in our country based on merit, not based on a draw where other countries put their absolute worst in a bin and start drawing people. Where you think theyre going to put their good ones . They dont put their good ones. They put their bad ones. When they commit crimes, were so surprised. Well not rest until our border is security, our citizens are safe and we finally end the Immigration Crisis once and for all. We want safety in our country. We want Strong Borders. We wand people to come in, but we want them to come in the proper way. So thank you all for being here. These are incredible families, incredible people. Your loves ones have not died in vain. Much of what were doing is because of what youve had to endure. We just thank you all very much for being here. God bless you all. Thank you. [applause] trace s that the immigration event happening in the eisenhower office. This is an attempt to chair the narrative of whats been happening all week. Weve heard the sounds out of shelters, families separated at the border. The president trying to shift this, families that had loved ones killed by illegals. The president saying where is the outrage over ms13, where is the outrage over families that have had loved ones killed by Illegal Immigrants. Hello. Im Trace Gallagher in for shepard smith. President trump claims democrats are making up phony stories of sadness and grief at the southern border where his policy has separated hundreds of children from their parents. As you just saw, the president met with families of people that said that they were permanently separated from loved ones. They didnt get to say goodbye. They didnt get to reunite. By undocumented immigrants. Watch this. Were gathered today to hear from the american victims of illegal immigration. You know, you hear the other side. You never hear this side. Today a gauatemalan mother sued the government but got her son back today. Democrats say President Trump is trying to use the children as leverage to force through a republican immigration bill. Hes taking infant children hostage. Wrenching them from the arms of their parents. Traumaizing them perhaps for life. After calling on congress to fix the problem by passing an immigration bill, the president is telling gop lawmakers to stop wasting their time and wait till after the november midterms. Lets get to john roberts. The president has had a number of events and had people on stage during Campaign Events when it comes to angel families. People that lost a love one due to crime from illegals. Cant help but think about the timing here. The president rather stridently criticizing the coverage or comparing the coverage of what we see on the border to what he says is underreported and that is the plight of these angel families. Listen here. Where is the media outrage over the catch and release policy that allows drugs in. Where is the condemnation of the democrats sanctuary cities that release violent criminals in hour communities and then protect them . The president sowing some confusion on capitol hill after pressing congress this week to pass the Immigration Reform. The president tweeted out this morning, republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators in november. Dems are just playing games. They have no intention of doing anything to solve this be pro. Well pass great legislation after the red wave. That stands in contrast to what the president said yesterday here at the white house where he said that he would be willing to sit down with democrats and work with congress to get his Immigration Reform measures passed. Listen here. This has been going on for decades. They have to sit down. Ill be willing to do it. I just told you ill invite senator schumer and nancy pelosi. They can come over, bring whoever they want. The lawmakers have to sit down and they have to do something. Our country cannot continue to run like this. We cant have open borders. The president showing a little confusion at the beginning of his remarks there where he singled out the san diego mayor for alerting Illegal Immigrants to ice raids. That was not the san diego mayor. The san diego mayor, kevin faulkner, is a republican. It was the oakland mayor, libby schaaf that did that. Make sure everybody at home had that one right. Trace yeah, john, we talked about the first ladys visit to a childrens shelter and the jacket, the choice of jacket she was wearing. What more do we know about that . She didnt wear the jacket at the shelter. She wore it as she boarded the aircraft. It was a 39 jacket that she wore that had pseudograffiti written on the back that said i really dont care, do you . People speculated to the message. Her spokeswoman told fox news its a jacket. There was no hidden message. After todays important visit to texas, i hope the media isnt going to chose to focus on her wardrobe. Grisham added, much like her high heels last year. The president tweeted, i really dont care, do you, referring to the fake news media. Melania has learned how honest they are and she doesnt care about them. Clearly the jacket has been somewhat the focus of her visit yesterday as opposed to what she was there for. Trace . Indeed. John roberts live at the white house. President trump says republicans are wasting their time trying to pass an immigration bill before the midterms. But some republicans say theyre not giving up. Were live on capitol hill with the latest next. Battery in your smart lock . Maybe not. Maybe you could trust you wont have to actually talk to your neighbor. Are you watching the game tonight . Or. You could just trust duracell. You might or joints. Hing for your heart. You could just trust duracell. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. vo imagine a visibly healthin 28 days. Purina one. Natural ingredients, plus vitamins and minerals in powerful combinations. For radiant coats, sparkling eyes, and vibrant energy. Purina one. 28 days. One visibly healthy pet. Trace somehow republicans say here not giving up on the house immigration bill. One bill already failed. Gop leaders delayed a vote on another bill twice. Peter doocy is live on capitol hill. Peter . Even though republicans have a majority, Party Leaders keep coming up short as they try to find enough votes to advance an immigration package. They say they wont give up. Were going move forward. Its an uphill fight to push the coalition to come together. It would be nice if you had one democrat that was willing to vote for a bill that secures americas border. So far none have been willing to do that. Conservatives in the house that watched their immigration bill fail yesterday are thrilled. President trump is trying to tank the leadership preferred plan as the compromise bill because the compromise is it provides the full 25 billion for a border wall but provides a pathway to citizenship for Daca Recipients brought to the country as kids. I think the president is right on this. If they had brought the ryan amnesty bill last night or this morning, they all know it would have failed. The majority leader, Kevin Mccarthy control whats gets a vote on the floor insists today there will be an immigration vote next week. Trace . Trace peter, what about democrats . What are they saying . Theres no way theyre going to jump on board with this immigration plan. The compromise plan as long as theres so much money for a border wall. Look, the border wall, if these children are being damaged so that he can win a proposition on a border wall, which so many of his republicans think will not solve the problem, were for border security. We dont think the border wall is a good solution. Other democrats are saying they would be willing to work with republicans to fix the immigration system, but near complaining that nobody asks for their input. Honestly, its very frustrating. For were working on a bipartisan solution. We came up with a solution together that we agreed to and now we went to leadership. To the republican leadership. Say sit down with us. We heard nothing back from them. So republicans in the house are trying to do it without any democratic vo