Trump Invited The Relatives Of Those Killed By Undocumented Immigrants To Congress

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

For his first speech before a joint session of the United States Congress tonight, President Donald Trump will feature three guests whose family members were killed by undocumented immigrants in this country.

As reported by the ABC network, among the special guests of Trump are two widows of California police officers and the father of another man, all murdered by people who were in this country illegally. The trio will sit next to the country's first lady, Melania Trump, on the presidential balcony.

One of them will be Jamiel Shaw, father of Jamiel Jr., A high school student and football player, who was killed in 2008 by a gang member. Shaw was a regular speaker at Trump's campaign campaigns and announcements, including the Republican National Convention. Also in attendance tonight are guests of Trump Jessica Davis and Susan Oliver, the widows of Detective Michael Davis Jr. and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, who were killed in 2014 while on duty in the state of California.

In a press release, the White House noted that the names of these two officers "were honored in the Davis-Oliver law that seeks to increase cooperation between federal and local officials to enforce our immigration laws."

Other special guests of Trump during his first appearance in Congress tonight: people with stories of overcoming like Megan Crowley, a Pompe disease survivor; Denisha Merriweather, the young student who became the first person in her family to complete a college degree thanks to an educational program in Florida; and Maureen McCarthy Scalia, the widow of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.