President Gives Voice to ‘Ignored Families’ Amidst Immigration Debate

President Donald Trump greets people holding posters of their relatives who were killed by illegal immigrants, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on June 22, 2018. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—They are the families that have been permanently separated.

“Any time we want to see or be close to our kids, we go to the cemetery, because that’s where they are,” said Laura Wilkerson from Pearland, Texas. Her 18-year-old son, Josh, was killed in 2010.