PLANT CITY, Fla.—Widow Nikki Jones listened to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis demand during a recent press conference, “Where’s the outrage of the failed border policies of the Biden administration?”
“I don’t hear outrage about the criminal aliens that have gotten through and then victimize people—not only in Florida, but all throughout the country,” he railed.
Choking back tears as she watched him on Facebook, Jones took notice of the governor’s comments.
Then, casting a heart-wrenching look at her two small daughters, she shouted at the screen, “Your outrage is right here!”
Jones’ 40-year-old husband, Shane, was killed three years ago in a traffic accident involving an illegal immigrant with numerous arrests for driving infractions. The 20-year Air Force veteran also left behind two little girls, now 3 and 5.
Along with missing her husband, Nikki Jones now faces challenges that she'd never imagined.
She struggles to pay the mortgage, she told The Epoch Times. And other household bills are piling up too—utilities, groceries, daycare fees, and property taxes.
Nikki and Shane believed they were living in their “forever home,” the place where their girls would take their first steps, where they'd have their first visits from the tooth fairy, and primp for the prom and first dates. Those are now the milestones their father will never be a part of.
Tears well in 5-year-old Harley’s eyes as she touches a photo of her daddy in his military uniform.
“I miss him,” she says softly.
Raven, 3, has no memories of her father. But she knows him well from the stories and the photos on the “memory shelf” that were put up so the girls will never forget.
