In a deeply moving moment at the White House, Allyson Phillips—the grieving mother of murdered University of Georgia student Laken Riley—thanked President Donald Trump for never forgetting the "Angel Families" whose loved ones were brutally killed by illegal aliens during the Biden administration's border catastrophe.
Phillips, who has become a powerful voice for families destroyed by Biden's open-border policies, expressed her gratitude to Trump for keeping his promise to prioritize American victims over the criminals who shouldn't have been in our country in the first place.
"I am beyond grateful that President Trump has not forgotten about our family," Phillips said, representing countless other Angel Families who watched helplessly as the previous administration turned their backs on American victims while rolling out the red carpet for illegal border crossers.
Biden's Border Legacy: American Blood on His Hands
Laken Riley was just 22 years old when she was brutally murdered while jogging on the University of Georgia campus in February 2024. Her killer was an illegal alien from Venezuela who should never have been in our country—a direct result of Biden's deliberate destruction of Trump's successful border security measures.
While Biden and his radical Democrat allies spent four years virtue-signaling about "compassion" for illegal immigrants, they showed zero compassion for families like the Rileys, the Steinles, and countless other American families torn apart by preventable tragedies.
"Every single one of these deaths was preventable. Every Angel Family's suffering could have been avoided if we simply enforced our immigration laws," said one White House official familiar with Trump's immigration priorities.
Trump Delivers Where Biden Failed
Unlike his predecessor who couldn't even be bothered to acknowledge these American victims, President Trump has made Angel Families a central part of his immigration agenda. From Day One of his second term, Trump has launched the largest deportation operation in American history—finally putting American families first.
The question every American should be asking: How many more Laken Rileys have to die before Democrats admit their open-border ideology is a deadly failure? Trump knows the answer is zero—and that's exactly why he's taking action while others just offer empty thoughts and prayers.