Woman Tells Pelosi About Illegal Who Burned Her Son Alive, ‘Will He Get Sanctuary’ in San Fran?
UNKNOWN FEMALE: "He tortured him, he beat him, he tied him up like an animal, and he set him on fire. And I am not a one story mother. This happens every day because there are no laws enforcing the border. We have to start giving American families first. This is not bad to not put Americans first. You know, we have family that fought and died for this country.How do you reconcile in your head about allowing people to disavow the law? And the second part of my question is this. If you need to go home tonight and line up your babies, as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of them could you look in their eyes today and tell them that they're expendable for another foreign person to have a nicer life? Which one would you look to say, 'You, my child, are expendable for someone else to come over here and not follow the law and have a nicer life?'"
PELOSI: "Well, again, I commend you for sharing your story. I can't even imagine the pain."
UNKNOWN FEMALE: "You can't."
PELOSI: "No, I can't even imagine. There's nothing, I'm sure, that can compare to the grief that you have. And so I pray for you. I pray for you. And again, we all pray that none of us has to experience what you have experienced. So thank you for channeling your energy to help prevent something like that from happening. But I do want to say to you that in our sanctuary cities, our people are not disobeying the law. These are law-abiding citizens. It enables them to be there without being reported to ICE in case of another crime that they might bear witness to."
UNKNOWN FEMALE: "Will my son's killer get sanctuary in your city once he's let out of jail?"
PELOSI: "I'm sorry, dear?"
UNKNOWN FEMALE: "Will my son's killer get sanctuary from the law in your city when he gets out of jail?"
PELOSI: "Of course not. Of course not. Was your son in a sanctuary city when this happened?"
UNKNOWN FEMALE: "Houston is. It was just outside Houston."
PELOSI: "Is that where your son -- was he a victim of somebody in a sanctuary city?
UNKNOWN FEMALE: "It was a spoken policy at that time. It was not written. But most of the suburbs, all of the big cities... "
PELOSI: "No, but, I mean, it doesn't matter, you've lost your son, and that's the important thing. But I just do think that we have to stipulate to a set of facts, and the fact is, is that, no, no, your son would not -- that's not what the point is. The point is, is that you do not turn law enforcement officers into immigration officers. That is really what the point is in the sanctuary city. So it's not a question of giving sanctuary to someone who has -- who is guilty of a crime. They should be deported."
