The Patriot Post® · Honoring Angel Families

By Gary Bauer ·
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/125434-honoring-angel-families-2026-02-25

President Trump hosted a very emotional event at the White House Monday. One day after the second anniversary of Laken Riley’s murder, the Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal alien Joe Biden allowed into the country, President Trump invited several Angel Families to Washington, D.C., to share their stories and to honor them.
 
The president also signed a proclamation designating February 22nd as National Angel Family Day.
 
While the media devoted countless stories to leftist protesters Rachel Good and Alex Pretti, few Americans can tell you anything about Rachel Morin or Joshua Wilkerson. But their family members were at the White House Monday to remind the nation that innocent Americans have paid a terrible price because of open borders and illegal immigration.
 
Laura Wilkerson, whose son, Joshua, was tortured and killed by an illegal alien, recounted meeting Donald Trump 11 years ago. She said:
 
“He watched as the tears rolled down my face as I told him the story of how our youngest son, Joshua, was brutally beaten, tortured, strangled to death, and his body set on fire…
 
"He never, ever, looked away from my pain. He looked me straight in the eye, and he said, ‘I will never forget the story of your sweet son, and I will never give up fighting for the American family.’ … He has never missed a day of fighting for the American family.”
 
Jody Jones’s brother, Rocky, was shot and killed by an illegal alien. Jones blasted open borders Democrats, saying:
 
“I’m sick and tired of hearing these Democrat politicians stand up … and say how sorry they are for seeing these criminal illegal aliens being ‘ripped apart’ from their families. What about us? What about the American family? What about us? We mean something, too, and [President Trump] understands it.”
 
The stories of these Angel Families must be told. Americans deserve to know about the pain and suffering that left-wing open border and soft on crime policies have inflicted on so many of their fellow citizens.
 
But Big Media ignored Monday’s White House event. It doesn’t support the Left’s narrative that puts illegal foreign nationals over American citizens and seeks to portray Donald Trump as a “heartless and cruel dictator.”
 
 
 
Lies Of The Left
 
Much of what Democrats say is built on the assumption that we won’t remember what they have said before. For example, some Democrats and media talking heads are saying, “President Trump had better respect the Supreme Court’s tariff decision. No president has openly defied the court.”
 
Joe Biden certainly did. When his student loan debt scheme was struck down by the Supreme Court, Biden literally bragged about finding a way around the court, saying, “They didn’t stop me.”
 
Even after the Supreme Court ruled 9 to 0 to protect the Little Sisters of the Poor from subsidizing abortion and contraception, Biden went after them again.
 
Countless commentators have said, “We’ve never seen a politician attack judges and courts like Trump does.” Well, I remember when Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name.
 
Once Donald Trump got three justices on the Supreme Court, Democrats repeatedly attacked the court as “illegitimate.” And after leftist mobs showed up at the justices’ houses, Democrats refused to provide the justices and their families additional security.
 
In fact, Democrat attacks on the court were so over-the-top that they inspired a left-wing activist to travel across the country and try to assassinate conservative justices.
 
 
 
Left-wing Lunacy
 
Detransitioner Chloe Cole was in the House gallery at last night’s State of the Union address. Cole is suing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals for rushing her into radical transgender procedures when she was only 15 years old. Her case was just assigned a court date for April 5, 2027.
 
More and more gender-denying lunatics masquerading as doctors and psychologists are being sued for medical malpractice by adults and children like Chloe Cole. May their numbers increase.
 
Here’s another reminder that once you declare war on truth, normalcy, reality, and every value that has guided civilization, there is no bottom to the pit.
 
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently fired an elementary school teacher at Fort Bragg. Why? Because the teacher told little children that he was a wolf. Not only was he transgender and dressed in women’s clothing, he also wore a dog collar and tail.
 
Parents repeatedly complained about the teacher’s behavior, but Fort Bragg’s educational system claimed to be powerless to discipline a crazy transgender employee. So, it seems Secretary Hegseth had to intervene.
 
These nuts are all wolves, and they would love to devour our children!