The families of Americans who were killed in high-profile crimes, including by illegal immigrants admitted into the United States under President Joe Biden and deadly fentanyl poisonings, made an emotional plea on stage at the Republican convention for voters to back former President Donald Trump.
Immigration, soft-on-crime big city prosecutors, and the opioid epidemic took the spotlight on night two in Milwaukee as a handful of “everyday Americans” took the stage and hammered Biden for border and criminal justice policies that they said have directly caused their suffering.
Anne Fundner shared with the audience the loss of her 15-year-old son, Westin, who died from unknowingly consuming a drug laced with fentanyl.
“In a moment of peer pressure he tried something that someone gave to him and it took my baby’s life. We did everything right. I had those conversations with him and fentanyl still found my son,” said Fundner. “His whole future, everything we ever wanted for him, was ripped away in an instant and Joe Biden does nothing. I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris — the border czar who’s a joke — and Gavin Newsom and every Democrat who supports open border is responsible for the death of my son.”
Fundner received a lengthy standing ovation with members in the audience crying and applauding her.
“Say his name, Joe Biden. Westin,” said Fundner. “We need President Trump back to save the lives of our kids.”
Rachel Morin was a 37-year-old Maryland woman and mother of five children. She was sexually assaulted and murdered last August while on a jog near her home. Police arrested her suspected killer in Oklahoma last month — Victor Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who came over the border under Biden.
Michael Morin, Rachel’s brother, said police told him that the attack on his sister was “among the most brutal and violent offenses that has ever occurred in Harford County, MD, history.”
“My sister’s death was preventable. The monster arrested for killing Rachel entered the U.S. unlawfully after killing a woman in El Salvador. Joe Biden and his designated border czar, Kamala Harris, opened our borders to him and others like him, empowering them to victimize the innocent yet to this day we have not heard from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris,” said Morin and the crowd responded with a loud “boo.”
“They never apologized. But when Rachel was killed, President Trump called my family to offer his condolences. He wanted to meet with us. He cared. That is leadership,” said Morin. “And we need real leadership back in the White House.”
Madeline Brame lost her son, Army Sergeant Hason Correa, when a group of four people stabbed him outside their home in New York City in 2018.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg took over the case and negotiated plea deals with two of the suspects, Brame said.
“The Democratic Party that poor minorities have been loyal to for decades, including myself, they betrayed us. They stabbed us in the back,” said Brame. “Poor and neglected communities like mine are suffering and who else in here is tired of being sick and tired?”
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Randy Sutton, a retired lieutenant of three decades with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and one of the most featured officers on TV series “COPS,” said the U.S. had experienced a “plague of crime across America”
“The endless tsunami of illegal aliens, no consequences for violent crime, the abuse of our criminal justice system that has made America more dangerous than ever before,” said Sutton, who added that police face a “war” under the current climate in America.
