Marcus Coleman, the father of a California girl permanently disabled by an illegal immigrant, blasts sanctuary city policies at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday. Coleman’s daughter, Dalilah, suffered a fractured skull, broken femur, and traumatic brain injury in the 2024 California crash after an 18-wheeler driven by an illegal immigrant crashed into the vehicle she was in. At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing, Coleman told Democratic members of Congress that he “rejects their sympathy.”

MARCUS COLEMAN: How is that okay? How are you guys not fighting for this? Right here, how are you guys not fighting for this? I reject your guys’ sympathy, to be honest with you. There’s no way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys have ever called me. Not one of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, hey, sorry about your daughter. You guys do it right here while you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is when you guys care. Right here inside this room is the only time you guys care. I’ve never received anything from anybody over here at all regarding my daughter or my family or anything. Hey, Mr. Coleman, your guys’ Delilah Law, I wanna help you revise it so that we’re interested inside of it. Nothing. You guys have no pathway to anything. You guys wanna sit there and talk about the pathway to citizenship. There is a pathway. It’s not jump the fence and apply. That’s not the way it goes. There’s a process to get it done. You don’t just do that. I can’t just go over there and go sit down inside one of those seats and become a Democrat. Oh, you know what? I probably could. I honestly probably could. So I’m not even gonna say that. But I can’t go inside a hospital and become a doctor just because I want to and go put on a coat and come to work. It’s getting ridiculous the way things are going now. It honestly is. It makes no sense at all. Sanctuary cities allow so much to be done that it’s almost like the parent’s not there to take care of the household. And everybody’s running around and doing what they wanna do. And it sucks. It honestly does. You guys sit there and you guys talk about ICE invading cities and doing this and doing that. I agree with Mr. Gordon, Jordan, sorry. That if you guys, if the state sat there and told them come pick up the person, it would take one or two people to go do it. Instead, they gotta send an army out there because now they have to look for them. And then since it’s a sanctuary state, you got people sitting there abusing the ICE officers that are out there. I have a whole statement right here that I was gonna read to you guys, but just listening to you guys, none of this is relevant anymore because you guys just changed so much. It makes no sense at all. My daughter doesn’t deserve this. She didn’t ask for any of this. The people that jumped the fence did though. They knew exactly what they were doing. They still chose to move forward in that direction. And every day something’s happening to somebody. And it is your guys’ fault. I hold each and every one of you responsible for it. And I always will.

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