What is Angel Family Day? Trump signs Feb. 22 proclamation

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Trump brings retired mendacious predetermination claims arsenic he honors ‘angel families’ to rally his anti-migrant agenda

President Donald Trump has declared February 22 “National Angel Family Day,” coinciding pinch nan time assemblage student Laken Riley was killed successful 2024.
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was jogging adjacent field erstwhile an forbidden immigrant, Jose Ibarra, attacked and killed her. He was recovered blameworthy and sentenced to life successful prison.
Trump signed a proclamation Monday recognizing “Angel Families” who mislaid loved ones, allegedly astatine nan hands of migrants who had been successful problem pinch rule enforcement previously. Trump invited respective family members to speak, pinch immoderate offering effusive praise arsenic they each thanked him for his hardline anti-immigrant policies.
At nan event, nan president lashed retired at Democrats pinch mendacious claims of predetermination fraud and accused overseas nations of sending undesirable group to nan United States arsenic he tried to rally his anti-immigrant guidelines and revive nationalist support for his profoundly unpopular migration crackdown.
The president’s anti-immigration proclamation comes a time earlier he delivers his State of nan Union speech, wherever he is erstwhile again expected to reside nan separator and his ongoing scheme to footwear undocumented migrants from nan country.

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