President Donald Trump urges Congress to pass the One Bill Beautiful Bill Act alongside the relatives of people slain at the hands of illegal immigrants. (Fox News)
"We will end this invasion once and for all. And we're always going to remember the memory of Katie, that beautiful, beautiful 20-year-old daughter of yours," Trump said, before her father walked over to the president, shook his hand and provided Trump a picture of his daughter that the president held up for the audience.
Trump then highlighted a mother from Texas, Sarah Stuart, who the president said lost her brother to the ongoing fentanyl epidemic created by the United States' porous border policies.
"Our bill provides billions and billions of dollars to stop fentanyl and other illicit narcotics," Trump said. "We're also charging other countries like Mexico, Canada and China billions of dollars in taxes that we put on because they've allowed people that are selling fentanyl to go through their countries. Or, in the case of China, they send it here."
On Thursday, shortly before Trump's "big, beautiful event" at the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new visa restrictions for the families of fentanyl traffickers.
A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)
"Every single one of us is living with a permanent hole in our lives because an illegal immigrant, who never should have been in this country, was allowed to stay and take an innocent life," the letter states. "These were preventable tragedies. And yet, year after year, Washington offers excuses instead of solutions. That must end now."
Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
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