At a CNN townhall Tuesday night, Nancy Pelosi was asked by a sobbing mother who lost her son to an illegal immigrant, who she said brutally tortured him before death, which one of her grandchildren she would give up to make room for an illegal.



"If you need to go home tonight and line up your babies as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of them could you look in their eyes today, and tell them that they're expendable for another foreign person to have an a nicer life? Which one would you look to say, you, my child, are expendable for someone else to come over here and not follow the law and have a nicer life?" Laura Wilkerson, who said her son was "slaughtered" by an illegal immigrant, asked Pelosi.



"I pray for you," Pelosi responded. "Again, we all pray that none of us has to experience what you have experienced. So thank you for channelling your energy to help prevent something like that from happening."



"But I do want to say to you, that in our sanctuary cities, our people are not disobeying the law," Pelosi said. "These are law-abiding citizens, it enables them to, to be there without being reported to ICE in case of another crime that they might bear witness to."



Wilkerson's question:





LAURA WILKERSON, SON KILLED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT: Please excuse my voice tonight. There are over 300 cities in this country that are sanctuary cities. Like San Francisco. And you're not only choosing to disavow a law, but you are adding sanctuary to people who come there and disavow the law.



In 2010, one of the illegals slaughtered my son. He tortured him, he beat him, he tied him up like an animal, and he set him on fire. And I am not a one-story mother. This happens every day. Because there are no laws enforcing the border. We have to start giving American families first.



This is not -- bad to not put Americans first. We have family that fought and died for this country.



How do you reconcile in your head about allowing people to disavow the law?



And the second part of my question is this -- if you need to go home tonight and line up your babies as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of them could you look in their eyes today, and tell them that they're expendable for another foreign person to have an a nicer life? Which one would you look to say, you, my child, are expendable for someone else to come over here and not follow the law and have a nicer life?

REP. NANCY PELOSI, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: Well, again, I commend you for sharing your story. I can't even imagine --



WILKERSON: You can't.



PELOSI: -- the pain. I can't even imagine. There is, there is nothing, I'm sure that can compare to the grief that you have. And so I pray for you. I pray for you. Again, we all pray that none of us has to experience what you have experienced. So thank you for channelling your energy to help prevent something like that from happening. But I do want to say to you, that in our sanctuary cities, our people are not disobeying the law.



These are law-abiding citizens, it enables them to, to be there without being reported to ICE in case of another crime that they might bear witness to.

Pelosi's response:The person who followed Wilkerson was a man born in Mexico and brought to the U.S. as a one-year-old who garnered applause after he told his story."The DREAMers are so spectacular and so inspirational to all of us. And that is why when we had the majority in the Congress, the House of Representatives, led by our Congressional Hispanic Caucus, passed the DREAMers act," Pelosi said.