Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump met Tuesday with Virginia father Ray Tranchant, whose child was killed as a result of lax immigration enforcement policies during then-Governor Tim Kaine’s administration.

Tranchant’s sixteen year old daughter, Tessa, was murdered in 2007 by an illegal alien drunk driver, Alfredo Ramos.

On two separate occasions, Ramos had been arrested and released under then-Governor Kaine’s administration before Ramos eventually went on to murder Tranchant’s daughter.

Tessa and her best friend, 17-year-old Allison Kunhardt, were stopped at a stoplight and were wearing their seatbelts when Ramos crashed into the back of their vehicle at over 70 mph. The girls were killed instantly. Ramos had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit.

During his meeting with the Donald Trump, Tranchant said he had reached out to Kaine at the time. Tranchant said he went to Kaine’s office to discuss why an illegal alien, who had been arrested twice with a previous DUI offense, had not been deported, but was instead allowed to roam free and remain in the country before eventually killing Tranchant’s teenage daughter.

Tranchant said that when asked, Kaine’s office indicated that he was “not interested” in enforcing U.S. immigration law.

Virginia- @realDonaldTrump met a family who lost their child to an illegal immigrant-he went to Tim Kaine’s office.. pic.twitter.com/qVNeeB5fmI — Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) September 6, 2016

“I became an advocate for change,” Tranchant told Trump during the Tuesday meeting. “I even went to Tim Kaine and his office. I talked to his legal counsel. I said, ‘Why don’t we enforce the law? 287(g). It provides state police training, we can find the status of illegal immigrants. And he said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not interested.'” Tranchant said.

Last week, Kaine made headlines by falsely suggesting that sanctuary cities, which have resulted in the deaths and victimization of innocent Americans, are “phantom” and do not exist. Trump’s campaign demanded that Kaine apologize for the statement.

Trump’s National Policy Director, Stephen Miller, wrote in a statement to Mediaite:

Tim Kaine’s comment is an insult to the countless Americans who have been killed by Sanctuary City policies, and is further evidence that Clinton-Kaine have no regard for the innocent lives threatened by their open borders policies. There are now 300 federally-recognized Sanctuary Cities — which, in a 19-month period, together refused more than 17,000 detainers for high-risk illegal immigrants and criminals resulting in harm to countless Americans… Kaine should retract his comment at once, and apologies to the families who have suffered.

Indeed, Kaine’s statement suggesting that Sanctuary Cities do not exist is particularly remarkable given that Tranchant lost his daughter as a direct result of then-Governor Kaine’s support for lax immigration enforcement.

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly commented on Tranchant’s death at the time, and noted that Governor Kaine did not “seem to care” about stopping illegal alien crime. O’Reilly said:

Once again, a sanctuary city policy has killed Americans. As we reported last night, 17-year-old Allison Kunhardt and 16-year-old Tessa Tranchant were killed by an illegal alien drunk driver in Virginia. The man, 22-year-old Alfredo Ramos from Mexico, had three previous alcohol-related convictions, and also an identity-theft conviction, but he had never been sentenced to prison. The incidents all took place in and around Virginia Beach, which is a sanctuary city. That means the authorities do not report criminal illegal aliens to the feds, unless it’s a drastic situation… The governor of Virginia, Timothy Kaine, he doesn’t seem to care much about policing illegal aliens.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News last week, Trump denounced Clinton for refusing to meet with the American victims of illegal alien crime. “It’s terrible,” Trump said. “She pays no respect to those incredible people who have lost their children — in most cases children — but children and brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers. But it seems to be mostly children. These are great people. These are great citizens of our country and she doesn’t even talk about it. It’s very strange.”

Tranchant, who supports Trump over Clinton, said that he has been astonished by the “incredible craziness” of the government’s failure to enforce immigration laws. “We have 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States,” Tranchant said. “That’s the incredible craziness that’s going on that I just can’t believe. And believe me, I have a very focused attention to this subject because it affected me. And I wouldn’t wish this upon anybody.”

“There’s no group, just like our candidate, [there’s no group] of people whom I hate. I don’t hate the guy who killed my daughter. I forgive him. I don’t hate people that are illegal. I don’t hate them at all… but I don’t like the way the government is handling this,” Tranchant added.

In 2010, Tranchant wrote the following about his daughter’s death: