Immigration

Trump’s guest list for the speech includes family members of victims of crimes committed by people in the country illegally. Two women invited to attend the speech are widows of California police officers killed in the line of duty in 2014 by someone in the country illegally. Also on the guest list is the father of a high school football star shot by a gang member who was in the country illegally. Trump has often highlighted such stories as evidence of the cost imposed by illegal immigration. Among the cases he has often cited has been Sarah Root, the 21-year-old Iowa woman killed in Omaha last year in a crash authorities say was caused by a man in the country illegally.