Dad of Disabled Girl Rips Democrats at Hearing

Coleman said no Democratic lawmaker had ever contacted him. "Not one of you guys have ever called me. Not one of you guys have ever reached out to me," he said. "You guys do that right here while you are grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is when you guys care. Right here inside this room is the only time you guys care."

Pointing to his daughter, he said: "This is the end result of Sanctuary City right here." He also told the panel: "I think that building needs to get checked for mold or something, because you guys are really out of your guys' mind thinking that sanctuary cities are the way to go."

Coleman said the crash ended his own trucking career. "I'm no longer truck driving. I no longer make the money that we used to make. I'm now pinching pennies," he said. "I have nine kids, by the way, that I take care of."

He drew a line between his wife's immigration and illegal entry: "My wife, an immigrant. She did what she's supposed to do. She did exactly what she's supposed to do to get here." On calls for a pathway to citizenship, he said: "There is a pathway — it's not jump the fence and apply."

Patricia Fox, the mother of Carissa Aspnes, described lifting her daughter with a Hoyer lift, blending her food and feeding her through a G-tube, and sleeping lightly in case a pulse oximeter alarm sounds. "Despite her initial prognosis, Carissa survived. Praise God, but survival and recovery are not the same," Fox testified. She told Democrats: "You need to love Americans more than you hate Trump. It's literally your job."

ICE told the New York Post that "sanctuary politicians must stop putting politics above public safety," adding: "This type of insanity leads to more crimes and more innocent victims."