Former President Trump went to Michigan on Tuesday to hammer President Biden on immigration in a major battleground state. He left beset by controversy, facing questions about whether he fabricated an anecdote about speaking to family members of a murder victim, Politico reports. “I spoke to some of her family,” Trump said of Ruby Garcia, a 25-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant in March. Of Garcia, he said: “she lit up that room, and I’ve heard that from so many people.” Garcia’s sister Mavi enied that Trump heard from any member of Garcia’s family. “He did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and misinforming people on live TV,” Ruby Garcia’s sister told a Grand Rapids NBC affiliate.
Trump has met with family members of victims, including with the parents of Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed on the University of Georgia campus. Mavi Garcia criticized him for using her sister’s death to launch attacks against undocumented immigrants. “It’s always been about illegal immigrants,” she said. “Nobody really speaks about when Americans do heinous crimes, and it’s kind of shocking why he would just bring up illegals. What about Americans who do heinous crimes like that?”
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