Subject: 'When Will You Act On This?'

Two mothers whose children were killed by illegal immigrants will urge lawmakers on Tuesday to reverse President Obama's immigration enforcement policies and crack down on sanctuary cities.

"When will you act on this?" Laura Wilkerson, whose son Joshua was murdered in 2010 by a high school classmate from Belize, plans to ask House Judiciary subcommittee members during Tuesday's hearing. "Maybe it will take the loss of your child," she said in her prepared remarks.

Wilkerson will appear alongside a Maryland sheriff and Michelle Root, whose daughter Sarah was killed in January by a drunk driver who was an illegal immigrant. The cases implicate sanctuary cities, the Department of Homeland Security's response to the influx of unaccompanied Central American children on the southern border, and the enforcement priorities set by Obama's 2014 executive orders.

Wilkerson intends to give a detailed, blow-by-blow account of her son's murder. "I testified before the Senate last July, 2015 and told this story," she'll say after describing the killing. "Nothing has been done about it. People are dying as we speak from illegal alien criminals. Does anybody here know the number of people whom have died or been raped or brutalized since then? That answer is no. Why? Because the government has no clue who is here or what their intent is in being here."

Transnational gangs, strengthened by illegal immigration, are a growing problem in the United States, according to a Maryland sheriff.

"There are over 75 active known validated transnational criminal gang members in Frederick County, many more suspected of gang affiliation," Sheriff Charles Jenkins will testify. "Transnational alien gangs are structured criminal enterprises involved in drug and human trafficking, crimes of violence over turf, retaliation, money laundering, and other serious crime. As these gangs are recruiting locally and increasing in number, so does the associated crime within communities."

Jenkins is a proponent of local police enforcing federal immigration laws.

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