On Tuesday's Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News gave coverage to a congressional hearing on car crash deaths that have been caused by illegal aliens and facilitated by Democrat-run sanctuary states.
Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier
September 15, 2026
6:28 p.m. Eastern
BRET BAIER: Tonight, we're hearing from parents of children killed by illegal immigrant drivers, as congressional Republicans continue to pressure Democrats and sanctuary jurisdictions over this issue. Congressional correspondent Bill Melugin has the latest story from Capitol Hill.
ELIZABETH CARTER, MOTHER OF CAR CRASH VICTIM: As a lifelong Democrat, I am ashamed of what my party is doing.
BILL MELUGIN: Angel mom, Elizabeth Carter, face-to-face with Democrats on Capitol Hill today, as she testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee on behalf of her late son William. William and his newlywed wife were both killed in November after an illegal alien truck driver from India allegedly jackknifed and caused a crash on a highway in Oregon. DHS says that driver was caught and released at the border by the Biden administration and given a commercial driver's license by the sanctuary state of California.
CARTER: I keep hearing how many people have been killed by ICE. Does anybody know how many people, how many American citizens have been kill by illegal immigrants that should not have been here in the first place?
MELUGIN: Also testifying today
ANATOLY VARFOLOMEEVA, FATHER OF CAR CRASH VICTIM: I'm just an angry, grieving father.
MELUGIN: His daughter Anya was killed by a drunk, speeding previously deported illegal alien who crashed into her on a Southern California freeway in 2021. She burned alive.
VARFOLOMEEVA: Our tragedy was the direct result of crazy, sinister, incomprehensible stupidly anti-American open border policy by the Biden-Harris administration.
MELUGIN: Democrats say the focus shouldn't be on sanctuary policies.
CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-WA): We should be holding hearings on real solutions that fix an immigration system that has not been modernized to meet the needs of our country in over 30 years.
MELUGIN: Republicans highlighted the realities of sanctuary policies.
CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN (R-OH): ICE notifies you, sends a detainer -- in New York what do you have to do?
UNIDENTIFIED SHERIFF: Let them out the backdoor.
CONGRESSMAN JORDAN: Let them out the backdoor.
MELUGIN: And, Bret, a handful of those committee Democrats went very off topic during this hearing on sanctuary policies today. That included New York Congressman Dan Goldman, who asked that sheriff you just saw there from New York about his personal sex life. The sheriff then called Goldman a degenerate for asking him.
. steve malzberg
