Trump keeps three-word promise to grieving mom whose daughter was found dead in migrant’s trash can
In a nation where too many grieving parents say they’ve been ignored by their own elected leaders, one Illinois mother says she found something rare in Donald Trump: a president who listened—and acted.
Jennifer Bos, whose daughter Megan was found dead in a grisly case that has shaken a Chicago suburb, recalled the moment she locked eyes with Trump and heard a promise she will never forget: “Watch what happens.”
Bos is part of a group known as Angel Families—Americans whose loved ones were killed by individuals in the country illegally. On Monday, she joined other families at a White House memorial ceremony alongside Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“It was moving,” Bos said of the ceremony in a Fox News interview. “I could feel how important that we are to [Trump] when we aren’t important to anyone else, that means everything.”
Bos recounted the horror that upended her family. Her daughter had been missing for two months.
“My daughter had been missing for two months. We were searching frantically for her, and she was ultimately discovered in the backyard, in a garbage can full of bleach, of an illegal immigrant in Lake County, Illinois. And he was arrested that day, and he spent the night in jail. He went to court the next morning and was released immediately afterward to just go back home,” Bos explained.
According to Bos, local authorities were prepared to let the suspect walk free without even notifying federal immigration officials. She said it was the result of Illinois’ sanctuary policies—policies she believes prioritize politics over public safety.
“They weren’t going to hold him, but they weren’t also going to report him. They were going to let this man, a person who’s willing to do something so nefarious, and just let him go back home into the community. It’s unbelievable,” she said.
Bos first crossed paths with Trump during a White House bill signing ceremony. She hadn’t planned to speak. But grief has a way of pushing courage to the surface.
“I was right along the path he was walking out. I don’t know what came over me, but I just shouted out, ‘Mr. President’ twice, and he turned around, and he looked at me, and I gave him the briefest roundabout of the story that I could in that little bit of time, and he shook his head. You could just see the disgust in his face.”
Then came the moment.
“He kind of turned away, and then he turned back at me, and he pointed at me, and he said, ‘Watch what happens.’”
Bos says she spoke with Trump for no more than half a minute.
“I talked to [Trump] for 20 seconds, 30 seconds, maybe. And in that amount of time, he knew exactly what I needed, and then he did it,” she said. “I’m just, you know, your average American mom, grandma, I’m nobody, and he listened to me, and he felt it was important enough to help me. I just think that right there, that’s what makes a president.”
Three days later, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested the suspect, Jose Mendoza Gonzalez, and transferred him to a detention facility in Indiana, according to Bos.
For her, the message was clear: someone in power was finally paying attention.
While Bos says she found empathy and action in Washington, she describes something very different at home in Illinois under Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.
“[He] has never once mentioned Megan’s name, he’s never acknowledged what happened, he’s never reached out to me,” Bos said.
Bos says that in half a minute, the president of the United States heard her plea and followed through.
Critics may debate immigration numbers and legal frameworks. But for Angel Families, the issue is painfully simple: laws exist for a reason, and when they aren’t enforced, Americans pay the price.
Jennifer Bos, whose daughter Megan was found dead in a grisly case that has shaken a Chicago suburb, recalled the moment she locked eyes with Trump and heard a promise she will never forget: “Watch what happens.”
Bos is part of a group known as Angel Families—Americans whose loved ones were killed by individuals in the country illegally. On Monday, she joined other families at a White House memorial ceremony alongside Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“It was moving,” Bos said of the ceremony in a Fox News interview. “I could feel how important that we are to [Trump] when we aren’t important to anyone else, that means everything.”
Bos recounted the horror that upended her family. Her daughter had been missing for two months.
“My daughter had been missing for two months. We were searching frantically for her, and she was ultimately discovered in the backyard, in a garbage can full of bleach, of an illegal immigrant in Lake County, Illinois. And he was arrested that day, and he spent the night in jail. He went to court the next morning and was released immediately afterward to just go back home,” Bos explained.
According to Bos, local authorities were prepared to let the suspect walk free without even notifying federal immigration officials. She said it was the result of Illinois’ sanctuary policies—policies she believes prioritize politics over public safety.
“They weren’t going to hold him, but they weren’t also going to report him. They were going to let this man, a person who’s willing to do something so nefarious, and just let him go back home into the community. It’s unbelievable,” she said.
Bos first crossed paths with Trump during a White House bill signing ceremony. She hadn’t planned to speak. But grief has a way of pushing courage to the surface.
“I was right along the path he was walking out. I don’t know what came over me, but I just shouted out, ‘Mr. President’ twice, and he turned around, and he looked at me, and I gave him the briefest roundabout of the story that I could in that little bit of time, and he shook his head. You could just see the disgust in his face.”
Then came the moment.
“He kind of turned away, and then he turned back at me, and he pointed at me, and he said, ‘Watch what happens.’”
Bos says she spoke with Trump for no more than half a minute.
“I talked to [Trump] for 20 seconds, 30 seconds, maybe. And in that amount of time, he knew exactly what I needed, and then he did it,” she said. “I’m just, you know, your average American mom, grandma, I’m nobody, and he listened to me, and he felt it was important enough to help me. I just think that right there, that’s what makes a president.”
Three days later, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested the suspect, Jose Mendoza Gonzalez, and transferred him to a detention facility in Indiana, according to Bos.
For her, the message was clear: someone in power was finally paying attention.
While Bos says she found empathy and action in Washington, she describes something very different at home in Illinois under Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.
“[He] has never once mentioned Megan’s name, he’s never acknowledged what happened, he’s never reached out to me,” Bos said.
Bos says that in half a minute, the president of the United States heard her plea and followed through.
Critics may debate immigration numbers and legal frameworks. But for Angel Families, the issue is painfully simple: laws exist for a reason, and when they aren’t enforced, Americans pay the price.
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