Marcus Coleman didn’t come to Congress looking for sympathy.
He came to unload on Democrats.
The father of a 7-year-old girl left permanently disabled after a tractor-trailer crash tore into Democratic lawmakers during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, accusing them of caring about his family only when the cameras were on.
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“Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter,’” Coleman said.
“You guys do it right here where you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox.”
Then he pointed to the reason he was there.
His daughter, Dalilah.
The 7-year-old suffered a fractured skull, broken femur and traumatic brain injury in a 2024 Southern California crash involving an 18-wheeler driven by Partap Singh, an Indian national authorities identified as being in the country illegally.
Singh had obtained a California commercial driver’s license.
Authorities said the truck was traveling about 60 mph through a construction zone when Singh failed to stop for traffic and struck the vehicle carrying Dalilah.
The injuries changed the Coleman family’s life.
Coleman told lawmakers he has stopped driving trucks himself, is stretching every dollar and is raising nine children while caring for a daughter who now uses a wheelchair.
And he wasn’t interested in hearing expressions of concern from politicians he believes helped create the conditions that led to the crash.
“This is when you guys care,” Coleman said.
“Right here inside this room is the only time you guys care.”
Coleman also pushed back against any suggestion that his anger was directed at immigrants generally.
He pointed to his own wife.
“My wife, an immigrant. She did what she’s supposed to do,” he said. “She did exactly what she’s supposed to do to get here.”
His sharpest moment came when he turned the hearing away from abstractions about immigration policy and toward his daughter.
“This is the end result of Sanctuary City right here,” Coleman said, pointing to Dalilah’s wheelchair.
“Every day something is happening to somebody … and it is your guys’ fault,” Coleman said. “I hold each and every one of you responsible for it. And I always will,” Coleman added.
Watch the clip below:
Coleman also pointed to his wife — a legal immigrant — as proof the system works when people follow it.
“My wife, an immigrant. She did what she’s supposed to do,” he said. “She did exactly what she’s supposed to do to get here.”
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