Agnes Gibboney speaks on behalf of her son, Ronald Da Silva, who was murdered by an illegal./Image: Video screenshot via ICE.
In 2002, while visiting his children and standing in a driveway in El Monte, California, Ronald Da Silva, 29, was shot and killed by Luis Humberto Gonzales, a known gang member and illegal from Mexico with a prior criminal record. Gonzales had been deported in 1999 after burglary charges, but re-entered the U.S. illegally. He fled to Mexico immediately after the shooting.
Ultimately, he received an 11-year sentence for manslaughter. Following his release in 2019, he was deported.
Ronald’s mother, Angel Mom Agnes Gibboney, has been an outspoken critic of sanctuary policies and shared the tragic personal cost of what happens when politicians put optics and soundbites ahead of the safety of their citizens.
As California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democrats push a bill that would use taxpayer dollars to fund legal defense for immigrants facing deportation, Gibboney spoke with Fox News Digital and urged voters to “stop this insanity.”
AB 2600, introduced by Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) aims to expand state-funded legal representation for immigrants — including undocumented adults — facing deportation proceedings in immigration court.
Existing law, subject to available funding, provides legal counsel to immigrant youth in California.
The new bill would similarly “Provide legal counsel to every covered individual subject to certain immigration proceedings if that individual is not otherwise being provided counsel, as specified.”
“The bill would define a covered individual to include an individual who is not represented by counsel and who satisfies the indigency requirements established by the administrator and one or more of certain specified criteria relating to the connection of them or their immigration case to the State of California.”
Gibboney told Fox Digital she is “outraged” by the bill.
Per Fox Digital:
“My son was murdered,” she said. “Not one politician has ever contacted me. Not one politician said, ‘I’m so sorry that this previously deported criminal illegal alien shot and killed your son.’ Not one of them.”
Gibboney said that since losing her son in 2002, she sent Newsom “many, many emails,” and “never once did I get a response, not even from his office, much less from Newsom.”
Gibboney further noted the decline of California under Newsom’s leadership.
“We have the highest tax in the entire country, we have the highest cost of living, the most homeless,” she said, adding, “We are number one on everything, and nothing number one in good things, it’s always on the bad things.”
“We taxpayers keep paying more and more each year for taxes just so our government, actually Gavin Newsom, can hand it out and squander our tax dollars and give it to illegal aliens.”
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