Angel mom pleads with her party to 'grow up' on immigration after newlywed son killed in truck crash

A lifelong Democrat whose newlywed son and daughter-in-law were killed in a crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver is pleading with her party to change course on immigration, saying she is "ashamed" of how her party has handled the issue.

"I was shocked and heartbroken to hear that the man responsible for our son and daughter-in-law's death, the driver of the 18-wheeler that they collided with, that he was a part of Biden's catch-and-release policy," angel mom Elizabeth Carter told "Hannity" Thursday.

Carter's son, William Micah "Billy" Carter, 25, and his wife, Jennifer Lynn Lower Carter, 24, were killed in Nov.

2025, when their Subaru struck a tractor-trailer that had jackknifed across both lanes of U.S.

Highway 20 in Oregon.

The couple had been married for just 16 days.

WATCH: 'LIFELONG DEMOCRAT' ADMITS SHE IS ‘ASHAMED’ OF PARTY AFTER SON KILLED IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRASH The truck's driver, Indian national Rajinder Kumar, was charged following the crash and has pleaded not guilty.

Federal immigration authorities who later took him into custody say Kumar entered the U.S. illegally near Lukeville, Arizona, in Nov.

2022 and was released by the Biden administration, pending immigration proceedings.

He later received work authorization and a CDL issued in California, according to Houston's FOX 26.

"If it weren't for that, our son and daughter-in-law would still be alive," Carter said, pinning blame on both federal and state policies that made the tragedy possible.

The heartbroken mother's comments came after speaking on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, where she pleaded for lawmakers to make a change to immigration policies.

ICE LAUNCHES CDL FRAUD TIPLINE AS DHS HIGHLIGHTS DEADLY CRASHES INVOLVING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "[My son and daughter-in-law] lost the Russian roulette game our government is forcing them to play," she said.

"We allowed 10 million people in under Biden.