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    Mother Wants Tougher Immigration Laws After Son Was Killed By Undocumented Immigrant

    Aug 09, 2018 3 minutes
    Mary Ann Mendoza poses for a photograph while holding a framed picture of herself and her son, Brandon Mendoza, on Thursday, March 2, 2017, at her home in Mesa, Ariz. Mendoza's son, a Mesa police officer, was killed on May 12, 2014, in a head-on collision with a man who authorities say was intoxicated and an immigrant in the country illegally. Both Brandon Mendoza and the other diver were killed in the crash. (Brian Skoloff/AP)

    Mary Ann Mendoza lost her son Brandon in 2014, after his police car was hit by an intoxicated driver who was in the U.S. illegally.

    Mendoza is one of a number of parents who have been meeting with President Trump about how to tighten restrictions on immigrants in the country illegally.

    Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Mendoza (@mamendoza480).

    Interview Highlights

    On the night her son was killed

    “We had just celebrated Mother’s Day on

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