This week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons announced the reopening of VOICE — the agency’s sole victims unit office that helps Angel Families track their cases against illegal aliens accused of victimizing their relatives.
“We are announcing the reopening of the VOICE office. The VOICE office began under the first Trump administration … the Biden administration shuttered this office,” Noem said:
There was no reason to do so other than a complete disregard for the tragedy that these families have had to live with. They shut down the only resource that these families had to have a victim’s voice be heard and their families be listened to. Biden prioritized foreign criminals and undermined our national sovereignty and violated our laws and then closed an office that served the victims that were impacted by it. [Emphasis added]
Indeed, Trump opened the VOICE office in 2017 to aid Angel Families. In June 2021, Biden and then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas closed the VOICE office and turned it into a services hotline for illegal aliens seeking visas after reporting crimes.
At the time, Angel Families told Breitbart News the VOICE office had been transformed into a kind of backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens.
Angel Mom Sabine Durden Coulter, whose son Dominic was killed in 2012 by illegal alien Juan Zacarias Tzun — a twice-convicted drunk driver whom sanctuary state California officials failed to deport — said she is “forever grateful” to Trump for defending Angel Families.
“The VOICE office was so important … we had someone to call and somebody to reach out to help us along the way,” Durden Coulter said. “And I’m forever grateful to this office and to Donald Trump, Tom Homan, and Madam Secretary.”
