21岁的爱荷华州本地人莎拉·鲁特（Sarah Root）在内布拉斯加州毕业数小时后，被一名血液酒精含量超过法定限制三倍的醉酒司机杀害。
据美国国土安全部（DHS）称，肇事男子埃斯温·梅希亚（Eswin Mejia）在2016年1月案发时非法居留美国境内。他于次月被捕并获保释后潜逃出境。
[特朗普敦促国土安全部和移民局公开逮捕行动，称打击非法移民“挽救了许多无辜生命”]
[image_1] 唐纳德·特朗普总统于2025年3月4日在美国国会大厦发表国情咨文联合演讲。（肯特·西村/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社）
当时的候选人特朗普曾批评奥巴马政府对该案件的处理方式。
特朗普政府后来在洪都拉斯追捕到梅希亚，并于2025年3月将其引渡回美国。他被判处20多年监禁。
由于爱荷华州共和党众议员兰迪·费恩斯特拉（Randy Feenstra）的邀请，莎拉·鲁特的父亲和兄弟将现场出席特朗普周二晚间向国会发表的黄金时段演讲。
[image_2] 埃斯温·梅希亚在从洪都拉斯被引渡到美国后被拘留，以面对2016年醉酒驾车致爱荷华州女子莎拉·鲁特死亡的指控。（国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆）
“我认为这传递的信息是，在特朗普总统任下，我们会找到你。我的意思是，如果你是这个州或这个国家的非法罪犯，我们会找到你，你将被驱逐出境或受到起诉。我认为这一信息清晰明确。”费恩斯特拉告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
[独家：特朗普第二任期内根据莱肯·莱利法案逮捕17,500名非法移民]
他表示，莎拉·鲁特的父亲斯科特·鲁特（Scott Root）去年在特朗普签署《莱肯·莱利法案》时曾出席白宫仪式。
这项反非法移民法案还包含一项以莎拉·鲁特命名的修正案，要求移民和海关执法局（ICE）拘留被控严重伤害或杀害他人的非法移民。
[image_3] 兰迪·费恩斯特拉众议员于2025年10月11日在得梅因的爱荷华州博览会场发表讲话。（科迪·斯坎兰/得梅因纪事报/Imagn）
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“斯科特和我一起在白宫见证了法案签署。他因此认识了特朗普总统，现在能出席国情咨文演讲——这真的非常重要。”费恩斯特拉说。
特朗普对非法移民的打击行动一直是其政府的主要焦点，此前他曾批评奥巴马和拜登两位前总统对该问题的处理方式。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德（Elizabeth Elkind）是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，负责众议院报道。此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻发表过数字署名文章。
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FIRST ON FOX: The father and brother of a young woman killed by an illegal immigrant will be in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night watching President Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union address, after his administration helped track down the man who ended the woman’s life.
Sarah Root, a 21-year-old Iowa native, was killed in Nebraska hours after she graduated from Bellevue University by a drunk driver whose blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit.
The man, Eswin Mejia, was in the U.S. illegally at the time of the incident in January 2016. He was arrested and released on bond the following month and fled the country, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
[TRUMP URGES DHS, ICE TO PUBLICIZE ARRESTS, SAYS CRACKDOWN IS ‘SAVING MANY INNOCENT LIVES’]
[image_1] President Donald Trump delivers his joint address to Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025.(Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Then-candidate Trump was critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the case.
The Trump administration later tracked Mejia down in Honduras and extradited him to the U.S. in March 2025. He was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
Sarah Root’s father and brother will attend in-person as Trump delivers his primetime address to Congress on Tuesday evening, thanks to an invitation from Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa.
[image_2] Eswin Mejia sits in custody after being extradited from Honduras to the United States to face charges in the 2016 drunken-driving death of Iowa woman Sarah Root.(Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem)
“I think that the message it sends is that, under President Trump, that we will find you. I mean, if you’re an illegal criminal in this state or in this country, we will find you, and you will get deported, or you will be prosecuted. I think that is the message loud and clear,” Feenstra told Fox News Digital.
[EXCLUSIVE: 17,500 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED UNDER LAKEN RILEY ACT IN TRUMP’S SECOND TERM]
He said Sarah Root’s father, Scott Root, was present at the White House when Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law last year.
The anti-illegal immigrant bill also included an amendment named after Sarah Root that would require Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants charged with seriously injuring or killing someone.
[image_3] Rep. Randy Feenstra speaks at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on Oct. 11, 2025.(Cody Scanlan/The Des Moines Register/Imagn)
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“Scott was at the White House with me during the signing of the bill. And he got to know President Trump, so now to be there at the State of the Union — that is really, really a big deal,” Feenstra said.
Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has been a primary focus of his administration, after his criticism of how the issue was handled by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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