00:00My name is Jennifer Heiling. I am an angel mom, and I am from a small town in Minnesota.
00:06My son Brady Heiling and his girlfriend, Hallie Helgeson, were tragically killed while celebrating their three-year anniversary at a
00:12concert in Wisconsin.
00:14We got a text that they had made it to their car and were headed home.
00:18This would be the last thing that we had ever heard from them.
00:21On July 20th of 2025, our lives came to a screeching halt.
00:27Brady and Hallie were innocently driving home.
00:30While an illegal immigrant that was driving the wrong way while intoxicated crashed into them.
00:36She was a multiple offender, two times over her legal limit, and had failed to install her interlock device that
00:43would have prevented this whole incident from happening.
00:45And above all else, she's never had a driver's license to be on the road in the first place.
00:51This woman was not a hardened criminal.
00:53She was just a mom.
00:55A mom that was allowed to live in this country completely exempt from consequences for breaking our laws.
01:01Time after time, she was allowed to keep living here above the law without any attempt to change her behavior
01:08and bad decisions.
01:10The ability to seek protection and be shielded by living in a sanctuary city will continue to allow illegal immigrants
01:18to continue to take the innocent lives of Americans.
01:23Now that I've been holding my arms open to what life has to offer me, I couldn't be happier.
01:31That was the last text from my daughter roughly two hours before an unlicensed, uninsured, illegal alien would run a
01:38stop sign, cross three lanes of traffic without looking,
01:41and collide with Carissa slamming her head first into a concrete barrier.
01:47The driver then fled the scene with her boyfriend and aunt, not knowing if my daughter was alive or dead.
01:54My daughter was ambitious.
01:55She was enrolled in esthetician school.
01:58She quickly rose to the top of her class, landed jobs with high-end salons.
02:03She'd smile with confidence as she talked about her dreams of opening a skincare line based on beauty secrets around
02:11the world.
02:13She was very specific that her goal was to make quality skincare affordable for everyone, because everyone deserved to feel
02:20beautiful.
02:22I was so proud of the young woman that Carissa was blossoming into before my eyes.
02:27She would have done it too, because when my daughter put her mind to something, she achieved it.
02:32Now, she's minimally conscious, nonverbal, is wheelchair-bound, and eats through a feeding tube.
02:41She has very little cognitive control over her body.
02:45She communicates discomfort through grunts and moans, and at night, she often calls out to me.
02:50I think she's afraid of the dark, or of being alone, or both.
02:55I don't know for sure, because she can't tell me.
03:00I know the pole socks that monitors her vitals while she's sleeping says her heart rate is high when I
03:06walk in.
03:08Then I touch her arm and sing to her in those wee hours, and her heart rate goes back down,
03:13and she goes to sleep.
03:15And to think, we're the lucky ones.
03:19My little girl survived.
03:21I still get to kiss her.
03:23I still get to hold her hand.
03:26Many angel families don't get that.
03:30That blessing is not lost on me.
03:33For us, there is hope, regardless of what the doctors say,
03:38because my God is big, and he happens to be in the business of miracles.
03:42For us, there is hope, regardless of what the doctors say,
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