Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., offered to promptly meet with an Angel Mom after she said during the second day of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche‘s confirmation hearing that she and other Angel Parents have been “completely ignored” in their push for immigration reform.
“Miss Bos, anxious to meet with you,” Durbin said. “I hope we can do it soon, maybe right after this.”
Jennifer Bos, whose daughter’s body was found in a bleach-filled container in a case in which an illegal immigrant was charged with concealing her death, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Blanche’s nomination, underscoring the Trump administration’s focus on violent crime and immigration enforcement.
Bos is among the Angel Families — relatives of people killed or harmed in crimes involving illegal immigrants — who have pushed lawmakers for stricter immigration enforcement.
Durbin’s offer to meet with Bos, one of his constituents, came as Bos revealed during an exchange with Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., that it was very difficult for Angel Moms to meet with their lawmakers.
“This is the first time I’ve ever spoken with him,” Bos said. “I haven’t spoken with them. He spoke to me.”
“Well, I hope—and I’m sure that—I hope I heard the ranking member yesterday talked about the need for the attorney general to meet with victims, which I support,” Britt said in response. “And I certainly am hopeful that he will, and others, will meet with you.”
Bos went on to say that several pieces of legislation introduced last session have been ignored by Democratic officials.
“And there hasn’t been any way to really get in and talk to anybody, especially those who are opposed to those legislations for whatever reason,” said Bos.
At the end of the hearing, Durbin addressed Bos for a second time, offering to meet with her immediately after the hearing ended.
“I didn’t know it was a hardship for you to make this journey here, testify, from Illinois,” Durbin continued in his remarks to Bos, offering to meet her. “And I don’t want you to have to wait to see me. I want to meet with you now, and we can talk as soon as this meeting adjourns, if it’s okay with you, if it fits in your schedule.”
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Bos told senators during the second day of Blanche’s confirmation hearing about the “unbearable agony” her family endured after her daughter, Megan Bos, was found partially decomposed inside of a garbage can in April 2025, following a 51-day search. The Lake County Coroner’s Office ruled Bos’ cause of death “undetermined,” saying the autopsy could not determine how she died or whether her death was a homicide or drug-related.
Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico charged in the case, was initially released from local custody after an Illinois judge determined the state charges against him — including two counts of concealment of a death, abuse of a corpse and obstruction of justice — did not qualify for pretrial detention under state law.
ICE then arrested Mendoza-Gonzalez in Chicago in July 2025, after federal authorities said he was in the country illegally.
Bos praised Blanche for stepping in after local officials failed to secure justice.
“I’m asking the committee not to wait until another mother is sitting where I am,” Bos said during her opening remarks. “Confirm Todd Blanche. He is a leader who will uphold the law, honor victims, confront dangerous criminal organizations, and fight to give other American families the safety and lasting protection that came too late for mine.”
Mendoza-Gonzalez remains in federal immigration custody after being arrested by ICE in July 2025.
He was arrested on charges related to his immigration status.
He also faces state charges stemming from Bos’ death.
Fox News Digital reached out to Durbin’s office for comment.
