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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. Families who have lost loved ones to crimes committed by immigrants are praising President Donald Trump’s announcement this week that he will create a new office to advocate on their behalf. 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. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)

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Nauricio Estrada, right, and his daughter Vivana Estrada, 2, pay their respects for a makeshift memorial at Guerrero Park for Mesa police Officer Brandon Mendoza, Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Mesa, Ariz. Mendoza died when his vehicle collided on a Tempe, Ariz., freeway ramp after Raul Silva Corona drove 35 miles in the wrong direction on three freeways early Monday morning. (AP Photo)

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A passerby pauses at a makeshift memorial at Guerrero Park for Mesa police Officer Brandon Mendoza, who died when his vehicle collided on a Tempe, Ariz., freeway ramp after Raul Silva Corona drove 35 miles in the wrong direction on three freeways early Monday morning, on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo)

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This undated photo released by the Mesa Police Department shows police officer Brandon Mendoza, 32, who was with the Mesa Police Department. Mendoza who was with the Mesa police department for 13 years was off-duty driving home from work when he was killed by a wrong-way driver Monday, May 12, 2014 in a head-on collision on a Phoenix-area freeway ramp. (AP Photo/Mesa Police Department)