President Donald Trump ended a week of criticism of his administration's now-reversed policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. border Friday with another event highlighting the stories of Americans whose family members had been killed by undocumented immigrants.

The president blasted the news media, Democrats and other critics at the event, accusing them of ignoring the plight of "the American victims of illegal immigration," while the victims' families, called Angel Families, stood behind him holding poster-sized photos of their deceased relative.

"You know you hear the other side, you never hear this side. You don't know what's going on," Trump said. "These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones. The word permanently being the word that you have to think about. Permanently."

"They're not separated for a day or two days, they are permanently separated. Because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. These are the families the media ignores," he said.