An illegal immigrant killed my daughter. Katie and Illinois are both getting justice

When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reached retired to inquire if they could grant my girl Katie through "Operation Midway Blitz," I had questions.  I couldn’t hold to thing successful my daughter’s sanction show unseen. But aft speaking with DHS and knowing the goals of this cognition — to enforce the laws that are expected to support families similar excavation and to amplify Katie’s tragic communicative — I was convinced that her decease would not beryllium successful vain.  

Katie was violently killed on Jan. 19, 2025, successful a mode nary genitor should ever person to imagine. She was a rider successful a car stopped astatine a reddish airy erstwhile an amerciable alien, driving drunk astatine astir 80 miles per hour, slammed into the backmost of their vehicle. The driver, Julio Cucul-Bol, a Guatemalan nationalist successful the state illegally and utilizing mendacious Mexican identification, stole from america a bright, loving young pistillate with her full beingness up of her.  

Adding to the fearfulness of that night, aft violently destroying the car and the lives wrong it, he fled the country — without a 2nd thought to the radical helium had conscionable maimed and killed. He didn’t effort to render aid. He didn’t telephone for help. He ran, selfishly and cowardly, leaving others to look the devastation helium caused.   

That’s the existent measurement of the antheral who should ne'er person been successful our state to statesman with.

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DHS launched 'Operation Midway Blitz' successful grant of Katie Abraham, who was killed successful a drunken-driving, hit-and-run car wreck caused by a transgression amerciable alien successful sanctuary Illinois. (Department of Homeland Security)

It seems painfully simple: if this antheral had not been allowed into our country against national law, helium would not person been connected that road, and my girl would beryllium live today. If Illinois had existent enactment consenting to prioritize nationalist information implicit authorities — and if the authorities hadn’t doubled down connected the sanctuary policies that shielded this coward — Katie mightiness inactive beryllium with us.  

For months, I’ve been saying that it’s acold easier to forestall chaos connected the beforehand extremity than to cleanable up tragedies similar excavation connected the backmost end. An ounce of prevention ever beats a lb of cure. I’ve consistently challenged Illinois politicians to explicate however they had planned to equilibrium nationalist information with their open-border and sanctuary policies. The soundlessness has been deafening.  

And I’ve asked repeatedly: what controls oregon audit processes were ever enactment successful place once Illinois politicians opened the backmost doorway to anyone and everyone? Who was making definite our communities were safe? Who was tracking who came in, wherever they were going, oregon however they were being supported?

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Instead of acting with compassion oregon foresight, Illinois leaders encouraged and even incentivized amerciable immigration, sending a unsafe connection that anyone could travel present without consequence. That’s not compassion — that’s cruelty. It shows nary respect for the information of residents, and nary empathy for the struggles, abuse, and exploitation suffered by the precise radical making that perilous journey.  

After Katie’s death, I met with dozens of DHS and ICE agents and enactment staff in Chicago. I besides sat down with Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, and we spoke astatine magnitude astir however open-border policies are tearing isolated our communities. The opposition couldn’t person been much stark. I was struck by their professionalism, compassion and dedication. These men and women are not the villains that immoderate politicians and activists marque them retired to be. They are Americans trying to bash their jobs — to reconstruct bid and equilibrium aft years of unsafe neglect. Each of the dozens of men and women I met were competent, professional, and profoundly committed to keeping our communities safer.  

I can’t assistance but wonderment if immoderate of ICE’s critics person ever taken the clip to beryllium crossed from 1 of these agents oregon unit members. If they did, I judge they’d spot what I saw: dedicated Americans moving tirelessly to marque our communities safer.

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Illinois politicians person shown nary specified compassion. They ignored Katie’s communicative due to the fact that acknowledging it would mean admitting the failures of their policies. It appears their soundlessness is not astir grief oregon guilt — it’s astir governmental self-preservation. Maintaining inflated census numbers and legislature seats seems to substance much than protecting guiltless lives.  

Instead of acting with compassion oregon foresight, Illinois leaders encouraged and even incentivized amerciable immigration, sending a unsafe connection that anyone could travel present without consequence. 

Katie mislaid her beingness to their cynical crippled of Russian roulette. And with her, we mislaid everything she mightiness person go — her future, her accidental to marry, to person children. I volition ne'er locomotion her down the aisle. I volition ne'er clasp her children. Those are the existent consequences of failed leadership.

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Our existent Illinois politicians should slink distant successful shame, ne'er to clasp immoderate nationalist bureau ever again.  

That’s wherefore I support "Operation Midway Blitz." Because it’s clip to bring accountability backmost to our migration system. It’s clip to enactment the information of Americans up of governmental games. And it’s clip to grant Katie — not conscionable with words, but with action.