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Illinois father’s grieving daughter loses blame Governor JB Pritzker’s Immigration policy says this has resulted in devastating consequences.
“My daughter was taken away. We separated and I will never see her again,” Joe Abraham said on Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
“She is dead; I have a desire for life.”
Katie Abraham and a friend were waiting at a ceasefire in January 2025, and police said their car was knocked down at high speed by an illegal Guatemalan man. Authorities say he was suspected of driving while drunk. Katie died on the scene, while her friend later died in a nearby hospital.
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Now, Abraham and his family are asking the country’s leaders to take tougher actions. He criticized Pritzker’s silence on the case, calling it “deafening.”
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson oppose President Trump’s plan to send the National Guard in Chicago and expand ICE enforcement. (Getty Images; Scott Olsen)
In response, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it is exacerbating arrests for criminal immigrants in Illinois. Federal officials said the raids were carried out in Katie’s memory.
“Every day, men and women on the ice and other federal partners are in Chicago, we remember Katie by going out and bringing these criminal foreigners to the streets,” said Todd Lyons, an agency ice company, on Fox & Friends.
In a statement about X, the Department of Homeland Security contacted it Illinois action Under the state’s asylum policy, it is believed that they allow criminal immigrants to roam the streets.
Pritzker denied these claims, accusing federal authorities of using the action to instill fear in the community rather than reducing crime. Pritzker wrote on X:
“The Trump administration is not taking steps to work with us, but focuses on scaring the imlinoisians.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson A similar argument was proposedsaid the city received “no notice Enhanced immigration action The Trump administration “he remains opposed to ICE’s actions on due process issues.
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He also raised concerns about the history of ICE, saying the agency mistakenly detained U.S. citizens in the past and violated their rights.
Abraham rejected these arguments, saying that through the proper immigration system, immigrants who killed their daughter could have been filtered out and that his children might still be alive.
Katie Abraham was killed in January when an illegal Guatemalan man in the United States allegedly drove under the influence of drunk driving and hit her car at high speed. (Division of Homeland Security)
Although state and federal leaders continue to fight for immigration policy, Lyon said the Ice remains committed to operations in Chicago and across the country.
“We arrested criminal foreigners there, known suspected terrorists and gang members who destroyed our community,” Lyons said.
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“The iced men and women are [going to] Stay in Chicago, we [going to] Stay in all major cities in the United States to ensure we eliminate this public safety threat from our communities. ”
