Praying for the best possible outcome for the Ret. Staff Sergeant Wilmer Trujillo and his family. @CBSNews my daughter Katie is in the grave. The illegal immigrant who killed her received more consideration from Illinois politicians than Katie ever did. @GovPritzker's policies were designed to accommodate, encourage, and protect people here illegally. Katie wasn't protected. She was the citizen. She was the victim. She was my daughter. The state looked out for him. Nobody looked out for Katie. So, my heart is shattered into pieces that no longer fit back together. So when can I expect @CBSNews to tell Katie's story? Or is your compassion reserved for victims who serve your party's narrative. While daughters like Katie are treated as inconvenient reminders of the consequences you spent years refusing to confront? Katie was killed. The politicians got cover. The public got propaganda disguised as journalism.

What's your point, @CBSNews? Where were you during the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas years? .@TheJusticeDept must investigate @AliMayorkas While the media cheered open-border policies and sanctuary jurisdictions, my daughter Katie was killed by an illegal immigrant with a troubling background and serious health issues who was granted special privileges in Illinois and protected by @GovPritzker instead of being properly vetted. So, @CBSNews If you had scrutinized those policies with the same energy you're showing now, Katie might still be alive today. You didn't. The Biden administration spent years enticing, encouraging, and normalizing illegal immigration. Now the consequences are impossible to ignore. You can't have it both ways. You don't get to cheer the policies when they're implemented and suddenly discover concern when the results become politically inconvenient. From Katie's perspective, that realization came too late. @GovPritzker say her name. Katie.

.@GovPritzker every Illinoisan should be your people. Clearly, Katie was not. You never stop speaking for the people you choose to champion. You never speak about Katie. Is it because speaking about Katie would force you to confront the consequences of the policies that failed her? @GovPritzker, acknowledge Katie, how she lived and how she died!

My daughter Katie's lifeless body was pulled from the wreckage caused by an illegal immigrant with a terrible background and serious health issues. Yet by Illinois' standards, he wasn't considered among the "worst of the worst." He went on to kill two young women. Katie got a grave. Our family got a life sentence. At the same time, politicians continue to use hyperbolic rhetoric that portrays every enforcement action as an attack and every concern about illegal immigration as illegitimate. That kind of language is reckless. And once people are taught to view law enforcement, immigration officers, and political opponents as enemies rather than fellow citizens, the consequences rarely stay confined to a single issue. Selective compassion is no compassion at all. There must be room to care about human dignity, public safety, and the victims of failed policies. Families like mine live with the consequences while politicians rarely do.

This media personality is either confused, uninformed, or just plain dishonest. Meanwhile my baby girl Katie is dead at the hands of an illegal immigrant with a horrific background. Supported and protected by @govpritzker. Any words for Katie and others like her? The problem is the constant conflation of legal immigration with illegal immigration. America was built in large part by generations of legal immigrants, such as my parents; who followed the rules, underwent scrutiny, embraced the responsibilities of citizenship, assimilated into American society, and contributed to their communities. That history deserves respect. What many people object to is not legal immigration, but policies that encourage or reward unlawful entry, weaken enforcement, and create incentives for people to bypass established immigration laws. When politicians blur that distinction, they avoid debating the actual policy choices and their consequences. It is entirely possible to support legal immigration while opposing policies that create lawlessness, undermine accountability, or encourage migration for reasons distorted by political promises and government benefits. Those are different issues, and pretending they are the same only shuts down honest discussion. The immigrants who helped build America generally came to become Americans, not simply to reside here. They built families, businesses, communities, and a shared national identity. Conflating that legacy with policies that disregard immigration laws does a disservice to both the country and the generations of immigrants who followed the rules and successfully assimilated.

.@Giannoulias is as clueless about consequences as .@GovPritzker, .@SenatorDurbin, and .@SenDuckworth. Your office gave a driver's license to an illegal immigrant with a horrific background. He later drove intoxicated and killed two women, including my daughter Katie. Katie will never attend another sporting event, swim again, or live the future she deserved. The policies you supported helped create the environment that put Katie in her grave. Any words for Katie @giannoulias or @GovPritzker? Or is accountability something you expect only from others?

Speaking of the DOJ... @TheJusticeDept must investigate @GovPritzker, @Giannoulias, and the Illinois supermajority for the reckless policies that helped create the conditions that put Katie in a grave and harmed other innocent victims. Afterward, they refused to acknowledge the consequences and turned their backs on the families left behind. @govpritzker say her name. Katie.

Katie's dead because of an illegal immigrant your policies funded and protected. That's who you protect. Katie and the other victims your reckless policies created deserved protection too. Yet you never acknowledge the lives shattered by the consequences of those policies or accept responsibility for the risks they created. Spare us the lectures about protecting children. @GovPritzker say her name. Katie.

My daughter's, Katie, illegal immigrant killer wasn't considered a violent criminal, until he killed two young women. So @ABC, what's your point? For the families left behind, that distinction means nothing after the fact. Your one-sided stories are exhausting. But anything to protect your team and your narrative, right? The Katies of the world be damned.

.@GovPritzker your lawlessness helped cost my daughter her life....never inward, only outward. Maybe it's best for Illinois that you focus on Trump and not Illinois...

The white guilt machine extends seamlessly into immigration. The argument is that wealthy Western nations built their prosperity on colonialism, etc., and so they owe a "debt" to the nations they once exploited. This "debt" is paid, in part, by accepting immigrants from those nations. But this "debt" has no defined size and no terms of when or how forgiveness will be achieved. No number of arrivals, no policy, no level of generosity ever settles the account, because the obligation is not tied to a specific act. It is tied to identity. You do not owe because of what you did. You owe because of what you are. However, an obligation with no end to it is not truly a "debt." It is a permanent claim assigned to the oppressor side. You can hear that logic openly where Britain’s leadership treats migration as a moral bill that can never be marked “paid in full.” This is the "duty" that Starmer fights to continue.

It's amazing that this is who ends up running Illinois. No ideas. No wisdom. No leadership. Zero accountability. Just one solution for every problem: higher taxes. And hearing complaints about "dark money" from someone who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of inherited wealth influencing elections is quite a spectacle.

Only in Illinois can failure become a qualification for higher office. @Giannoulias helped provide a driver's license to an illegal immigrant with a troubling background who later drove intoxicated and killed two young women, including my 20-year-old daughter Katie. @SecDuffy and @TheJusticeDept must investigate Illinois' DL and CDL practices. Illinois families deserve accountability.

This guy Joabe was just a guy running the streets of Chicago & making videos about it. Then one day DHS told him that his visa wasn’t going to be renewed, he even made a video about having to leave the U.S. He figured things out, I guess & since then he’s been a spokesperson for the Democratic Party. Weird how that happens.

Yes, @GovKathyHochul, apparently only pregnant women, citizens and children are being detained (eye roll here). My daughter Katie was killed by an illegal immigrant with a troubling background and serious infectious health issues. He would not have been considered the "worst of the worst" by the standards many politicians use, yet he went on to kill two young women, one of them my 20 year old daughter. That's the flaw in this debate. Public safety cannot depend on identifying only the "worst of the worst" after innocent people have already paid the price. And this kind of hyperbolic rhetoric is irresponsible, dangerous, and serves only to shut down legitimate discussion about the real-world consequences of these policies. Do you and @GovPritzker attend the same messaging class? In congress you also ignored and failed to acknowledge my daughter tragic death, so much for compassion.

Illinois has a growing accountability problem. .@GovPritzker and his supermajority take credit for the few outcomes they like, but refuse responsibility for the many consequences of the policies they champion. My daughter Katie is in the grave after years of policies marketed as compassionate and humane. But compassion is not measured by intentions, it is measured by outcomes. When leaders ignore the damage their policies cause, compassion becomes a slogan rather than a principle. Yet not a word of acknowledgment from the politicians who supported them. This essay examines what happens when ideology replaces accountability—and why families are often left paying the price. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/angeld…

The daily script: “Katie was killed by an illegal immigrant...but we are losing rights...” I’ve heard this "losing rights" argument for decades, and somehow it always seems to operate in only one direction. Katie lost all of her rights. Not just the night she was killed, but in the years beforehand when reckless border and sanctuary policies ignored foreseeable risks and dismissed legitimate concerns. The same voices that supported sweeping COVID restrictions in the name of saving lives now minimize the lives lost because of these policies. One cause was politically convenient and aligned with their ideological ideals. The other is politically inconvenient, so the victims are ignored while the issue is reduced to a partisan cudgel. That isn't compassion. It isn't leadership. It isn't wisdom. It isn't sound public policy. That is partisan politics, not principle. That is no way to run a nation. And those who claim the moral high ground should be the first to reject this double standard, not the first to embrace it. Judge policies by outcomes, not intentions. Katie got a grave. Her killer got a plea deal, a release date, and a second chance.

Does CNN really mean to argue that immigration violations are merely suggestions? The blind loyalty to party is astonishing. For years, Americans were told these policies were all upside and anyone who raised concerns was a bigot or extremist. We were lied to. Every policy has trade-offs. Every decision has consequences. My daughter Katie was killed by an intoxicated illegal immigrant. Katie got a grave. We got a life sentence. So, CNN and Abby Philips, please spare us the selective compassion. Families like mine live with the consequences of these policies every day.

.@GovPritzker lack of self-awareness is astounding. Not to mention my daughter Katie, only 20 years old, was killed by an intoxicated illegal immigrant protected by @GovPritzker due to the environment his policies helped create here in Illinois. Yet he refuses to acknowledge the consequences or accept responsibility. He knows how to raise taxes. He knows how to blame others. What he still hasn't learned is accountability. More than ever, Illinois deserves leadership. Right now, we don't have it.

40 years in Congress!! Now Senator Durbin wants to "fix" Social Security? The lack of self-awareness is staggering. What's even more telling is that he couldn't find a moment of compassion for my daughter Katie, a lifelong Illinois resident killed by an intoxicated illegal immigrant. Katie is in a grave, helped by your reckless and irresponsible policies with zero guardrails. And when given the chance to acknowledge her story, he chose silence. So disgusting. Such a fraud. Four decades in Washington. What have you actually been doing other than more harm than good? Endless loyalty to party and ideology. Zero accountability.