My daughter, Katie Abraham, was 20 years old when she was killed in a drunk-driving hit-and-run crash in Urbana, Illinois.
The man who killed her was in the country illegally. He fled the scene, leaving behind devastated families and futures that will never be realized.
Katie should still be here.
As her father, I believe Illinois' sanctuary policies, Governor
@GovPritzker's "welcoming" approach to immigration, and a lack of meaningful enforcement created the conditions that allowed this preventable tragedy to happen.
What makes this especially difficult to reconcile is that, here in Illinois, sweeping COVID restrictions were accepted with little hesitation because they were framed as necessary to save lives.
Extraordinary measures were justified by a single principle: preventing preventable deaths.
Yet when concerns are raised about border security, immigration enforcement, fentanyl, trafficking, and public safety, that same urgency disappears.
This piece examines that contradiction:
Why are some preventable losses treated as urgent moral imperatives while others are minimized, reframed, or ignored?
For my family, this debate isn't political. It's personal.
Read Here:
open.substack.com/pub/angeld…