In honor of the late Katie Abraham, who was killed at the age of 20 by an illegal immigrant drunk driver, the Department of Homeland Security has nabbed multiple illegal immigrants roaming the sanctuary state after being charged with DUIs as part of its mass deportation campaign, the agency told The Daily Wire.
These illegal immigrants found refuge in the sanctuary state of Illinois for years, and now Homeland Security officials are putting a stop to that. For years, the accused illegal immigrants roamed the state with impunity as local authorities let them go free. But the free-for-all has ended.
Last month, the feds nabbed Benito Hernandez Ibarra, a previously deported criminal from Mexico who was convicted of multiple counts of DUI. Chicago authorities let Ibarra free in 2012, ignoring ICE’s detainer at the time.
Mexican illegal immigrant Javier Castillo Hernandez was also arrested after authorities in Cook County let him off on probation in 2004 after he was driving drunk.
Despite being convicted of aggravated DUI in Chicago nearly a decade ago, Ecuadorian citizen Oscar Sinchi was roaming the streets. The feds arrested him in September.
The Trump administration flooded Illinois with additional ICE officers and Border Patrol agents in September, commencing what they’ve dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz.” The raids were launched to honor Katie Abraham.
“Katie’s death was preventable. She was killed by a man, Julio Cucul Bol, who entered and remained in our country illegally,” Joe Abraham, Katie’s father, said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “He was using multiple aliases, exploiting gaps in an overwhelmed and disorganized immigration system. Illinois’ sanctuary law allowed this monster to roam free.”
“He should have been removed long before he could take my daughter’s life. It would be unjust and unreasonable to separate my family’s loss from the policies that failed us. We did everything right. We worked hard, obeyed the law, paid our taxes and trusted that government would protect us in return. That trust was broken. Our leaders — from the governor’s office on down — have not treated immigration as a matter of public safety or national security,” Abraham said.