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.

Republican senators caught up in Jack Smith’s phone-record seizures may soon get their chance to strike back thanks to a provision quietly tucked into a bill the Senate passed Monday night.

The provision was included in a bill that funded the legislative branch and was part of the package passed by the Senate to end the government shutdown. It would allow senators to sue for damages if the government accessed their records without their knowledge. 

“Any senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any federal department or agency,” the bill says. 

The provision applies when their Senate data was “acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed pursuant to a search, seizure, or demand for information without notice being provided.”

Senators could be entitled to up to $500,000 per violation, and they would have five years from the date of learning of the infraction to bring a suit. 

“No officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Federal department or agency shall be entitled to assert any form of absolute or qualified immunity as a defense to liability,” the provision adds. 

If a senator is under criminal investigation and there’s concern about evidence being destroyed or the senator fleeing, officials can delay notification, but only for 60 days.

The provision comes after Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that he had uncovered evidence that the FBI analyzed the metadata of phone calls from several Republicans in Congress, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn (TN), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Ron Johnson (WI), Tommy Tuberville (AL), Dan Sullivan (AK), Josh Hawley (MO) Bill Hagerty (TN), Lindsey Graham (SC), and Rep. Mike Kelly (PA).

The FBI took those actions as part of Smith’s “Arctic Frost” investigation, which led to President Donald Trump being charged in Washington, D.C., over accusations that he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The Biden administration also turned over Trump’s government-issued phone to Smith as part of the investigation and subpoenaed his personal phone records. 

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) told POLITICO that Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) included the provision in the bill. 

“Leader Thune inserted that in the bill to provide real teeth to the prohibition on the Department of Justice targeting senators,” Cruz said.

In a series of 60-40 votes on Monday night, the Senate passed a package of spending bills to end the government shutdown that now heads to the House. The package is expected to end the longest government shutdown in history and passed after enough Democrats crossed the aisle to give the GOP-led Senate the 60 votes needed for approval.