Calling Katie’s death “just a DUI” is more than technically convenient. It is an act of absolution.

A DUI happens every day. The driver made a terrible decision. The government had nothing to do with it. What could anyone have done?

Calling it a DUI allows Illinois to absolve itself of everything that came before the crash. It cuts off responsibility before anyone asks the harder questions:

Why was the previously deported immigrant who killed Katie allowed to be in this country? How was he able to return after deportation under a false identity? How did he obtain an Illinois driver’s license? What systems failed? Who knew? Who should have known? And who accepted the risks created by those failures?

The label “DUI” identifies the final act. It does not absolve everyone whose decisions and policies preceded it.

The driver has responsibility for the crash. Government has responsibility for the systems that made the circumstances possible.

Those are not mutually exclusive.

When a bridge collapses, engineers don’t point to the piece that broke and say, “Case closed.” They investigate why it failed, whether warnings were missed, and whether decisions increased the risk.

Katie’s death deserves the same scrutiny.

And that brings us directly to immigration policy.

The Biden-Harris administration created an open border in practice.

The border was overwhelmed. Millions entered illegally. Enforcement was weakened. People were released into the country in numbers the government could not realistically track, detain and remove.

The administration knew........

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