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'They’re Going to Do It Anyway' Is Not a Governing Principle

'They’re Going to Do It Anyway' Is Not a Governing Principle

Illinois says licensing illegal immigrants makes our roads safer. My daughter’s death exposed a system of assumptions, failed safeguards, and...

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One Standard for Government Failure

One Standard for Government Failure

Whenever tragedy involves ICE, the response from many politicians, activists, and commentators is immediate. They demand investigations, congressional...

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Biden administration forced a false choice on Americans about immigration

A father whose daughter Katie was killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant argues America doesn't have to choose between compassion and the...

22.07.2026 10

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The Questions Illinois Never Asked

Governor J.B. Pritzker has repeatedly argued that when tragedy exposes possible failures in government, leaders have a duty to ask difficult...

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If the Evidence Is Settled, Show Us the Data

During a recent House hearing, several members of Congress stated as fact that illegal immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born...

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Who Will Be Held Accountable for the Border Policies of 2021–2025?

Katie Abraham should have graduated from Ohio University this year. Instead, she is buried. She was visiting friends in Urbana, Illinois, when she was...

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There Is No 'But' After 'I'm Sorry'

I recently had the privilege of testifying before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement alongside...

07.07.2026 10

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The Hierarchy of Compassion: Who Counts?

Pete Buttigieg and his family should never have endured a malicious false report that brought police and Child Protective Services to their home,...

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Famed economists warned us about big government power. Katie paid the ultimate price

A father examines how concentrated power and political policies failed his daughter Katie, killed by an intoxicated driver in Urbana, Illinois.

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If Citizens Lose Faith in Elections, Accountability Dies

Democracy depends on a simple bargain: citizens elect leaders, leaders make decisions, and voters can remove them when those decisions fail. But what...

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Who Will Be Held Accountable for the Border Policies of the Biden Years?

Katie Abraham should have graduated from Ohio University this year.  Instead, she is buried.  She was visiting friends in Urbana, Illinois, when she...

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Open borders were insane, but politicians didn’t care. Families like mine paid the price

Katie Abraham's father argues her death was preventable, blaming Biden-Harris border policies and Illinois sanctuary protections that failed.

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When Leadership Loses Its Moral Compass

The Apostle Paul once wrote that leadership requires “a good conscience.” Whether one approaches that idea through faith, philosophy, or simple...

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The Collapse Was Not an Accident

Katie Abraham should still be alive. Instead, my youngest daughter was killed because government systems failed to stop dangers they were supposed to...

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After losing my daughter, I learned where the immigration crisis really begins

A grieving father connects his daughter Katie's death to reckless immigration policies, examining how low-skill migration strains American...

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Resistance Is Not Leadership

When political movements begin treating the President of the United States not as a constitutional office occupied by a political opponent, but as an...

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The reckless policies of our leaders cost my daughter her life and legacy

A reflection on how reckless immigration policies sacrifice innocent lives like Katie's for ideological vanity disguised as compassion and morality.

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I lost my daughter to sanctuary policies. My senators are too cowardly to talk to me

After losing his daughter Katie in a crash involving a previously deported driver, an Illinois father calls on leaders to confront sanctuary policies.

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They Wouldn’t Even Say My Daughter's Name

There are moments in life when the distance between rhetoric and reality becomes unbearable. March 25th, in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on...

29.03.2026 20

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My Daughter Is Gone. Politicians Still Call This Moral.

My daughter Katie was killed by a man who should never have been here. On January 19, 2025, an illegal immigrant drunk driver slammed into the car she...

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My daughter was killed, and I warned sanctuary city policies would cost lives again

A grieving parent who lost his daughter warns that Illinois sanctuary city policies keep costing lives after an 18-year-old college student was killed...

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Angel Families had a day of remembrance we never should have needed

The National Angel Family Day Proclamation was established to honor the thousands of Angel Families in the US who have lost loved ones to dangerous...

05.03.2026 20

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Gov Pritzker ignored my letter — after his sanctuary policies killed my daughter

Illinois father demands answers about sanctuary policies in his state that protected his daughter Katie Abraham's killer, receives nothing but...

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An illegal immigrant killed my daughter — leftists march for Renee, not for Katie

Joe Abraham's daughter Katie was killed by illegal alien, and he contrasts the left's silence about her death with their outrage over recent ICE...

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Pro-worker and pro-freedom: A road map for red states

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Washington Examiner

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The dangers of Trump’s venture socialism

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Washington Examiner

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Sanctuary policies failed my daughter — and my state

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Washington Examiner

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An illegal immigrant killed my daughter. Katie and Illinois are both getting justice

Joe Abraham's daughter Katie was killed by an illegal alien drunken driver, so the Department of Homeland Security's "Operation Midway Blitz" is...

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JOE ABRAHAM: Sanctuary Policies Killed My Daughter. It’s Time To End This Nightmare

My daughter Katie was just 20 years old. A junior at Ohio University. Bright, beautiful, and full of life. She had a spark you cannot teach and a...

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