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

I americium a lifelong Illinoisan, and I person met my societal contract. I’ve done everything properly. I’ve been law-abiding and I’ve been productive. And if I didn’t bash these things, I would person been punished. So I’ve met my broadside of the bargain. But I privation my politician to cognize that helium hasn’t met his extremity of the bargain.

Recently, I sent Gov. J.B. Pritzker a missive asking straightforward questions astir the sanctuary policies helium champions—policies that protected an amerciable alien who went connected to termination my daughter. I asked for a effect by January 19, 2026, the one-year day of Katie’s death. To this day, I person received nothing.

The symptom our household has experienced successful the past 12+ months since Katie’s decease is beyond description. I privation I could explicate it to people. The symptom is truthful unbearable astatine times it has made maine astir incapable to function. I americium haunted by the cognition that I volition ne'er locomotion my girl down the aisle, I’ll ne'er clasp her children, I’ll ne'er spot her again. I would springiness thing – thing – and the remainder of my days for conscionable 1 much hr with her.

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My questions to the politician were not ideological questions. They were factual, basic, and rooted successful nationalist safety. Among the 11 questions I asked, 3 basal out:

First, successful national tribunal connected November 23, 2025, it was stated that Julio Cucul-Bol is presently receiving attraction done the Illinois Department of Corrections for an incurable communicable disease, HIV. What aesculapian screening protocols, if any, were successful spot erstwhile helium entered Illinois?

 Katie Abraham was killed erstwhile the conveyance she was traveling successful was rear-ended by an amerciable migrant drunk driver.  (Joe Abraham )

Second, it has since been revealed that Cucul-Bol, a Guatemalan national, was utilizing the alias "Juan Jahaziel Saenz-Suarez," falsely identifying himself arsenic a Mexican national. Federal law-enforcement authorities were alert of this individuality fraud. Why was an idiosyncratic known to beryllium utilizing an alias allowed to stay successful Illinois communities without meaningful verification?

We inquire wherefore this idiosyncratic was successful the country, successful the state, and successful our communities to statesman with. Gov. Pritzker wants the nationalist to halt asking that question. I volition not.

Third, Cucul-Bol possessed an Illinois driver’s licence contempt being illiterate and incapable to work oregon constitute successful immoderate language. How did helium walk the written driver’s examination?

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These are elemental questions. They merit answers. You tin work my full missive here.

Gov. Pritzker was elected to correspond me, my family, and each national of this state. Instead of responding, helium chose silence. And erstwhile pressed by the media, his bureau attempted to deflect work by pointing to a DUI communicative raised by Katie’s mother—as if intoxication someway erases the information that the antheral who killed my girl should ne'er person been present successful the archetypal place.

It does not.

Drunkenness cannot beryllium separated from presence. If an amerciable alien stabs idiosyncratic to decease portion drunk, we bash not excuse the transgression by blaming intoxicant alone. We inquire wherefore that idiosyncratic was successful the country, successful the state, and successful our communities to statesman with. Gov. Pritzker wants the nationalist to halt asking that question. I volition not.

DHS launched 'Operation Midway Blitz' successful grant of Katie Abraham, who was killed successful a drunken-driving, hit-and-run car wreck caused by a transgression amerciable alien successful the sanctuary authorities of Illinois. (Department of Homeland Security)

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On January 19, 2025, my youngest daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed successful Urbana, Illinois. She was lone 20-years-old—brilliant, loving, afloat of promise, and readying a aboriginal that volition present ne'er come. She died instantly erstwhile the car she was riding successful was rear-ended astatine astir 80 miles per hr by a drunk driver, Julio Cucul-Bol, an amerciable alien.

Cucul-Bol was utilizing an alias portion successful Illinois and went undetected nether a strategy unprepared—and unwilling—to enforce migration law. First responders had to pry unfastened the conveyance to scope Katie’s lifeless body.

She was gone earlier we could accidental goodbye.

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The operator fled the country but was aboriginal apprehended successful Texas. He pleaded blameworthy to a 30-year situation condemnation for sidesplitting 2 women, including my daughter, and injuring 3 others. Some accidental this is justice. It is not. When that condemnation is divided among the 5 lives shattered that night, Katie’s beingness is efficaciously valued astatine astir 10 years. And due to the fact that Illinois is simply a sanctuary state, we are forced to interest that adjacent this condemnation whitethorn not beryllium afloat served.

Gov. Pritzker was elected to correspond me, my family, and each national of the authorities of Illinois. Instead of responding to my questions astir my daughter's death, helium chose silence. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Gov. Pritzker likes to accidental migration enforcement is the work of the national government. Yet successful practice, helium nullified national migration instrumentality and replaced it with his own. Without legislative consent oregon meaningful nationalist accountability, helium facilitated the introduction and extortion of hundreds of thousands of amerciable aliens—without capable vetting, without wellness screenings, and without a realistic program for nationalist safety.

Katie was much than a statistic oregon a talking point. She was vibrant, kind, creative, and profoundly loved. She had dreams and plans that were stolen—not lone by 1 man’s recklessness, but by a governmental strategy that valued ideology implicit quality life.

Yes, Julio Cucul-Bol chose to portion and drive. But Governor Pritzker chose policies that allowed an amerciable alien—using an alias, lacking basal verification, and someway licensed to drive—to unrecorded freely successful Illinois. Those choices intersected connected January 19, 2025. When argumentation decisions straight lend to foreseeable harm, work does not vanish. There is humor connected the hands of those who refused to act.

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This past twelvemonth has been the astir brutal of our lives. Every "first" without Katie has reopened the wound:

• Her 21st birthday, March 28
• Family birthdays
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas
• New Year’s

Katie was much than a statistic oregon a talking point. She was vibrant, kind, creative, and profoundly loved. She had dreams and plans that were stolen—not lone by 1 man’s recklessness, but by a governmental strategy that valued ideology implicit quality life.

Gov. Pritzker has ne'er acknowledged Katie’s beingness oregon her death. No call. No letter. No response. Silence.

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Silence is not neutrality. Silence is simply a choice.

For families similar mine, that prime speaks volumes.

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