Katie Abraham should still be alive.Her death was preventable.It was the product of political fanaticism, governmental malpractice and moral cowardice.The Biden-Harris administration dismantled enforcement while publicly pretending otherwise.
Illinois officials followed enthusiastically.Americans were instructed not to believe their own eyes.AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT KILLED MY DAUGHTER.KATIE AND ILLINOIS ARE BOTH GETTING JUSTICEFILE: Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S.from Mexico, Oct.
19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)We were told the border was secure.We were told enforcement required new legislation.We were told sanctuary policies enhanced public safety.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF KILLING LOYOLA STUDENT RELEASED UNDER BIDEN, DHS SAYSWe were told mass illegal migration was compassionate and controlled.It was propaganda.Within days of taking office, President Donald Trump demonstrated that existing law already granted the executive branch immense authority to secure the border.
The excuse that nothing could be done without Congress immediately collapsed.TRUMP HAS SEALED THE BORDER.NOW, DEMOCRATS ARE HELL-BENT ON ENDING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENTFor years, the public was deliberately misled into believing the executive branch was powerless to respond.
Politicians, activists and sympathetic commentators repeated the same rehearsed fiction: Congress had to act first.But federal law already provided expansive enforcement authority.The crisis persisted because powerful officials did not want meaningful enforcement.They favored mass release, expanded parole, reduced detention, weakened removals and sanctuary protections that obstructed cooperation with federal authorities.We were told mass illegal migration was compassionate and controlled.The border collapse was not mere incompetence.It was intentional governance.They obscured reality because acknowledging the tru...