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In September, when the Department of Homeland Security launched its “Operation Midway Blitz“Immigration action in chicago area, officer Said The push was in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old Illinois resident who was killed in a car crash involving an unidentified immigrant earlier in the year.
Now Abraham’s mother is speaking out against the Trump administration, disliking it. Operation Which was launched in the name of his daughter.
Denise Lawrence said, “I have never spoken out since this started, but as Katie’s mother, I can no longer remain silent.” wrote In Chicago Tribune On Tuesday. “The Department of Homeland Security said this Immigration enforcement operations in Chicago Is named in honor of Katie. But Katie wouldn’t want that.”
Lawrence said it was “unbearable” to see Abraham’s name become a “political pawn”, noting that her daughter was not a political person and felt loved and safe in Chicago, the city of the Trump administration. painted as a war zone Emergency federal intervention is required.
“Katie would not want to be associated with an operation that involves children Watch your parents get detained “She will not support scaring children in their neighborhoods or in their apartment buildings by the use of military efforts.”
When contacted for comment, the Department of Homeland Security attached a statement from Joe Abraham, the father of the late 20-year-old.
“DHS launched Operation Midway Blitz in honor of my daughter, Katie Abraham, who was killed in Illinois by a criminal illegal alien drunk driver who should never have been in our country,” the statement said.
“Sanctuary policies helped kill Katie,” Abraham said. “Katie was as kind as she was, she wouldn’t sacrifice other people’s lives just to bring in illegals. I gave permission for Operation Midway Blitz to be held in Katie’s honor, and I stand by it.”
Before Operation Midway Blitz, Joe Abraham and Katie Abraham’s stepmother appeared in a video for Homeland Security and at the White House with Donald Trump.
“Katie received no due process,” the father said in the August DHS video clip, a reference to criticisms of the Trump administration. Arresting and summarily deporting immigrants Without any due process. “I know they like to use some words like disappeared, taken, snatched, but let me tell you, Katie was disappeared, taken, snatched, and got no due process. The difference here is that Katie was gone from us forever.”
Katie Abraham and a friend were killed in a hit-and-run car crash in Urbana in January by a drunken man who police say was an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant.
As part of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration has dispatched federal immigration officers to the Chicago area, about 150 miles from Urbana, in an effort the White House has tried to bolster. Send National Guard troops to the city,
The results of the operation have been revealed More than 1,500 arrests across the region since it began in September.
The effort has also faced fierce opposition and condemnation from local officials, and ICE agents have been accused of abuses, including one Commando style raid on an apartment building Where observers claim agents broke down doors and nearly naked children were bound with zip ties, separated from their parents and detained for hours.
Earlier this month a federal judge Prevented immigration officers from using riot control weapons Against peaceful protesters and journalists.
Both the first and second Trump administrations have shared stories of what they called “”.angel family“Those who lost loved ones to crimes related to undocumented immigration, in their efforts to justify their immigration preferences.