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Re: DHS launched an immigration operation in Chicago in honor of 20-year-old Katie Abraham. Here's what we know about her death

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On 9/15/2025 2:13 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/us/katie-abraham-chicago-immigration-
> crackdown
> 
> Katie Abraham and Chloe Polzin were hunting for a late-night snack with
> three other friends on a frigid night in Urbana, Illinois.
> 
> The end of winter break was nearing for the two university students, who
> had traveled to Urbana to visit other water polo players at the University
> of Illinois, Abraham’s father told CNN.
> 
> It was nearly 2 a.m. on January 19 when 20-year-old Abraham and 21-year-
> old Polzin, along with their friends, stopped at a red light. Suddenly, an
> SUV came up quickly behind them, smashing into the car and injuring all
> five people inside, according to Urbana Police.
> 
> The two girls were killed in a drunken-driving hit-and-run collision, the
> Department of Homeland Security said, by a man in the United States
> illegally who fled the scene of the crime.
> 
> Abraham was pronounced dead at the hospital soon after the accident,
> police said. Polzin died the next day, according to her obituary.
> 
> Almost eight months after Abraham’s death, the Department of Homeland
> Security announced it was launching its latest immigration enforcement
> action in Illinois, “Operation Midway Blitz,” in her honor, drawing the
> 20-year-old’s name into national politics as an example of a broken
> immigration system amid a larger crackdown in cities across the US.
> 
> Her father, Joe Abraham, told CNN the federal government failed
> “miserably” in protecting his daughter and that state politicians ignored
> her death, and by extension, “let it happen.”
> 
> What we know about the wreck
> Temperatures had dropped as low as 2 degrees the night Abraham died, and
> never broke above freezing that day.
> 
> Abraham and Polzin were childhood friends from their time at the East Side
> Water Polo Club in the Chicago suburbs.
> 
> The two girls, along with three other friends, were sitting at a red light
> just 1.5 miles north of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign when a
> red Mitsubishi Outlander crashed into the back of their car, police said.
> 
> All five were taken to the hospital, according to police. While two were
> released with minor injuries and another made a recovery, Abraham was
> declared dead at the hospital. Polzin was declared brain dead the next
> day, according to her obituary.
> 
> The Polzin family did not respond to CNN’s attempts to speak with them for
> this story.
> 
> Police said the driver fled the scene on foot. Three days later, the US
> Marshals Service found him in Texas, riding a bus headed to Mexico.
> 
> The death of the youngest daughter
> Joe Abraham’s youngest daughter loved water.
> 
> “I think she liked the water better than land,” her father said.
> 
> She played water polo for a travel team throughout high school and for a
> club team in college. She swam and did diving from a young age, he said.
> 
> Abraham, who was from Glenview, Illinois, was going into her third year at
> Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, according to her father. She wasn’t
> certain yet, but he thinks she was leaning toward majoring in marketing.
> They intended to talk about it the next time she was home.
> 
> “She kind of had a plan of where she was going to go, and obviously that
> didn’t happen,” he said.
> 
> Joe Abraham said his daughter “loved life, and she knew how to enjoy it,
> and get the best out of it.”
> 
> He called her “such a special person,” who was genuine and authentic. She
> made everyone feel seen and had a terrific wit and a great sense of humor,
> he added.
> 
> She loved all kinds of music, and Joe Abraham recalled sitting together
> and listening to music from his generation.
> 
> She had an “eclectic group of friends,” and two siblings with whom she was
> close.
> 
> “She was just such a good sister to her older sister and older brother,”
> her father said. “It’s a sad, sad situation.”
> 
> What we know about the SUV driver
> US Marshals tracked down the SUV driver three days after he fled the scene
> of the crime on an “El Expreso” bus – “the express” – heading to
> Matamoros, Mexico.
> 
> The man told police he was a 27-year-old Mexican named Juan Jahaziel
> Saenz-Suarez the morning he was captured. But a day later, he divulged to
> police that his identity was a lie – he was 29, from Guatemala. His name
> was actually Julio Cucul-Bol.
> 
> He was not legally in the United States and had used forged documents to
> hide his identity, police said.
> 
> Police filed new charges against Cucul-Bol for leaving the scene of a
> personal injury crash resulting in death, aggravated driving under the
> influence resulting in death and reckless homicide.
> 
> Federal prosecutors charged Cucul-Bol in May with possessing a false
> permanent resident card, possessing a false Social Security card, false
> use of a passport, and making a false statement on a bank application,
> according to the Department of Justice.
> 
> In February, Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an arrest detainer
> requesting local authorities notify ICE before Cucol-Bol is released, the
> agency told CNN. According to ICE records, he is being held in custody in
> Champaign, Illinois.
> 
> CNN has reached out to the Department of Justice for an update on Cucul-
> Bol’s status. Court documents online do not list the name of a defense
> attorney for Cucul-Bol.
> 
> A death drawn into a political arena
> Joe Abraham said the federal government first reached out to him in June,
> when House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James
> Comer invited him to attend a committee meeting where Democratic governors
> – including J.B. Pritzker of Illinois – testified about their states’ so-
> called “sanctuary state” policies.
> 
> He said he had hoped to speak with Pritzker after the Illinois governor
> heard his daughter’s story, but told CNN, “No one could muster up even a
> look in my direction.”
> 
> A few weeks later, he said, he and his wife were contacted by the Trump
> administration and invited to the White House for an event for Trump’s
> “big, beautiful bill.”
> 
> “Joe, we will end this invasion once and for all, and we’re always going
> to remember the memory of Katie, the beautiful, beautiful 20-year-old
> daughter of yours,” Trump told him before shaking his hand and holding up
> a photo of the father and daughter.
> 
> “I don’t want to get political. I hate this crap. I’m just in this
> position now,” Joe Abraham told CNN.
> 
> He criticized the current Illinois government and the previous
> presidential administration for mishandling immigration and called for a
> vetting process before people are allowed in the country.
> 
> “Don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying everyone’s a criminal. What I’m
> saying is this guy in particular could have easily been filtered out of
> the system. He was using an alias … and really was not being any type of a
> productive person here in Illinois,” Joe Abraham told CNN. “And for him to
> take her life is a very sad state.”
> 
> Abraham’s parents were featured in a video posted by the Department of
> Homeland Security earlier this week, where the agency announced it was
> launching an immigration operation in Illinois.
> 
> A question appears in overlaid text on the video: “When you hear people
> say illegal aliens aren’t given due process, what’s your reaction?”
> 
> “Katie received no due process,” Joe Abraham says in the video.
> 
> “When you talk about due process, I wish she was in another country or in
> some detention center I can go see her, but she’s not, and I’ll never see
> her again.”
> 
> The Department of Homeland Security called Joe Abraham one day before the
> agency announced Operation Midway Blitz would be done in honor of their
> daughter.
> 
> “Some might say they’re leveraging me, but maybe we’re leveraging them a
> little bit so other kids don’t get killed, and other parents don’t have to
> go see what we’re going through,” he said. “So, maybe it’s a two-way
> street there. I was just happy someone acknowledged Katie.”
> 
> What is Operation Midway Blitz?
> DHS on Monday announced “Operation Midway Blitz,” aimed at targeting
> “criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they
> knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and
> allow them to roam free on American streets.”
> 
> US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained at least five people over
> the weekend, including a flower vendor and a person waiting for the bus,
> Chicago Alderperson Jeylú Gutiérrez said Monday.
> 
> Ongoing arrests in Chicago are expected to expand as a federal presence
> builds up in a weeks-long, phased approach, according to officials
> familiar with the plans who stressed it’s still in flux.
> 
> The operations in Boston and Chicago are modeled after the June
> immigration sweeps in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that
> immigration enforcement officials can continue what critics describe as
> “roving patrols” in Southern California that lower courts said likely
> violated the Fourth Amendment.
> 
> Pritzker denounced the DHS operations in the state Monday, saying in a
> post on X that the operation “isn’t about fighting crime.”
> 
> “That requires support and coordination — yet we’ve experienced nothing
> like that over the past several weeks,” he said, adding that the
> administration has chosen to focus “on scaring Illinoisians.”
> 
> 

Outstanding post, Mr. Soetoro.  The Pigster sure is a shitty governor, 
claiming that arresting a Mexican who ran from the scene of a deadly car 
crash as most Mexican illegals seem to do is "not about fighting crime." 
  The Democrat Party sure comes up with some real scum for governors and 
mayors.

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DHS launched an immigration operation in Chicago in honor of 20-year-old Katie Abraham. Here's what we know about her death "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@americans-first.com> - 2025-09-15 20:13 +0000
  Re: DHS launched an immigration operation in Chicago in honor of 20-year-old Katie Abraham. Here's what we know about her death Rodney Luther King <RLK@komkast.net> - 2025-09-15 19:38 -0600

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