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In Honor of Katie Abraham: She will not be forgotten
One year ago, on January 19, 2025, Katie Abraham and her friend Chloe Polzin were killed in Urbana, Illinois, by an illegal alien drunk driver when he plowed into their stopped car going nearly 80 miles per hour. Three other girls in the car were injured. The illegal...
Illinois Failed Us All: When Sanctuary Policies Replace Safety With Slogans
The recent, heartbreaking—and predictable—news from California, where an 8-year-old child was killed by a drunk driver who was in the country illegally, underscores a question Americans can no longer avoid. My family, like others, knows this pain all too well. This...
Accountability Has a Face: Maduro’s Victims in America
The American Border Story exists to put names, faces, and truth to a crisis that is too often reduced to slogans and statistics. This week’s developments make one fact unmistakably clear: Nicolás Maduro did not just destroy Venezuela. His regime sent violent criminals...
One Year Without Katie: Answering the Questions That Follow a Preventable Death
As my family approaches the first anniversary of our daughter Katie Abraham’s death, the pain has not dulled. It has deepened. Katie was just 20 years old when she was killed on January 19, 2025, on the streets of Urbana, Illinois. She was struck and killed by a...
Testimony of a Grieving Parent and The American Border Story Memorial Act
On November 16, 2022 I got a knock on my door at 7:30pm My husband opened the door, and it was my 28-year-old son Christian’s cousin, Skylor. My heart sank. “It’s Christian.” “Is he okay?” “No he’s not.” I dropped onto the floor. My husband said I needed to get...
The Empty Chair at Our Table: How Illinois Policies Cost My Daughter Her Life
On January 19, 2025, my youngest daughter, Katie Abraham—only 20 years old—was senselessly killed on Governor Pritzker’s streets in Urbana, Illinois, less than 100 miles from the Governor’s protected mansion in Springfield. Katie was a passenger in a car with four...
My Evening with Angel Families of America
Angel Families gathered in the Granada Hills under the banner “Their Lives Mattered Too.” The event, hosted by the California Hispanic Alliance, Back to Business California, and Angel Families of America, was both memorial and indictment; a night of clarity in a state...
The Beginning of the End
This is just the beginning. The beginning of the end of illegal immigration in America. The beginning of secure borders with policies and laws to back them up. The beginning of Making America Safe Again. The line we’ve drawn in the proverbial...
Driving Ourselves to Death
Well, it happened again. This week, an illegal immigrant named Jashanpreet Singh, who crossed into the U.S. through Mexico in 2022 caused an eight-vehicle collision that included four commercial vehicles. He killed three people. The other four are in the hospital. He...