‘My Daughter Was Disappeared’: Father Of Girl Allegedly Killed By Illegal Alien Rips Sanctuary States

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Illinois father Joe Abraham joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the preventable death of his daughter Katie Abraham, who died after an allegedly drunk illegal alien struck her vehicle with his car and then fled the scene. Abraham also explains why Democrat states' decisions to harbor foreign criminals under "sanctuary" policies hurt victims and their families

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.2	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:26.0	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.1	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:34.1	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:36.8	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course,
0:40.6	to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Joe Abraham. He's not a
0:48.0	politician or a powerful bureaucrat, an author, or a celebrity. Joe Abraham is a dad from Glenview, Illinois. In January,
1:01.0	his daughter, Katie, his youngest child, was killed in a car crash near the University of Illinois
1:07.2	Urbana. She was 20. The man accused of taking Katie's life and the life of another
1:13.7	young woman is a previously deported illegal alien who police say fled from the scene of the crash.
1:21.4	He was later apprehended on his way to the southern border. Last week, Joe Abraham was the guest of the chairman of the powerful oversight and government
1:34.7	reform committee, James Comer.
1:36.9	And that committee, they had on the hot seat three governors in what is viewed by most as sanctuary states, in Minnesota,
1:50.2	New York, and in Joe Abraham's own Illinois, where Democrat J.B. Pritzker resides as governor.
2:00.6	All three of these politicians have said or their policies have indicated that they will not,
2:08.3	at least at some level, work with federal law enforcement authorities to apprehend, detain
2:16.9	or bring into custody in general illegal immigrants, including criminal
2:24.4	illegal immigrants. That's a difficult thing to hear for people like Joe Abraham. He joins us now
2:33.5	on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
2:36.8	Good day, sir. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Matt, appreciate it.
2:42.0	Before we get into what you saw you experienced on Capitol Hill last week, let us go back.
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