DHS announces ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ in Illinois
Immigration,Immigration Reform,DHS,Illinois,Criminal Justice
The Department of Homeland Security announced it would be launching a new initiative targeting criminal illegal immigrants in Illinois.
In a post on social platform X, DHS said the operation was in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old woman from one of Chicago’s northwest suburbs who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in January by 29-year-old Julio Cucul-Bol, a citizen of Guatemala in the U.S. illegally, according to NewsNation affiliate WGN.
Her friend, Chloe Polzin, was also killed in the crash.
“These two young women—college students with their entire lives ahead of them—were killed by an illegal alien who should have NEVER been in our country. This tragedy was senseless and completely preventable,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a news release...
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