A Broken Father, a Broken Nation

By John Kass

August 13, 2025

The other day I did something I haven’t done in quite a while: Interview a victim of political violence.

This is his story. His name is Joe Abraham. He’s from Glenview, a suburb of Chicago. His father was an immigrant from Iraq.

Joe’s daughter Katie Abraham, 20, was killed in January 2025 while sitting in a car at a stoplight in Urbana, Illinois. She was with three of her friends, visiting.

The drunken driver who slammed into the rear of her car came here illegally from Guatemala, one of the 20 million plus illegals invited by Joe Biden Democrats to invade the U.S. so that illegals could be counted in the U.S. Census to boost Democrat numbers for Congressional districts.

The drunk driver’s name is Julio Cucul Bol, 29. He slammed into the other car at the stoplight, going 78 miles-per-hour.

Katie was killed instantly, and another girl died the next day. One survivor is suffering numerous broken bones, including vertebrae. Bol ran off and was later arrested in Texas, posing as a Mexican, about to enter that country.

He’s alive but the Abraham family is paying with a death sentence.

“He’s alive. And we’re in some type of numbness that won’t end,” he said of his family. “It’s our death sentence.”

Katie Abraham’s killer — a previously deported Guatemalan national — should never have been in our country. This senseless tragedy was 100 percent preventable.

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill will provide funding to complete border wall construction and hire the law… pic.twitter.com/Xbzvc3FBNv

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 26, 2025

For all the words of some politicians, all the words of journalists, and the prayers of the holy men, the criminal taking a child’s life imposes an unappealable death sentence on the survivors.

There is no “closure.”  There is no ending. The pain won’t end until the grave.

“Yeah, I think absolutely Katie would be with me here today if it wasn’t for these awful policies of Joe Biden, and the Democrats but I just don’t want to blame Joe Biden alone,” Abraham said. “I think we all know Joe Biden really did not know what’s going on, so it was sort of the powers behind the throne that was doing this. But yeah, I also to put some responsibility on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his fellow Democrats.”

Joe and Katie’s stepmother Michelle were present at the Congressional Oversight committee hearing. He sat right behind Pritzker.

And Pritzker didn’t turn to acknowledge him. Joe didn’t want that. He wanted clarity, not empty speeches.

Katie Abraham was just 20 years old when her life was stolen by an illegal alien drunk driver in central Illinois.

I confronted Pritzker face-to-face with the devastating consequences of his actions — and he still refused to take responsibility.

Today, 160 Democrats doubled… https://t.co/RMYkBTx51r pic.twitter.com/qCwuRJBAek

— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) June 26, 2025

“We were at the Oversight Committee and there were many inconsistencies with what he was saying,” Abraham told me. “He has done this; he put out a welcome back that says no matter what your status we will protect you we are sanctuary you are safe here.

“Do you not think that’s a magnet for people to come and abuse that border and our country? I think it’s Joe Biden’s administration and yes do I think it’s JB Pritzker and his Democratic allies. If there was just a little bit of audit, a little bit of vetting Julio Cucul Bol would not have been in this country or in this state and unfortunately, I’m not the only victim here or person that’s suffering and that’s even more unfortunate.

“I want to stop this going forward no one should have to go through with me and my family are going through right now. JB Pritzker didn’t take the time to muster up even one word to me, and look, I’m not looking for an
“I’m sorry,” I don’t want Katie to be collateral damage, just a stat…maybe I would have liked them to say hey Joe it’s very unfortunate things got out of control we’re trying to get things figured out and we’re sorry this happened. But there was nothing like that, it was just silence.”

But it was in that silence, the silence of the grave, where truth could be found.

President Donald Trump took time to talk to Joe Abraham like a man, like a father. But J.B. Pritzker didn’t approach, nor did the other Illinois Democrats at the hearing.

“There’s no due process that we got–either one of us–this Julio Bol and JB and the whole group of politicians…they were judge, jury and executioner for me and Katie because she’s dead well they would say you’re not dead. But I’m suffering the rest of my life is what my life will never be the same I’m in a lifestyle it’s this is not how my life was supposed to end. We did have a social contract, but they failed us.

“I have a life sentence now I have to live with this rest of my life without with my little girl.”

For years you have been asking about the why of the Democrats and the Biden White House allowing the alien invaders into America.

It seemed so random, without reason, and we grasp at reasons and so many Angel Parents mourn their dead.

The hundreds of thousands now who’ve been poisoned by fentanyl. And all those young women raped and tortured and trafficked and destroyed by illegal immigrants.

Young women like 22-year-old nursing student Laken Reilly and Jocelyn Nungaray, 12. And Katie Abraham, 20. And so many, many more.

But they all were collateral damage to Democrat policy. The millions upon millions of illegals, many given public assistance by American taxpayers were allowed to cross illegally into the United States for two reasons:

To replace troublesome (i.e., “independent minded” Americans) opposed to the Deep State.

And to provide enough numbers in the U.S. Census to protect the population loss in deep blue Democrat districts and states, Illinois being one of these.

Why did they and their loved ones have to suffer?

For political power for the Democrats, to boost the numbers of the U.S. Census in Democrat districts—with taxpayers shelling out for welfare and other enticements to lure the illegals over.

That is why if you suggest the truth of it, they will scream like mad banshees on the defensive and turn up their media megaphones to shout you down.

It’s all about their power and protecting their power.

And in a broken nation that has been broken on the altar of Democratic Power politics, a good and decent American, a broken father, thinks of his child. He’ll be thinking of Katie Abraham, long after Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Family,  J.B. Pritzker and all the other mealy mouthed politicos are long gone.

There are no words for this father’s loss.

You can hear the parents’ words in this video link.  But you can’t hear hear Katie.  She’s gone.

 

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