An Angel Dad’s Fight: Joe Abraham on Loss, Faith and Immigration

Sean Hannity (0:00)

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You know, I've been doing this for a long time. It's our 25th year in syndication. I'm about to complete my 30th year of Fox, and you know, I have a lot more years on radio than in syndication. And I'm honored to do what I do. One of the hardest parts of this job, and I don't consider this job hard, to be honest, because I love it, and when you love something, it's not really work. And I thank all of you for that. But one of the hardest parts of this job is when you have to interview people that you know are in pain. I can't think of anything worse. Like I watched, for example, and we discussed earlier this week, the issue of addiction, as Cindy Crawford and her husband lost their 27-year-old son. We're getting more details on that. And I don't like what I'm reading. I don't like the person that was running this facility. It was not a real rehab facility. It was not a licensed one. His background is not one that gives me any hope or comfort.

But from what I know, and I've heard from people that actually know them, is they have been trying for years to help their child overcome addiction, but they lost their child. 27 years old. Back to the issue at hand, there are so many angel moms and angel dads that we have had on this program over the years, and it's heartbreaking. I'm gonna play one here, and then I will introduce you to Joe Abraham. He is the father of Katie Abraham, and this is him describing his daughter being killed by an illegal immigrant drunk driver at this Senate hearing on Capitol Hill. Listen.

Joe Abraham (1:53)

So, before I begin, I want you to picture something pretty ordinary. A car sitting at a red light idol, five young friends inside, talking, laughing, having a normal night. My daughter Katie was in the backseat. Car wasn't moving, it was at a red light. In a single instant, my daughter's life was gone. An intoxicated illegal immigrant slammed into the back of her car at 80 miles an hour. They never saw that coming. First responders fought to pull my daughter's dead body out of that car.

She didn't survive.

The man who caused the crash, Julio Cuco Bol, a Guatemalan national who had already been deported, ran, but was eventually captured in Milford, Texas, trying to escape the country. Despite federal authorities knowing who he was, he was able to reenter the United States in 2022 and live in Illinois under a identity. Because state policies and enforcement gaps fail to protect public, the public. Katie deserved a future full of love, laughter and life, graduating college, building a career, falling in love and experiencing all the joys and heartbreak of adulthood. Instead, that was stolen at a red light in a street in Illinois.

The man who killed or described himself in court is unable to read or write English, even Spanish. He spoke a Chi Mayan language from Guatemala.

Yet somehow he possessed an Illinois driver's license, valid. So when a system sends signals that borders are porous, that deportations are ignored and that enforcement is unlikely, people who are willing to ignore the law will take advantage of those conditions. That is not a complicated idea. That is human behavior. It's predictable. And when those incentives exist, the consequences are not abstract. Families like mine live with them forever.

Sean Hannity (3:59)

All right. Anyway, joining us now is Joe Abraham is with us. I really don't have words, Joe, to express to you my deepest condolences, my deepest sympathies, my prayers for you, my prayers for your family. You're an angel dad, father to Katie, taken from you far too soon, an illegal immigrant, you know, hit the back of the car that she was sitting at a red light. She was in the back seat. She died as a result. She was only 20 years old.

President Trump named his effort with the DHS to extricate illegals from the nation. And, you know, I know you're taking this fight to help other angel families that have suffered like you and prevent more people from joining them.

What words do you have to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Alejandro Mayorkas? Because I looked at them lying to us, saying the board is closed secure, as the single most preventable national security disaster in our nation's history. And I've interviewed many angel families, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, and, you know, it's just, it's so preventable. Never would have happened otherwise. What are your thoughts?