Put the father in the chair. The consultants already had their decade.
Angel Dad takes major new role after daughter's killing sparks sweeping illegal alien crackdown
Joe Abraham is taking ICE's victim office after an illegal alien's hit-and-run killed his daughter. That is a father, not a panel.
Summary
- Fox reports Angel Dad Joe Abraham, whose daughter Katie Abraham was killed in an illegal-alien hit-and-run, will become executive director of ICE's VOICE office.
- Abraham said the job is not a government costume. It is personal, rooted in a loss he says other families should not have to learn the hard way.
- VOICE is the ICE office that works with victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens, a desk that only exists because the interior failed first.
- The appointment lands as the Trump administration keeps using victim cases to drive detainers, not another listening session.
Commentary
A father who buried a daughter does not need a symposium on root causes. He needs the name of the driver, the status of the visa that never existed, and a government that stops pretending the crash was weather.
That is the gap. Advocacy shops get a podium. Abraham gets a desk at ICE. One side writes grants about 'newcomers.' The other side writes case files about a girl who did not come home.
Look every parent in this country in the eye and answer this: if a victim's father has to staff the agency himself, what were the last four years of releases for?
Comments
VOICE exists because someone died. Staff it with people who remember the name.
Victim coordination is part of enforcement, not a therapy brand. Give it a badge and a docket.
A serious country lets the injured family set the temperature, not the NGO that released the driver.
Watch who hates this hire. It is usually the shop that called the detainer 'cruel.'
I work nights so my kid gets home. Abraham's kid did not. That is the whole memo.
Katie is not a statistic. She is why ICE still knocks after the funeral flowers die.
Interior enforcement is national security when the next wheel is a stranger's.
Fox printed the title: executive director, ICE VOICE. Do not sand it into 'community liaison.'
Hire the fathers. Fund the detainers. Keep the office pointed at the next illegal driver.