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Eric Schmitt: “They look like Katie Abraham, a young woman in Illinois…”

Featuring: Eric Schmitt, Republican | U.S. Senate, Missouri

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Schmitt Chairs Senate Judiciary Hearing Highlighting Painful Consequences of Sanctuary City Policies

Published | Video Starts at 03:20

… college student in Chicago shot in the back while walking with friends by an illegal alien who had already been caught at the border, released, arrested again, then released again. They look like Katie Abraham, a young woman in Illinois killed by an illegal immigrant drunk driver who had already been deported once, reentered the country and evaded the laws thanks to sanctuary policies. These are not freak accidents. They're not acts of God. They are foreseeable consequences of public officials making a conscious decision to obstruct immigration enforcement and release people who should never have been released back onto the streets in the first place. (03:20–03:35)

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Asserts that sanctuary policies allowed a deported illegal immigrant to reenter and kill Katie Abraham.

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