CHICAGO (WLS) -- When "Operation Midway Blitz" was first announced back in early September , the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was being launched in honor of Katie Abraham, a young woman who was killed in Urbana by a drunk driver who happens to be undocumented.

Abraham's mother is now speaking out. She says this should not be her daughter's legacy.

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"I'm here because Katie's not here," Denise Lorence said.

That is the very first thing Lorence wanted ABC7 Chicago to know as she sat down to talk Wednesday, six weeks after the launch of "Operation Midway Blitz" in the Chicago area.

"It's not consistent with who she was. It doesn't align with who she was," Lorence said. "She was compassionate. She was empathetic. She

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