My youngest daughter , Katie, who was only 20 years old, was killed on Jan. 19. Her only “crime” was being a passenger in a car in Urbana, Illinois . The man who took her life, Julio Cucul-Bol, was an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk when he slammed into the Honda Civic she was riding in at nearly 80 miles an hour. He fled immediately and was then aided by associates in Urbana and Chicago as he tried to escape justice.

We later learned Cucul-Bol, a Guatemalan national, was using a Mexican alias: Juan Jahaziel Saenz-Suarez. Federal authorities knew about the alias. If his identity, background, and health status had been properly verified, he could have been filtered out long before Jan. 19. Katie would still be alive.

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