This is the inversion of government priorities:
A government that cannot adequately protect and serve its own citizens creates special privileges, benefits and protections tied to illegality, while the citizens who fund it are left carrying the bill.
Why?
If congressional apportionment and federal funding were not affected by illegal immigration, would so called "benevolent" politicians be so willing to spend other people's money to build and defend these systems?
To be very clear, government has no money of its own.
It takes it from we the people, then decides how to spend it.
When our money is used to encourage, incentivize and protect unlawful behavior while citizens and victims are left to absorb the consequences, the law-abiding become the funding source and illegality becomes the beneficiary.
Government has turned its obligations on their head.
And for my family, this isn't theoretical.
Katie was killed by an intoxicated illegal immigrant who should never have been in this country.
Protected in ways Katie wasn't.
Illinois took my tax dollars and used them to help build and sustain a system that extended benefits and protections to the very person who would ultimately kill her on the streets of sanctuary Urbana, Illinois.
I was FORCED to help fund the systems that failed to protect her.
Think about that.
The government took from me as a citizen, gave to the person who was here illegally, and my daughter paid the ultimate price. Katie is now in a grave.
And what may be even harder to comprehend is what came afterward: the staggering arrogance, lack of self-reflection, wisdom and humility to acknowledge the damage these policies have caused, accept responsibility and change course.
Instead, too often, the same people who created these consequences defend the very policies that helped create them.
How much more evidence, how much more loss, will it take?
We must ask why.
EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.
We went inside the system and exposed it all.