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Angel Dads face another Father’s Day without children killed by illegal immigrants: ‘She should be graduating’
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FIRST ON FOX: As families across the country celebrate Father’s Day, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is honoring a group of fathers bound together by tragedy: fathers whose children were killed or catastrophically injured in crimes tied to illegal aliens and cartel-linked criminals.
DHS shared the stories of three Angel Dads with Fox News Digital: Marcus Coleman, Joe Abraham and Doug Quets, whose lives were forever changed by the deaths of their children and whose losses now serve as a reminder of the lasting impact illegal immigrant crime can have on American families.
«This Father’s Day, the United States Department of Homeland Security honors fathers, children and spouses forever changed by violent crimes committed by illegal aliens who should have never been in our country,» DHS said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The recognition comes through the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, known as VOICE, which was relaunched under the Trump administration after being shuttered during the Biden administration. The office provides support, offender custody information, victim services and guidance to families affected by crimes with an immigration nexus.
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Father and son Nicholas and Doug Quets pose together in this undated photo. (Courtesy Department of Homeland Security)
The office has fielded nearly 900 calls over the past year, according to DHS and ICE data. Victims and family members accounted for 87% of callers, who collectively reported 815 crimes linked to immigration violations, including homicides, sexual assaults and violent attacks.
As families gather for time with loved ones, fathers like Joe Abraham are instead confronting the painful reality of another Father’s Day without their children.
Katie Abraham was just 20 years old when she was killed in a crash caused by an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk, according to her father.
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Joe Abraham holds a photograph of himself with his 20-year-old daughter, Katie Abraham, at their family home in Glenview, Ill., on Sept. 10, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, File)
This year, her family should be celebrating her graduation from college. Instead, they are mourning the future she never had.
«This Father’s Day, our family is once again facing the unimaginable reality that Katie is not here,» Abraham told Fox News Digital. «We should be celebrating her graduation from Ohio University and looking forward to all the milestones still ahead of her. Instead, we carry the weight of everything that was taken from her, and from us.»
Abraham described Katie as «intelligent, thoughtful, fiercely loyal, and full of promise.»
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The Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Midway Blitz to honor Katie Abraham, who was killed in a hit-and-run caused by a criminal illegal alien in Illinois. The department worked with her father, Joe Abraham, during the operation. (Department of Homeland Security)
«Her life mattered, and she deserved the chance to live it,» he said.
Abraham said he is grateful DHS chose to honor Katie through Operation Midway Blitz and believes efforts to remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens can help prevent similar tragedies from happening to other American families.
«While no operation can undo the loss our family has endured, meaningful action to remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens and prevent future tragedies ensures that Katie’s story is not forgotten,» he said.
ANGEL FATHER SLAMS PRITZKER’S SANCTUARY POLICIES, SAYING THEY LEAD TO ‘PREVENTABLE’ DEATHS
Marcus Coleman holds his daughter Dalilah, who was catastrophically injured in a car accident caused by an illegal alien.
Hundreds of miles away, Doug Quets is preparing for a Father’s Day marked by another painful anniversary.
«This weekend we will commemorate our second Father’s Day without our beloved son, Nicholas Douglas Quets, who was ambushed in a horrific failed carjacking by Sinaloa affiliated cartel members on October 18, 2024,» Quets said.
Nicholas Quets, a Marine Corps veteran, was 31 years old when he was shot and killed in Mexico while traveling to Rocky Point, according to his father.
FATHER OF MARINE VET MURDERED IN MEXICO PRAISES TRUMP ADMIN SANCTIONS ON SINALOA CARTEL: ‘PALPABLE’ MOMENTUM
Then presidential candidate President Donald Trump holds a portrait of Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran killed in Mexico, as Quets’ relatives attend his rally in Henderson, Nev., on Oct. 31, 2024. (Mike Blake/Reuters, File)
Quets says his son’s death demonstrates what he believes are the dangers posed by cartel violence and the consequences of failed border security policies.
«The terrorists, emboldened by failed Biden-era U.S. immigration policies which were weaponized against us, pursued Nick in eleven vehicles stolen from U.S. citizens on both sides of the border,» Quets said.
«After identifying him as a U.S. citizen, they cowardly shot Nick in the back, through the heart, using weapons smuggled south from the U.S. effectively.»
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Nicholas Douglas Quets and his father stand in front of flags. (Courtesy Quets Family)
«Cartels exploited our uncontrolled border and weaponized our unenforced immigration laws against all of us,» he said.
«While nothing will bring Nick back, we are exceptionally grateful President Trump signed Executive Order 14157 designating Sinaloa and other Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs),» he said.
DHS is also honoring Marcus Coleman, whose daughter, Dalilah, suffered catastrophic injuries in a crash involving an illegal immigrant that later fueled advocacy efforts surrounding commercial driver’s license laws.
Unlike Abraham and Quets, Coleman is not mourning the death of a child. Instead, he has spent years caring for and advocating on behalf of his daughter while pushing for reforms he believes could help prevent similar tragedies.
«Dalilah changed my life forever,» Coleman told Fox News Digital. «She taught me that being a father is more than providing—it’s protecting, advocating, and refusing to stay silent when change is needed.»
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Marcus Coleman holds his daughter Dalilah Coleman as President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
«This Father’s Day, I honor and stand with every Angel Father who turns his pain into purpose and his love into action.»
Coleman, founder of Stand With Dalilah, has dedicated himself to advocacy efforts in the years since the crash that altered his daughter’s life.
The fathers’ stories sit at the center of the Trump administration’s renewed focus on victims of crimes connected to illegal immigration through the VOICE office.
The agency says the office was created to help victims and surviving family members navigate the aftermath of crimes linked to immigration violations by providing offender custody information, enforcement and removal guidance and referrals to victim-assistance resources.
According to ICE data, callers identified 815 crimes linked to immigration violations over the past year, including violent assaults, sexual assaults, homicides, family violence and stalking cases.
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DHS says many surviving victims and family members face emotional, legal and logistical challenges long after a crime occurs and that the VOICE office was designed to help guide them through those challenges.
For fathers like Abraham, Quets and Coleman, however, no government office can restore what was taken from them.
This Father’s Day, while families across the country celebrate with their children, Angel Dads are remembering the sons and daughters they lost.
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Vance says ‘United States wins either way’ as he defends Trump’s Iran deal against GOP skeptics
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Vice President JD Vance pushed back Saturday on criticism that the deal signed between President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian would hand Tehran economic benefits without requiring meaningful changes in the terror-sponsoring nation’s behavior.
In a morning interview on «Fox & Friends,» Vance brushed aside concerns raised by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and other Republicans who say Iran could eventually use the memorandum of understanding’s economic incentives to rebuild its military and nuclear programs. The MOU is meant to serve as a framework for a long-term peace agreement.
«I like Roger, he’s a friend of mine, but I think that he’s wrong on this,» Vance said. «What the MOU says is that if the Iranians behave over a long period of time, they could get some of the benefits of this bargain.»
Critics on both sides of the aisle have charged that the agreement signed earlier this week misses key objectives for the United States, including the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities and enriched uranium stockpiles, limits on its ballistic missile program and a requirement that Tehran end its support for regional proxy groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance joined family members at Ground Zero in New York City Sept. 11, 2024, to honor victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Wicker claimed the 60-day ceasefire agreement set forth in the MOU undermines the United States’ victories in Operation Epic Fury «in ways that are completely out of step with the president’s goals.»
«Specifically, the $300 billion fund for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran — though not funded by U.S. taxpayers — would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison,» Wicker said in a statement.
Wicker argued that easing sanctions on Iran while requiring Israel to cease military action against Hezbollah is misguided, given the group’s continued attacks on Israel’s northern border and its backing from Tehran.
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«The Iranian regime has not renounced its ultimate goal — ‘Death to America, Death to Israel,’» Wicker said. «The regime will invest every penny it receives to further that aim.»
But Vance said critics have incorrectly assumed Iran would receive economic benefits regardless of its conduct. Sanctions relief and regional economic aid would only be considered after Iran demonstrates sustained compliance with the agreement and abandons efforts to advance its nuclear program, Vance said.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., departs a meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 28, 2025, as lawmakers work to advance the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
«The United States has all the cards,» Vance said. «The [Strait of Hormuz is] now open, the Iranian military is now destroyed. The Iranians have committed to, of course, destroying that stockpile of the rich material, but we have a lot of economic pressure applied to the Iranians that we would be willing to relieve if they do what we need them to do.»
Vance said the agreement is already delivering tangible results, citing the movement of 16 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday after the waterway reopened to commercial traffic. He said the administration is focused on ensuring Iran is permanently blocked from restoring its nuclear program.
«We’re going to go after that enriched stockpile of uranium,» Vance said. «We’re going to try to reset the situation that we have, so that the Iranians don’t just have a destroyed nuclear program now, but so that we can say with some confidence, through a combination of inspections and verification, that they’re never going to be able to rebuild that program.»
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 12, 2026. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images)
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Vance also expressed confidence that a ceasefire between Iran and Israel would hold long enough for negotiations to continue. U.S. officials are preparing for talks involving Iranian, Qatari and Pakistani representatives, which could begin within days, according to Vance.
«There’s a fork in the road here,» Vance said. «The United States wins either way, but I think that what ultimately happens from here is very much up to the Iranians.»
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El libertario Abelardo De la Espriella se impone por un estrecho margen y será el próximo presidente de Colombia
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s escalating feud with President Donald Trump is nothing but a calculated political strategy aimed at boosting her standing at home, a leading Italian political analyst told Fox News Digital on Sunday.
After the row between Trump and Meloni escalated on June 20, analysts also said the Italian leader may see little downside in confronting Trump, particularly as she faces declining approval ratings ahead of Italy’s 2027 general election.
The diplomatic dispute had reached a boiling point after Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced June 19 that he was scrapping a trip to Washington, where he had been scheduled to meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
«Giorgia Meloni must have calculated that a public row with Trump yields no tangible consequences, other than an increase in her domestic and international standing,» Mattia Diletti, a political science lecturer at Sapienza University of Rome, said.
TRUMP SAYS MELONI ‘WANTS TO BE FRIENDS AGAIN’ AFTER ITALY REFUSED TO HELP US AMID IRAN WAR
Giorgia Meloni said President Trump’s statements were «completely made up» and that «neither I nor Italy ever beg.» (Mandel NGAN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images; Bastien Ohier / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images))
Giovanni Orsina, a political scientist at Rome’s Luiss University, also told the Financial Times that the row would offer a «positive image» for Meloni and a «silver lining» to a confrontation she had «desperately tried to avoid.»
The friction between Trump and Meloni intensified after an interview broadcast by Italy’s La7 television network, where the president claimed she had asked for a photograph with him at the G7 summit and that he agreed only out of pity.
«She begged me to take a picture with her,» Trump said. «She wanted a picture with me so badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her.»
RUBIO MEETS MELONI AS TRUMP–POPE CLASH CLASH ESCALATES US STRAINS WITH KEY EUROPEAN ALLY
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends her annual press conference in Rome on Jan. 9, 2026, addressing government priorities and policy challenges for the year ahead. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
Meloni fired back, releasing a video statement on X rejecting the president’s narrative.
«I am frankly stunned,» Meloni said in the video message. «I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way toward his own allies. But there’s one thing he must remember: Neither I nor Italy ever beg.»
Trump doubled down on Truth Social and tied the row directly to Meloni’s political fortunes.
«Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G7 meeting in France,» Trump wrote on Truth Social.
«She is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of America… when it came to denying Iran from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon … She wouldn’t even let us use Italy’s landing strips or runways, a great logistical inconvenience … Now, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her ‘numbers up.’ No thanks!!!»
Within hours, Meloni responded on social media: «As for my popularity, being your friend certainly has not helped it … My popularity depends on my ability to defend Italy’s national interest… In any case, my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.»
TRUMP ‘RIGHT TO BE OUTRAGED’ BY EUROPE’S BETRAYAL ON IRAN, SAYS FORMER THATCHER ADVISOR
Rubio will travel to Italy on Wednesday for meetings with Pope Leo and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. (Maria Grazia Picciarella/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The back-and-forth marks a reversal for two leaders who once enjoyed a close political alignment.
When Meloni first came to power, she positioned herself as a bridge between Washington and Brussels while pushing ties with Trump based on shared nationalism and stances on immigration.
«Politically, Trump has favored Meloni,» Diletti noted, pointing out that she had previously visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2025. She was the only European Union leader to attend his second inauguration.
The cracks also appeared in April when Trump criticized Meloni for siding with Pope Leo XIV’s condemnation of the U.S. conflict with Iran.
On Sunday, Trump also criticized Italy and Giorgia Meloni over their approach to Iran, accusing the NATO ally of failing to help confront Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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«As the 2027 Italian general election approaches, Meloni is facing a decline in approval ratings for the first time,» Diletti explained.
«The opportunity to counter a President so unpopular in Europe and Italy helps bolster her approval ratings and allows her to build European solidarity,» he claimed.
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