The Trump administration is sending federal agents and national guard troops into Chicago, and elsewhere in the State of Illinois, for a mass deportation event, and doing it in the name of a young mother who was killed by a drunk driver who happened to be an undocumented immigrant.
OK. What is the Trump Administration going to do about the 13,000 other deaths attributed to drunk driving every year? (MADD)
What is the Trump Administration going to do about the 39,000 other traffic fatalities every year? (NHTSA)
What is the Trump Administration going to do about the 7148 pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles? (GHSA)
Take a Florida, for instance. Florida had 85,089 hit and run crashes in 2024, resulting in 205 deaths, 76% of whom were pedestrians or bicyclists. (FDOT) In fact, the Tampa Bay region is the deadliest area in the country for pedestrians and bicyclists.
The vast, overwhelming majority of traffic fatalities in the United States involve citizens. It's such a ubiquitous problem that it doesn't even make the headlines. It's just accepted as a fact of life. It's a roadside memorial that gets turned into a roadside plaque if someone wants to sponsor one.
If the Trump administration is going to spend hundreds of millions on Illinois rounding up people who had nothing to do with this one crash, and this one tragic traffic death in the name of one person killed in traffic then the Trump administration should put their money where their collective mouth is and do something about the other 39,000 traffic deaths we have every year, and the 13,000 drunk driving deaths, and the 7100 pedestrians killed in traffic every year. But they won't, because the whole exercise is nothing but a show to endear Trump to his jingoist base.
