
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On Thursday, March 19, 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman went for a Chicago lakefront walk with three friends. She was wantonly shot dead by an illegal alien.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This was the same lakefront that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker walked along in a Tik Tok video claiming the area was perfectly safe. His video was specifically created to oppose ICE agents doing their work in his state. It is more than ironic that Gorman was murdered by an illegal alien – the very type of person that ICE was removing from the streets of Chicago.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The killer, Jose Medina-Medina, was a 25-year-old Venezuelan who was in the United States illegally – a product of President Biden’s open borders policy. This was not Medina-Medina’s first brush with the law. He entered the country illegally in May 2023, was apprehended by Border Patrol, and was released. In June 2023, Chicago police arrested him for shoplifting $132 worth of merchandise from a Macy’s store on State Street. He was released on bond once again, failed to appear in court, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. That warrant remained active when he gunned down Sheridan Gorman. Sanctuary policies and lax enforcement kept this criminal on the streets. Illinois Democrats own that failure.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Both Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gave it short shrift – continuing their campaign against ICE presence in Chicago. When specifically questioned about the murder, Pritzker called it “a terrible tragedy” and acknowledged “real failures” in the immigration system, but he quickly pivoted to blame national issues and the Trump administration. He stated, “There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That is their national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Johnson offered condolences but deflected blame to “illegal weapons that are being trafficked from bordering states that voted for Donald Trump.” He insisted that the bigger threat to public safety came from guns, not illegal immigration, and refused to apologize for sanctuary policies that protected criminals like Medina.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Even more amazing was Democrat Alderman Maria Hadden, who represents the Rogers Park neighborhood where the murder occurred. She said Gorman was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” – and suggested that Gorman and her friends may have done something to frighten Medina, who happened to have a gun. In an interview, Hadden mused that the students “might have startled the gunman at the end of the pier unintentionally.” This victim-blaming garbage came before the suspect was even identified. Hadden later issued a half-hearted apology after her remarks sparked outrage, but the damage was done. Her words revealed the twisted mindset of Chicago Democrats. Their first instinct is to protect the criminal and blame the victim.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Gorman’s own school paper, The Loyola Phoenix, apologized for calling Medina an “illegal alien” in its initial reports. They then issued an apologetic statement that said:</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“<em>No human’s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that. We acknowledge the harm such language can cause and the power and importance of the words we choose to use. That language does not align with Associated Press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper. We deeply regret these errors.”</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A human’s existence may not be, in and of itself, illegal, but what they do can be so labeled. Calling Medina an “Illegal alien” is accurate and proper, both as the adjective and the noun. We do have non-citizens – aliens &#8212; who are in America legally, but Medina is not one of them.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Loyola editors even took down an Instagram post that referenced his immigration status to “prevent any further harm to affected community members.” Imagine that – an American college student lies dead, and the campus newspaper wrings its hands over proper woke terminology for the killer. Their first interest is to prevent reputational “harm to affected (presumably Venezuelan) community members.” This is more left-wing insanity.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Gorman’s murder is just another example of Democrat officials playing down the history and role of the killer – essentially ignoring or even blaming the victim. That was evident in Gorman’s family’s response to the killing and the statements and actions of Democrat officials, including Pritzker and Johnson.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Gorman family released a powerful statement demanding accountability. They rejected the blameless “unfortunate tragedy” narrative and the attempts to shift blame to Trump, to guns or to Gorman. The family declared that the system failed their daughter, that sanctuary policies and open borders enabled this horror, and that leaders like Pritzker and Johnson must answer for it. “Calling this a tragedy is not enough,” they said. Sheridan Gorman deserved a future that was stolen from her by a criminal who should never have been here – and by politicians who allowed him to remain in the country with sanctuary policies and anti-ICE policies.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The outrage here runs deep. Illinois Democrats have turned Chicago into a sanctuary city where illegal aliens with criminal records roam free while law-abiding citizens pay the price. Pritzker and Johnson prioritize political ideology over public safety. They fight ICE tooth and nail, pass laws shielding criminals, fail to prosecute and then feign shock when an innocent 18-year-old girl is executed in a place they claim was safe. Their responses drip with deflection and political gamesmanship. Instead of vowing to secure the borders and cooperate with federal enforcement, they lecture about “comprehensive reform” and blame everyone but themselves.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sheridan Gorman was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was a bright young woman enjoying college life in a city her leaders swore was secure. The wrong place was Chicago under Democrat rule. The wrong time was after years of open borders and sanctuary madness. Medina should have been deported long ago. Instead, he walked free thanks to the very policies Pritzker, Johnson and national Democrats champion.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This murder exposes the lethal hypocrisy of the left. They virtue-signal about compassion while victims like Gorman bleed out on the streets. They apologize for words describing killers but offer no apologies to grieving families. They claim to care about public safety yet dismantle every tool that keeps criminals off the streets. Illinois Democrats have blood on their hands, and Sheridan Gorman’s death demands more than condolences. It demands real accountability, real border security, real law enforcement and real leadership that puts the law-abiding American citizen first.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The left-wing craziness on display here is not an anomaly. It is the inevitable result of radical policies that value illegal aliens over citizens – criminal over victims. Until voters reject this insanity, more innocent lives will be lost. Sheridan Gorman’s murder must be a wake-up call. The Democrats who enabled it must be held responsible. Anything less dishonors her memory and endangers every family in Illinois.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, there ’tis.</p>

Gorman Murder Puts Left-Wing Democrat Craziness on Full Display
