Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has found his villain for the murder of Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman, and surprise, it is not the illegal immigrant accused of the killing or the sanctuary policies that allowed him to remain in the country. No, according to Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, the real culprit is President Donald Trump. This remarkable feat of political gymnastics would be impressive if it were not so grotesquely cynical.
The facts, as they stand, paint a damning picture of Democratic governance. Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan national in the country illegally, stands accused of murdering 18-year-old Gorman during a walk along Chicago’s lakeshore. He had been arrested for shoplifting in 2023 but was released back into the community rather than turned over to federal immigration authorities. This is the “Welcoming City” ordinance in action, a policy Pritzker and Johnson now desperately deflect from by pointing fingers at Washington.
Pritzker insists it is the federal government’s job to handle immigration enforcement, which is rich coming from a man whose party has spent years building legal walls to prevent exactly that. When Trump attempts to deport criminal aliens, Democrats sue. When ICE tries to coordinate with local law enforcement, Democrats pass laws forbidding it. And now, when the inevitable consequences of these policies manifest in tragedy, Democrats claim the federal government failed to do the job they actively obstructed at every turn. How does Pritzker reconcile his demand for federal enforcement with his party’s systematic sabotage of that very enforcement?
Mayor Johnson’s contribution to this blame-shifting spectacle was equally instructive. “If there is anything to address in this country that’s illegal, it’s everything about the Trump administration,” he proclaimed, as if the alleged murder of an American citizen by someone who should not have been in the country is merely a distraction from the real threat. The political calculation here is transparent and revolting. A young woman is dead, her family shattered, and the officials most responsible for the policies that enabled this tragedy are busy constructing a narrative that protects their careers rather than admitting their failures. The voters who elected Trump to clean up this exact mess are watching, and they will not forget who stood with law-abiding Americans and who stood with the lawbreakers.
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