Another American family is mourning a child lost to the chaos at our southern border. Chicago police have taken a Venezuelan migrant into custody for questioning in the execution-style murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University who had her whole life ahead of her, according to Chicago Police Department reports.
Gorman was walking with friends near campus in Rogers Park around 1:30 AM Thursday when a masked gunman approached the group and opened fire without warning. She was shot in the head and died at the scene. No robbery. No argument. Just cold, calculated violence against kids living their lives, as detailed in local news coverage.
Investigators used surveillance technology to track the suspect, and by Friday night they had a 25-year-old Venezuelan national in custody with a recovered firearm, per law enforcement sources. The suspect entered the country under the Biden administration’s open-border policies, part of the millions of unvetted foreign nationals who flooded into American communities over the past four years, as noted in reports from immigration experts.
Sheridan Gorman was from Westchester County, New York. She came to Chicago to study, to grow, to become who God made her to be. Instead, she became another statistic in the deadly cost of failed immigration enforcement. How many more Sheridan Gormans will there be before we demand accountability? How many more families must bury their children because political elites prioritized open borders over public safety?
President Trump has spent years warning that uncontrolled migration brings violent criminals into our neighborhoods, as he stated in numerous speeches. The establishment media called him xenophobic for saying it. They ran fact-checks and editorials about how migration makes us safer. Tell that to the Gorman family. Tell that to the parents who sent their daughter to college and got a phone call no parent should ever receive.
This is not about politics. This is about protecting American citizens in their own country. The Constitution guarantees domestic tranquility, but that promise rings hollow when violent offenders walk our streets because bureaucrats refuse to enforce the law, according to conservative analysts. The border crisis is not an abstraction. It is Sheridan Gorman dead on a Chicago sidewalk at eighteen years old.
Providence watches over the bold.
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