Pritzker and Johnson Smear Trump for Murder of Sheridan Gorman by Migrant

The body of Sheridan Gorman wasn’t even cold before Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson started pointing fingers at the one man who had nothing to do with her death: Donald Trump. According to statements from Pritzker and Johnson reported by Fox News, Gorman, a 20-year-old Loyola University student, was allegedly murdered by a Guatemalan illegal immigrant who had no business being in this country in the first place. But instead of owning the failure of their own sanctuary policies, these two Democrats decided to blame the former president for a crisis they helped create, as detailed in their public remarks shared on social media.

The suspect had been in the country illegally and was released into the interior under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policies, according to Department of Homeland Security records cited in mainstream media reports, and somehow made his way to Chicago where he allegedly took an innocent young woman’s life. This isn’t a hypothetical scenario about border security—it’s the brutal reality that families like the Gormans now have to live with forever, as covered in police reports from Chicago authorities. When you roll out the welcome mat for anyone who can cross the Rio Grande, don’t act shocked when some of them turn out to be predators, a point often raised by conservative commentators analyzing immigration data.

What makes this political theater so grotesque is the utter shamelessness of it all. Pritzker and Johnson have spent years thumping their chests about Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city, actively working against federal immigration enforcement and blocking cooperation with ICE, based on city council resolutions and gubernatorial statements documented in local news outlets. They’ve turned the Windy City into a magnet for illegal immigration, and now they want to blame Trump for the consequences? That’s not leadership—it’s deflection dressed up in a cheap suit.

Trump’s policies, from the Remain in Mexico protocol to increased border wall construction, were specifically designed to prevent exactly this kind of tragedy, as Trump himself stated in his administration’s official reports and speeches. The border was more secure under his administration than it had been in decades, according to Border Patrol statistics released during his term. The current administration dismantled those protections within weeks of taking office, and the results have been catastrophic—millions of illegal crossings, fentanyl flooding our streets, and now innocent Americans paying the ultimate price, all as reported by various federal agency summaries.

How many more Sheridan Gormans need to die before the open-borders crowd admits they were wrong? How many families need to be destroyed before sanctuary city politicians stop playing games with public safety? The answer, apparently, is however many it takes to keep their ideological fantasies intact, a sentiment echoed in analyses from conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. Because for Pritzker and Johnson, the narrative matters more than the body count. And that’s the real tragedy here—not just that a young woman lost her life, but that the people responsible for protecting her would rather blame their political enemies than look in the mirror.

Providence watches over the bold.