President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor’s open border policies for the murder of 18-year-old college student Sheridan Gorman.
Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University, was fatally gunned down in the early morning hours on Thursday while walking with friends near the pier at Loyola Beach in Chicago.
José Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan man who illegally entered the country in May 2023, is now facing felony charges of first-degree murder and aggravated use of a firearm in connection with her death.
‘Less than one week ago, a precious 18-year-old college student named Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed while walking in a park, innocently,’ the president said at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner in DC.
‘The illegal alien monster charged with Sheridan’s murder had come illegally from Venezuela and had been released into our country by Sleepy Joe Biden,’ he continued, calling his predecessor ‘pathetic’ and the ‘worst president.’
He then went on to note that Medina-Media ‘was then arrested again and released again by the Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, one of the worst governors in the history of our country, in the sanctuary city of Chicago.’
‘Democrats politicians don’t care about the American blood they spill in their very demented pursuit of these open borders,’ Trump then argued, before vowing that Republicans would end sanctuary policies.
Medina-Medina had been apprehended by US Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, but was released into the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Just over a month later, on June 19, 2023, he was arrested in Chicago for allegedly shoplifting $132 worth of merchandise from a Macy’s and was once again released.
President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor’s open border policies for the death of a Chicago college student during his speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner on Wednesday
Sheridan Gorman (left) was fatally gunned down on Thursday morning while walking with her friends near the pier at Loyola Beach. José Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan man who illegally entered the country in May 2023, is now facing felony charges of first-degree murder and aggravated use of a firearm for Gorman’s death
Court records show he failed to appear for subsequent hearings, leading a judge to issue a warrant for his arrest. He was never apprehended on that warrant.
The president has previously called Gorman’s death ‘devastating.’
‘These people were let in by Biden,’ Trump told reporters on Monday.
‘We’re getting them out. We’re getting them out fast. That’s why ICE is so important. They’re doing such a good job.’
But Governor Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have placed the blame back on Trump for failing to introduce comprehensive immigration reform.
‘This has been a terrible tragedy, and I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily,’ Pritzker said.
‘There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. They’re 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.’
‘And in my view, we have a lot of work that we need to continue to do,’ he added.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker admitted there’s been ‘real failures’ in the US immigration system and that all levels of government need to continue work to fix it
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
