A top Illinois Democrat is calling for the deportation of an illegal alien accused of killing a Loyola University Chicago student.
Comptroller Susana Mendoza thanked law enforcement for arresting and charging Jose Medina-Medina with the early morning murder of Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman. Medina reportedly shot and killed Gorman on a beach in the Rogers Park neighborhood last Thursday, March 19.
Over the past several days, news broke that police had not only apprehended the suspect but that he is here illegally from Venezuela and had previously been let free despite a shoplifting accusation. The Biden administration let Medina into the country in 2023, free to roam around and commit crimes.
Mendoza said Gorman deserves justice and that her accused killer should be deported.
“This sweet young Loyola freshman had a whole life ahead of her,” she wrote on X. “Sheridan deserves justice.”
“Let it begin this morning in the courtroom,” Mendoza wrote.
“Hold him. Prosecute him. Deport him to prison in El Salvador,” she urged officials.
The killing has attracted national attention as Republicans highlight the damage done by the lax immigration policies of President Joe Biden.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, meanwhile, has chosen to blame Trump and a lack of “comprehensive immigration reform,” of all things, for the senseless murder.
“I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily,” Pritzker said, according to Fox 32.
“I agree. There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois,” Pritzker, who has established Illinois as a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens, told a reporter.
“There [are] 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,” the governor claimed.
His comments contradict a statement from his press office (which itself was a contradiction) that called on Trump to stop “politicizing” the murder.
“The Trump Administration needs to stop politicizing heinous tragedies and instead focus on real solutions, like reinstating federal funds to prevent violence that support our public safety efforts,” the Democratic governor’s office told NewsNation.
Medina reportedly has a detention hearing on Friday. Court proceedings have been slowed because the accused murdered has tuberculosis.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a detainer, asking local officials not to release Medina.
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