It\u2019s time to ask some serious questions.<\/span><\/p>\n When you get to the airport next week \u2014 a record 171 million of us will get on a plane this spring. Will you be safe?<\/span><\/p>\n When you look at the southern border or when you read about Sheridan Gorman, 18 years old, shot in the head while going out for a walk with friends to see the Northern Lights, do you feel safe?<\/span><\/p>\n You may even be reading this in line at an airport right now, probably waiting for hours if you are. That is because Democrats decided to shut down funding for the Department of Homeland Security in order to punish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u2014 which is a part of DHS \u2014 for enforcing the law.<\/span><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t matter that ICE\u2019s legal authority has not changed for decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t matter that under President Trump, they\u2019re simply doing their job for the first time in decades. DHS must be closed down because ICE is doing their job.<\/span><\/p>\n Democrats don\u2019t want to enforce the border. If they get the chance, they\u2019ll return to Biden-era open borders as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old student at Loyola University in Chicago, was <\/span>murdered<\/span><\/a> by a masked man while she was walking in Rogers Park last Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n According to <\/span>CBS News<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n The shooting happened early last Thursday as Gorman, 18, was walking with her friends near the pier at Tobey Prinz Beach at Pratt Boulevard to take in the Chicago skyline. Prosecutors said, as Gorman and her friends were walking toward the lighthouse at the end of the pier shortly after 1 a.m., Gorman told her friends she saw someone hiding behind the lighthouse. When Medina came out from behind the lighthouse, Gorman and her friends ran away, and Medina shot Gorman in the back. The bullet exited her neck.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The alleged murderer was a Venezuelan national in the United States illegally, according to the New York Times. Medina was released into the United States by the Biden administration in May 2023 after he had contact with Border Patrol agents. According to federal officials, Medina was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting in Chicago in June 2023, and then released.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gigantic shock.<\/span><\/p>\n You might ask yourself: If someone is arrested for shoplifting and they are an illegal immigrant, why are they still here?<\/span><\/p>\n The answer, of course, is that Chicago is a sanctuary city. That means that the city and state of Illinois, a Democratic state, prevent local officials from cooperating with federal law enforcement. That is why Medina was free to allegedly commit a cold-blooded murder.<\/span><\/p>\n If local law enforcement had notified ICE that they\u2019d arrested an illegal immigrant and then held him until ICE arrived, Gorman would probably still be alive. Republicans up to and including President Trump have <\/span>pointed out<\/span><\/a> that simple fact.<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Ted Cruz correctly <\/span>pointed out<\/span><\/a>, \u201cGorman\u2019s killer was an illegal alien who should never have been in our country. Joe Biden\u2019s open border policies and Governor Pritzker\u2019s refusal to accept President Trump\u2019s help are the reasons why she is not with us today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Correct.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n President Trump <\/span>said<\/span><\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s devastating. These people were let in by Biden. We\u2019re getting them out. We\u2019re getting them out fast. That\u2019s why ICE is so important. They\u2019re doing such a good job. This \u2026 this animal \u2014 I saw the whole thing last night, they gave me a briefing \u2014 came in through Joe Biden with his open door policy and his border czar Kamala, who never saw the border.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Democrats, however, are still making excuses. A Chicago alderman named Maria Hadden actually speculated it might have been <\/span>Gorman\u2019s<\/span><\/i> fault.<\/span><\/p>\n You see, when you get shot in the back of the head by an illegal immigrant who was hiding while you were out seeing the Northern Lights, it\u2019s possible that it\u2019s your fault for startling that illegal immigrant. It\u2019s like walking into an endangered species arena at the zoo or something. It\u2019s <\/span>your<\/span><\/i> fault if something bad happens to you.<\/span><\/p>\n She <\/span>said<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThen they go out on the pier, they walk around. So the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun. They might have startled this person at the end of the pier, unintentionally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Other Democrats, of course, are claiming that this is all happening because we incarcerate too many criminals.<\/span><\/p>\n This is the big Democratic move: It\u2019s been true for decades. The idea is that criminality happens because too many criminals are in jail. It\u2019s sort of like the argument that if you kill too many terrorists, you\u2019re just creating new terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n Which is weird because when you kill terrorists, then they\u2019re dead. The same thing is true of people who are in jail: When they\u2019re in jail<\/em>, you know what they\u2019re not doing?<\/span><\/p>\n![\"DailyWire+\"](\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171.webp\")
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