Guy Ciarrocchi: Democrats’ unserious politics are getting Americans killed
Sheridan Gorman was murdered in Chicago. An 18-year-old from Yorktown Heights, New York, majoring in business at Loyola University, she was murdered by an illegal immigrant: Jose Medina-Medina.
No, Sheridan was not at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was murdered while looking for the northern lights with her friends, by a thug who should have never been within 1000 miles of her.
Medina-Medina is yet another example of deeply misguided, irresponsible — deadly — Democratic policies foisted on innocent Americans. He was apprehended by the Civilian Border Patrol back on May 9, 2023, then released — part of the Biden/Harris “catch and release” policy.
He was arrested again in Chicago on June 19, 2023, for shoplifting. And again released — not turned over to ICE, CBP, or the FBI — courtesy the “sanctuary city” policies of the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago.
Medina-Medina murdered Sheridan. And the foolish, immoral, dangerous policies of today’s Democratic Party allowed, enabled, and contributed directly to her death.
Far too many Democratic elected officials are irresponsible, dangerously naïve teenagers who impose policies based on feelings and emotions — and their misguided sense of justice. They do not deal in reality. Actual human behavior and facts are ignored so that they might impose their cult-ideology on us.
On the heels of Sheridan’s tragic death and the chaos at our airports, Larry Krasner made yet another video threatening to arrest ICE agents — if they report to Philadelphia International Airport to help keep order and ensure everyone’s safety. The same Krasner who pontificated that he will “track down” ICE agents, like the Allied nations tracked down Nazi SS soldiers after World War II.
The crime-enabler disguised as a DA, who fired career prosecutors, essentially legalized shoplifting, instituted no cash bail allowing gun-toting thugs to get two, three, five strikes before maybe going to jail.
These are not serious people.
Until they grasp reality and recalibrate morality, they should never be allowed to serve in executive capacities — be it President, Governor, Mayor, or District Attorney.
Laken Riley. Mafalda Thayer. Victoria Eileen Harwell. Hallie Helgeson. Kayla Hamilton
Ruby Garcia. Lizbeth Medina. Rachel Morin. Jocelyn Nungaray. Jocelyn Toaquiz. Melody Waldecker. Mollie Tibbetts. Katie Abraham.
They died as a result of an intentional, designed policy of open borders. The Biden/Harris administration made a conscious decision to open our border — literally tearing down parts put in place during President Trump’s first term and going to court to prohibit Texas from building its own wall.
Open borders: allowing up to 20 million undocumented people into our nation, and into our communities. A naive, misguided, foolish sense of morality, violating their oaths of office. Violating common sense.
The party of “defund the police,” “catch and release,” “sanctuary cities,” and “no cash bail.”
They cannot be trusted with our safety because, frankly, that’s not their concern or focus. They aren’t trying to make us safe; they’re trying to “remake” America — to “fix” what they see as a bigoted, imperialist, patriarchal, elitist, capitalist and unjust society that needs its borders, its economy, its education, its energy policies and its national security broken and remade.
And if people have to die, get injured, or lose their jobs, or if our quality of life gets lowered in the process: so be it. They’ll deny it’s happening as long as they can. Then blame someone else. And when all else fails, throw our tax dollars at the problem.
Yet, tragically, Sheridan Gorman and all the others can’t be saved even with all the money in the world.
The “open borders” and “defund the police” crowd now wants to “defund ICE.” It’s why they’ve shut down part of our government; our TSA agents haven’t been paid — and our airports look like circuses.
ICE has successfully arrested and deported thousands of thugs — murderers, rapists, thieves and child predators — who should have never been in our country. But if Larry Krasner, Hakeem Jeffries, Tim Walz, and Zohran Mamdani had their way, those thugs would still be in our neighborhoods.
Their virtue-signaling governors, mayors and commissioners pass resolutions declaring “ICE-free zones.” Prohibit local police from assisting or protecting ICE agents— and, by extension private citizens.
Walz’s virtue-signaling — prohibiting Minnesota law enforcement from assisting, supporting or even creating a safe perimeter for ICE agents — caused a situation that led to the tragic deaths of Rene Good and Alex Preti. Confrontations and deaths are not happening in communities where police cooperate with ICE.
They oppose blocking people like Medina-Medina from getting into our nation. They oppose deporting people like him and the “Maryland Man”— here illegally, with a criminal record in his native El Salvador and a “PFA” here in our nation. Democrats visited him and fought to return him to America — like he was Nelson Mandela!
This isn’t about legal immigration — after all, the Ciarrocchi family did not come over on the Mayflower. Let’s discuss the training or use of ICE agents if you wish, or even the merits of the death penalty. But none of this madness is about that.
This is about the reckless, cult-like ideology that they want to impose regardless of the costs. Even if it kills 18-year-old students.
We cannot trust them to protect our nation, our communities, or our children.
These are serious times. And, tragically, these are not serious people.
Guy Ciarrocchi writes for Broad + Liberty and RealClear Pennsylvania. A Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, follow Guy at @PaSuburbsGuy.
