‘Law and order’ is not an abstract political slogan. Without that you don’t have a civilized society. When law and order collapses, it’s the innocent who pay the price first, whether they live on the South Side, Rogers Park, or anywhere else in Chicago we call home. Without that we have no community. We have fear and chaos. Without it we have no justice. There is death and, in some cases, retribution.
I continue my Walk Across America. I wasn’t in Chicago when I heard the news that 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University freshman from New York, was shot in cold blood. The man accused of killing her is Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan citizen who entered our country illegally in 2023. He was previously arrested for shoplifting, and yet he was released onto the streets because our sanctuary policy favors illegal immigrants over law-abiding citizens.
This death comes one year after the senseless death of Katie Abraham in Urbana, Illinois. That 20-year-old girl was sitting in the back of a car at a red light in the middle of the night when a truck driven by an illegal immigrant crashed into her at 80 miles per hour. For over a year, I watched her courageous father, Joe Abraham, do everything he could to warn elected officials that their policies in the sanctuary city would lead to the deaths of even more innocents.
They ignored him. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker ignored him. They all ignored him.
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They valued the white guilt they believed they gained by allowing illegal immigrants into their city, unchecked and unassimilated. They didn’t care about Katie.
And now Sheridan is dead.
To the families of Katie Abraham and Sheridan Gorman, my heart breaks with yours. I pray for you and stand by your side.
This is not an isolated heartbreak. This is the fruit of a city and a nation that has allowed lawlessness to fester.
We’ve been dealing with it on the South Side for years: open-air drug markets, gang shootouts that turn playgrounds into war zones, and politicians lecturing us about “equality” while the death toll rises. We saw certain criminals being coddled, released and protected, while the black families who tried to raise children in peace paid the ultimate price. Now that same plague of lawlessness has spread. The same lack of order that destroyed so many black neighborhoods is now claiming the lives of other Chicagoans, young people of all backgrounds who simply wanted to walk along our city’s lake without fear of the fatal shock of a bullet.
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What started as a crisis in our Black communities is now a citywide epidemic, proving once again that bad policy has no respect for zip codes or skin color. Every Chicagoan deserves a city where police have power, boundaries are respected, and criminals are put in jail instead of released.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, center, is flanked by Cook County Chairman Toni Preckwinkle, left, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, right. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images)
That’s exactly why I still walk these streets and why I’m pouring my life into building our Project HOPE community center on the South Side. I’m not building a new warehouse for excuses or government subsidies. I am building a place where young people learn the God-given value of work, responsibility and respect for the law.
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I want to welcome free thinkers who understand that security is not optional and that no community can thrive if certain criminals are placed above the citizens they prey on. American principles demand equal justice under the law, no justice for some and leniency for others based on political correctness.
To the families of Katie Abraham and Sheridan Gorman, my heart breaks with yours. I pray for you and stand by your side. And to every leader in my city of Chicago who still defends this sanctuary policy while our streets are soaked in blood, I say: Repent.
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Put citizens first. Enforce the law without apology. Because until we do that, the next victim could be one of our children, walking down the street at any time.
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