How many tragic deaths, like that of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, are we willing to tolerate before enough is enough? How does this keep happening? 
 
Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University Chicago, was fatally shot on March 19th while walking with friends near the school&#8217;s Lake Shore campus by an illegal alien criminal from Venezuela. The group was walking to see the northern lights when a masked gunman emerged from the shadows and opened fire. 
 
The suspect, Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national, has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
Why does such a heinous tragedy happen?
The Department of Homeland Security put it bluntly: Sheridan Gorman &#8220;was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who released this illegal alien twice before he went on to commit this heinous murder.&#8221;
While most cities and states are working to undo the disastrous policies of the Biden administration that allowed tens of millions of illegal aliens into the country, certain blue cities are vehemently resisting anything the Trump administration does. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are spearheading this &#8220;resistance&#8221; — and actively making life not only worse for their constituents, but dangerous. 
 
Here are a few of the ways Chicago created the perfect storm that ultimately led to Gorman&#8217;s death.
On a municipal level, Johnson and his cadre of progressives enacted the Welcoming City Ordinance — Chicago&#8217;s primary sanctuary law, which was expanded in 2021 to remove previous &#8220;carve-outs&#8221; that had allowed police to cooperate with ICE in cases involving individuals with felony convictions or those in the gang database. Essentially, police are barred from assisting ICE during operations, ICE agents aren&#8217;t permitted in local jails, and officers are prohibited from asking about a person&#8217;s immigration status during routine interactions.
To make matters worse for citizens — and better for criminals — Mayor Johnson issued an order preventing ICE from using city-owned parking lots, garages, or any other city property for enforcement work.
On a state level, the TRUST Act prohibits state and local law enforcement from detaining any individual based on a federal immigration detainer or administrative warrant. In other words, it&#8217;s nearly impossible for ICE to do their job. 
 
Then there’s the Illinois Way Forward Act (2021), which significantly expanded the TRUST Act by prohibiting state and local government from contracting the federal government to house or detain illegal immigrants, banning local police from transferring individuals into ICE custody without a judicial warrant, and restricting the flow of information to ICE officers about individuals in local custody.
And of course, they signed the Keep Illinois Families Together Act, which restricts ICE from entering schools, health centers, libraries, courthouses, polling locations (strange, considering the leftist claim that noncitizens aren&#8217;t voting), and more.
Those are policies carved out specifically for illegal aliens. But to understand exactly how a criminal, an illegal Venezuelan national, ended up murdering a young American girl, you only need to look at Medina&#8217;s timeline. 
 
Medina entered the U.S. illegally in May of 2023 under Biden. He was apprehended and released into the interior of the country without asylum claims. Just one month later, he was arrested in Chicago for shoplifting — and released from local custody shortly after, because of the very policies listed above. 
 
In September of that same year, he failed to appear for his court date. A warrant was issued but never served. He claims he missed the hearing due to a hospital stay — which means he was receiving free healthcare as an illegal criminal. 
 
And then, not even three years later, he murdered Sheridan Gorman in cold blood. 
 
Medina was a symptom, not an anomaly. Since January 20, 2025 alone, Governor Pritzker&#8217;s sanctuary state of Illinois has released 1,768 criminal illegal aliens with active ICE detainers — including individuals charged or convicted of murder, sexual offenses, and weapons crimes. Another 4,015 criminal non-citizens remain in Illinois custody with detainers that local officials refuse to — or aren&#8217;t allowed to — honor.
If you’re wondering how in the heck this could continue to go on? It will — because these Democrat leaders are tone deaf and are willing to trade their constituents&#8217; and our fellow citizens&#8217; safety for the comfort and protection of criminal illegal aliens. Even after Sheridan’s blood was spilled, Mayor Brandon Johnson doubled down. Just days after the murder, he proudly unveiled a new city snowplow named ‘Abolish ICE’ — while the city was still mourning an 18-year-old Loyola freshman gunned down by a man his policies had shielded.
Don&#8217;t let them tell you that sanctuary city policies aren&#8217;t dangerous or destructive. Because again and again, we&#8217;re being reminded — they are.

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Chicago’s Sanctuary Policies Allowed A Girl To Be Murdered In Cold Blood.

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Republican Senator Rick Scott is set to introduce legislation that would spell major financial losses for sanctuary cities and states, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Florida senator introduced the bill — dubbed the Unifying American Security Interests Act — to explicitly tie eligibility for federal grants to cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In order to secure the federal funds, cities would need to honor ICE detainers, conduct joint training with immigration officers, and commit to openly sharing information with federal authorities.
Along with the aforementioned bill, Scott introduced the Sanctuary Jurisdiction Event Security Enhancement Act, which bars sanctuary cities and states from receiving federal funding for event security through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Special Event Assessment Rating.
“Democrat politicians are putting illegal aliens first and the American people last, harboring criminals in sanctuary cities where they refuse to enforce our laws,&#8221; Scott said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.
&#8220;President Trump is doing his part by securing the border, now Congress must pass my bills to hold sanctuary cities and states accountable by withholding federal tax dollars until they cooperate with federal law enforcement,&#8221; Scott said.
President Donald Trump has previously threatened to cut federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions amid his mass deportation crackdown.
Trump accused sanctuary cities and states of doing &#8220;everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens,&#8221; adding that &#8220;it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-immigration-funds-sanctuary-cities-states-february-rcna253986" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC News.
The state of Virginia and its new Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger have drawn the ire of the Trump administration over recent crimes carried out by illegal immigrant offenders.
In the latest example, the Department of Homeland Security is begging local authorities in Fairfax County not to release an illegal immigrant accused of groping at least a dozen female students while he attended a local high school with them as an adult.
“This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls. He now faces nine counts of assault and battery. This is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s failed open border policies,” Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Monday regarding the case.
“We are calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians to NOT release this predator from jail back into our communities to assault more teenage women. Unfortunately, Governor Abigail Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE and is siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.”
The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office told The Daily Wire that they don’t “obstruct or prevent ICE from acting on their civil detainers,” but didn’t say whether they’d notify federal immigration officers ahead of the suspect&#8217;s eventual release.
“While it is still too early in the process to know the outcome of his case, ICE has been notified of Ortiz’s location at the ADC [Adult Detention Center], and they are able to execute their detainer by responding to the ADC and taking Ortiz into custody if and when he is ordered released,” the sheriff’s office said.

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New GOP Bills Would Withhold Federal Funds From Sanctuary Cities

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A 19-year-old illegal immigrant is accused of groping multiple girls while attending a high school in Virginia — and the Trump administration is now pressuring sanctuary officials in the state against releasing the alleged predator.
Roughly a dozen girls reported that Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz of El Salvador put his hands between their legs, groped their private areas, and moved his hands to their butts in the school&#8217;s hallways, <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/illegal-immigrant-student-groping-girls-fairfax-county-high-school-assault-battery-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC 7. He has since been charged with nine counts of assault and battery.
“There&#8217;s a group of about 12 individuals that have reported this assault,” one mother told ABC7. “It was all perpetrated by a single individual who is a stranger to the girls. He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs. It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months.”
Flores-Ortiz, an adult, is a junior at Fairfax High School, according to ABC 7. He crossed the border in 2024 and was subsequently released into the United States.
“This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls. He now faces nine counts of assault and battery. This is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s failed open border policies,” Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Monday.
“We are calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians to NOT release this predator from jail back into our communities to assault more teenage women. Unfortunately, Governor Abigail Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE and is siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.”
Spanberger&#8217;s office didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment.
The Fairfax County Sheriff&#8217;s Office told The Daily Wire they don&#8217;t &#8220;obstruct or prevent ICE from acting on their civil detainers,&#8221; but didn&#8217;t say whether they&#8217;d notify federal immigration officers of any future release.
&#8220;While it is still too early in the process to know the outcome of his case, ICE has been notified of Ortiz’s location at the ADC [Adult Detention Center], and they are able to execute their detainer by responding to the ADC and taking Ortiz into custody if and when he is ordered released,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.
Meanwhile, parents from the school have expressed outrage with what they describe as a cover-up of the gropings. The parents also said the school system told them they would allow the illegal immigrant to return to school upon his release.
“They have attempted to sweep it under the rug,” one mother told ABC7.
“They sent out a letter last night,&#8221; the mother said, adding, “But it was a completely sanitized letter.”
The school didn&#8217;t notify the parents of the gropings until two weeks after they were reported, ABC7 reported.
“After we demanded it, multiple parents demanded that there be a letter before we got it,” another mother said.
“The girls have experienced harassment and bullying from peers at school, including people that they once thought were their friends, and the letter that they sent out, referencing it only as buttocks touching, just adds fuel to rumors that they were just attention seeking,” one mother told ABC 7.
In a statement to ABC 7, Fairfax County Public Schools declined &#8220;to comment on specifics due to federal and state privacy laws,&#8221; adding &#8220;we prioritize student and staff safety and we fully investigate any time someone shares that an incident has occurred at school, or that they do not feel safe at school.&#8221;
&#8220;We are grateful to our law enforcement partners who continue to work swiftly and thoroughly when there are safety concerns in our schools. The safety of all FCPS students and staff remains a top priority,&#8221; the school system said.

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Feds Call Out Sanctuary Policies After Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Groping Multiple Girls

Feds Call Out Sanctuary Virginia After Illegal Immigrant Adult Groped Multiple Girls While At School

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The following is an edited transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/hosts/michael-knowles?elementPosition=4&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Hosts&amp;rowType=Hosts+Portrait+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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A Honduran national, deported four times from the United States, reportedly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiall5yi0wM">pushed</a> an elderly Air Force veteran onto the tracks of the New York City subway. You can <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/national/honduran-man-accused-of-shoving-2-onto-nyc-subway-tracks-was-deported-4-times-dhs/">read about it</a> in the local news, however, you&#8217;re not going to see a lot about it in the national news.
This guy was arrested last Tuesday for pushing two people: a 30-year-old man and an 83-year-old man onto the tracks. This was unprovoked. This guy is a serial criminal, a four-time deportee. According to the deputy assistant secretary of <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/12/four-time-deported-criminal-illegal-alien-15-prior-charges-arrested-after-shoving">DHS</a>, he should never have been able to walk our streets and harm innocent Americans.
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He’s probably going to get off the hook. Soon, he&#8217;ll be receiving various taxpayer subsidies and eating a dollar-a-slice pizza. He’s also probably living it up at the Roosevelt Hotel, where illegal aliens have been able to get better accommodations than most actual taxpaying New Yorkers for years now.
The reason this story matters is not that it&#8217;s shocking or surprising. It&#8217;s not “man bites dog.” This has been happening for a long time.
This is directly attributable to mayors and governors like Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul. Mamdani and Hochul and all the Democrat mayors and governors of sanctuary cities and states are aiding and abetting these crimes. They are actively encouraging these crimes because sanctuary cities and states refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, and they refuse to turn these criminals over to ICE.
According to the current policy in New York City, this guy — if he is sent to prison — will be allowed to get out and run free in the city afterward. When ICE shows up and says we want to pick this guy up and deport him for the fifth time, New York will say, No. We will not hand him over to you. We will protect the guy who threw the 83-year-old Air Force veteran onto the subway tracks, the guy with a rap sheet a mile long who has broken our laws countless times.
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At this point, the only way to stop him from doing it again is probably capital punishment. Yes, right now he wouldn&#8217;t get back into the country because President Trump closed the border. But the next time you get a Democrat president, he or she will once again make the border wide open. And this guy will walk back in.
These Democrat mayors and governors — Zohran Mamdani, Kathy Hochul, and the rest of them — are actively working with this guy. They have blood on their hands. Every woman these people light on fire in a subway car in New York, every throat these people slash, every crime these people commit is on their hands.
And that&#8217;s not hyperbole. They are very practically, very literally protecting these people from federal immigration enforcement. They are keeping them in the country, holding them tight when federal immigration enforcement tries to enforce the law.
Furthermore, we have to recognize something about illegal immigration: every single crime that illegal immigrants commit here is needless, gratuitous, and preventable. Every single one.
The libs like to say, Actually illegal aliens commit much less crime than the native-born population.
First of all, that isn’t true. Then they try to say illegal aliens commit less violent crime than the native-born population. You can make some arguments for that, but they’re pretty weak arguments — and it misses the point.
We have to deal with the crime that native-born Americans commit. That’s baked in. We don’t have an option. We can’t strip them of citizenship. But every single illegal immigrant who commits a crime here — whether it’s rape and murder or jaywalking and tax evasion — every single one of those crimes is preventable.
And therefore the people who fight tooth and nail to keep illegal immigrants in this country — even the convicted criminals, felons, and murderers — those people have blood on their hands.
That is why immigration is not an abstract policy debate. It is a question of responsibility.
And the American people should hold every single Democrat accountable for it.

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Air Force Vet, 83, Shoved Onto Subway Tracks — The Dem Policy Now Under Scrutiny

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A man accused of shoving two men, including an 83-year-old Air Force veteran, onto New York City subway tracks on Sunday is an illegal immigrant who was previously deported on four separate occasions.
Bairon Posada-Hernandez first entered the country on January 2, 2008, and was subsequently deported four different times, most recently in 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Thursday. He snuck into the country illegally a fifth time without getting caught.
The Honduran national also has a &#8220;lengthy&#8221; rap sheet of 15 prior charges, including simple assault, domestic violence, obstruction of police, possession of a weapon, drug possession, and aggravated assault, DHS said.
“Bairon Posada-Hernandez is a serial criminal and a four-time deported illegal alien from Honduras who should never have been able to walk our streets and harm innocent Americans,” Deputy Assistant Homeland Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Thursday.
“We are praying for the victims and their families. DHS is calling upon New York sanctuary politicians to commit to this ICE detainer and not release this heinous criminal back into New York communities,&#8221; Bis added.
Posada-Hernandez allegedly shoved the elderly veteran, who has since been identified as Richard Williams, and the 30-year-old man onto the tracks in an unprovoked attack late Sunday morning, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/migrant-accused-of-shoving-83-year-old-another-man-onto-subway-tracks-calmly-walked-away-after-crime-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post. The illegal immigrant then fled the scene before passersby saved the two men from getting hit by the next subway train.
Disturbing cellphone footage of the attack obtained by the New York Post showed Posada-Hernandez calmly walking away.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer on March 10, requesting that local authorities hand Posada-Hernandez over to the feds, according to DHS.
Local authorities are not expected to comply due to sanctuary laws.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, doubled down on those policies with an executive order last month.
More than 7,110 illegal immigrants were in local law enforcement custody across the state of New York in February with ICE detainers, according to DHS. The inmates account for 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 dangerous drugs offenses, 152 weapons offenses, and 260 sexual predatory offenses.
Authorities arrested Posada-Hernandez around 5 a.m. on Tuesday at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, according to the New York Post. He is now charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault, and reckless endangerment.
Williams is still clinging to life at a local hospital, the New York Post reported.
“My father, Richard, is on a respirator in the ICU in the hospital. That’s all we are going to say,” one of Williams’ daughters told the outlet Tuesday.

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Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Shoving Air Force Veteran Onto Subway Tracks Was Deported Four Times

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Local authorities in Pennsylvania released an illegal immigrant charged with rape while he was training to become a corrections officer.
Ibrahim George Kallon, who hails from Sierra Leone, had been living in the United States illegally since 2024, when his visitor visa expired, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In recent years, he also worked security for the president and first lady of his native Sierra Leone, his former colleague told The Daily Wire. A photo posted to Kallon&#8217;s Facebook appears to show him with the leaders of the West African nation.
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ICE had lodged a detainer with the Delaware County Prison in Thornton, Pennsylvania, but he was released on bail on Feb. 5, according to the agency and court records. The court only required that he pay $1 of his $100,000 bond, which was earlier lowered from its original $250,000.
Federal immigration officers were then forced to hunt Kallon down in the community and arrest him on Feb. 11, ICE said.
&#8220;If the county won’t protect its own residents, we’ll do it for them,&#8221; ICE <a href="https://x.com/ICEgov/status/2027384543498457512?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an X post Friday detailing the arrest.
Delaware County asserts on its <a href="https://delcopa.gov/publicrelations/2024/immigrationpolicies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> that it &#8220;is not, and has never been, a sanctuary county.&#8221;
&#8220;We are unsure why people believe or state that Delaware County is a sanctuary county since the County has never taken any actions or votes to declare itself a sanctuary county. In addition, we are in full compliance with all state and federal laws regarding immigration,&#8221; the county&#8217;s website reads.
Kallon faces charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, false imprisonment, and indecent assault, according to ICE.
In recent months, ICE has caught several illegal immigrants who were either training or had already joined law enforcement in multiple states.
ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-orleans-police-recruit-turns-out-to-be-illegal-immigrant-fraudster">arrested</a> alleged fraudster Larry Temah, 46, who hails from Cameroon and was hired by the New Orleans Police Department in June. Temah, who had a deportation order, was just one week away from graduating from the New Orleans Police Department academy when he was nabbed.
In October, ICE <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-cop-previously-nabbed-by-ice-returns-to-work-for-illinois-police-department">arrested</a> Radule Bojovic, an illegal immigrant from Montenegro, who was working as an officer with the Hanover Police Department. He was later granted bond by an immigration judge and returned to work with the department in December.
Bojovic overstayed a tourist visa that required him to leave the country on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security previously said.
Federal authorities arrested alleged “serial immigration fraudster,” 45-year-old Morris Brown of Liberia, in January after he went AWOL from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and pretended to be an American citizen to become a Minnesota corrections officer, <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/serial-immigration-fraudster-working-as-a-minnesota-corrections-officer-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Federal authorities labeled him as a “serial fraudster&#8221; who had “multiple violations of U.S. immigration law, including overstaying his student visa and making false claims to U.S. citizenship.”

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Local Authorities Released An Illegal Immigrant Training To Be Cop. He Was Just Accused Of Rape.

Sanctuary Authorities Release Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Rape While Training To Be A Cop

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Sanctuary authorities in Connecticut released an illegal immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and enticing minors online, forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track him down in the community after officials declined to honor a detainer request, The Daily Wire has learned.
Ecuadorian national Christian Espinosa-Sarango, who is in the country illegally, was charged on December 19, 2025, in North Haven, Connecticut, with sexual assault, illegal sexual contact with a child, and enticing minors with a computer, according to the Department of Homeland Security. ICE lodged a detainer request on December 23 with local law enforcement, demanding that they notify federal immigration agents before he&#8217;s scheduled for release.
But local authorities did not comply and released him from jail on a $150,000 bond &#8220;onto Connecticut&#8217;s streets,&#8221; DHS said.
Espinosa-Sarango communicated with an undercover agent he believed was the aunt of a 13-year-old girl, <a href="https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/13/ice-agents-smash-car-window-detain-fair-havener-before-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New Haven Independent, citing an affidavit. When he found out the girl&#8217;s age, he allegedly began asking for photos and sex.
The undercover agent agreed and instructed him to come to a local hotel with condoms and $120, according to the local news outlet.
On December 19, he allegedly arrived at the hotel room with three condoms and $120 cash and was immediately arrested after knocking on the door.
Espinosa-Sarango claimed he went to the hotel to &#8220;save&#8221; the girl, but said he did not want to contact police until he saw her first, according to the local report.
ICE officers located Espinosa-Sarango on February 13, DHS said, and he allegedly resisted arrest. According to DHS, he attempted to flee in his vehicle and refused to roll down his window, forcing officers to break it to take him into custody.
DHS is blaming Connecticut&#8217;s sanctuary policies, arguing that restrictions on cooperation with ICE prevented local authorities from honoring the detainer request and allowed Espinosa-Sarango&#8217;s release.
“These are the types of monsters Connecticut sanctuary politicians are releasing from their jails and onto the streets to perpetuate more crimes against children,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
“We need local law enforcement to cooperate with us to get these heinous criminals out of our neighborhoods. Seven of the 10 safest cities in the United States cooperate with ICE. This is a perfect example of why sanctuary policies make Americans less safe. Thankfully, because of our brave ICE agents, Christian Espinosa-Sarango, a pedophile, will never walk American streets again. Sanctuary politicians must stop releasing pedophiles, murderers, rapists, and kidnappers into our neighborhoods,&#8221; McLaughlin added.
Lawmakers in Connecticut amended the state&#8217;s sanctuary law this year in response to the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation effort, allowing illegal immigrants to sue local police agencies that communicate with ICE, <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-09-03/updates-ct-trust-act-october-what-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WNPR.
The law was also expanded to allow local officers to comply with ICE if it involves cases of sexual assault, burglary with a firearm, and injury or risk of injury to a child, the report said.

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ICED OUT: Sanctuary Release Of Illegal Immigrant ‘Pedophile’ Backfires

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The severe winter weather sweeping across the Northeast pushed New York’s homeless death toll to nineteen on Thursday. New York City mayoral candidate and long time New Yorker, Curtis Sliwa, attributes the crisis to the city&#8217;s status as a &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdiction for illegal aliens — and says he’s “never seen it worse.” 
The massive influx of illegals during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s term — a fair number of whom were transported to sanctuary cities — put a strain on the already limited resources available to house the city&#8217;s homeless population, and Sliwa argued that has brought the crisis to a breaking point.
“I’m watching emotionally disturbed persons and homeless people exhibit Darwinian traits. Survival of the fittest,” Sliwa said. He described encountering a homeless man with no shoes who was missing half of his foot. The man told Sliwa that both his shoes, including the one specially made for his disability, had been stolen by the “stronger” homeless. Sliwa told the Daily Wire he and his nonprofit the Guardian Angels have encountered many grim scenarios while attempting to help the homeless through the winter spell.  
Sliwa said the crisis did not begin with the election of New York&#8217;s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but with the previous administration under Democrat Eric Adams. “A lot of this is the result of Eric Adams&#8217; failures as mayor, in which he housed a lot of the migrants, at the expense of our own homeless,” he said. “They spent $7 billion housing migrants that we didn&#8217;t even know in hotels, motels, giving them lodging, food, clothing. Okay. But we weren&#8217;t doing likewise with our own homeless and more importantly, the emotionally disturbed who should have been brought to mental health care hospitals because they clearly are a danger to themselves and everyone else.” 
In fiscal years 2024 and 2025, New York city spent $6.77 billion on funding for people seeking asylum in the United States. Financial support ranged from housing in shelters and New York hotels, prepaid debit cards to families in hotel-based, non-congregate shelters for food, legal and medical services, and relocation assistance. 
Sliwa says it’s New York’s homeless who end up paying the price. “Now we’re beginning to pay the price that our own homeless, who are out on their own for many months, many years as a result of the priority being the migrants.”
However, Sliwa did not entirely excuse Mamdani.  “I don’t see any of the homeless outreach workers that the mayor keeps talking about,” he said. 
Mamdani’s critics however argue  the newly appointed mayor’s end to end encampment sweeps has contributed to the rising death toll. Brian Stettin, a senior adviser in the Adams’ administration, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/mamdani-wont-budge-on-involuntary-removal-of-homeless-new-yorkers-from-streets-as-cold-deaths-reach-18/">told</a> the New York Post, “When a person is in imminent danger, there is no debate. Whatever ideological divides we should not have any impact on these policies during a ‘Code Blue.’” 
Sliwa added that his organization&#8217;s hands are tied. “We’re just citizens,” he said, noting the Guardian Angels cannot carry out involuntary removals to bring people indoors. “That has to be done by the city, the police department, and other agencies—but they’re just not doing that.”

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He snuck across the border illegally and went undetected. Then, he went on to allegedly rape three young children in Asheville, North Carolina, authorities said.
Now, federal immigration authorities are begging sanctuary officials to hand Mexican illegal immigrant Juan Ramon Juarez-Talamantes, 29, over to ICE before he has the opportunity to continue on with his violent rampage, The Daily Wire has learned.
“This depraved sicko is charged with raping three children. This criminal illegal alien has no place in American communities,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire on Tuesday.
“We are calling on Asheville sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this pedophile back into our communities to prey on more innocent children. If politicians allow state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, we can get criminals like this out of our country,&#8221; McLaughlin said.
Juarez-Talamantes was charged in November with two counts of statutory rape involving a child at least 13, 14, or 15 years of age, the Buncombe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile/100064864381225/search/?q=Talamantes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a recent press release. He was charged again last month for an incident involving a third victim.
Detectives first learned of Juarez-Talamantes&#8217; alleged crimes in July 2024 after receiving a report of a rape involving a child lured by a man named &#8220;Juan&#8221; on Snapchat, <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/27/asheville-man-arrested-child-rape-charges-ice-detainer/88359420007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Asheville Citizen Times.
The child and their friend met up with the man in his car before going to his house, according to the local report.
The child told detectives that the man kissed the child. When he attempted to &#8220;take it further,&#8221; the child told him &#8220;no.&#8221;
&#8220;He slapped (the child) on the face and proceeded to rape (the child),&#8221; according to the report.
The Asheville Police Department also received a similar report in September 2025.
The two agencies collaborated to confirm that Juarez-Talamantes was allegedly tied to both cases. Authorities later connected him to the third incident.
“We are very thankful for the partnership with the Asheville Police Department during this case and the tedious work and collaboration of the investigators to reach this result. These cases demonstrate the power community partnerships play in resolving problems for citizens of Buncombe County,&#8221; Buncombe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office District 2 Captain Chris Stockton said in a recent statement.
&#8220;Our hearts go out to those whose lives have been forever changed by these events and hope that the effort of these passionate investigators opens a door to healing,&#8221; Stockton said.
In May, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/sanctuary-policies-mecklenburg-and-buncombe-county-sheriffs-are-reckless-and-pose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified</a> Buncombe County as a sanctuary jurisdiction for refusing to honor ICE detainers. The county was later taken off the list after Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller called the label &#8220;inaccurate,&#8221; according to ABC13.
Miller asserted that his office adheres to a state law that forces police to honor ICE detainers, known as House Bill 10. However, the law only mandates sheriffs to honor detainers in instances where they have a judicial warrant, which isn&#8217;t the standard in federal immigration cases, <a href="https://www.wunc.org/race-class-communities/2024-11-25/immigration-enforcement-house-bill-10-north-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WUNC.
Before the legislation passed, Miller refused to honor ICE detainers and previously ended his office&#8217;s participation in the federal 287(g) program, where local officers help with immigration enforcement.
&#8220;Since the passage of House Bill 10, we&#8217;ve had 15 detainees that we&#8217;ve contacted ICE about, one of which is still in our custody, and we&#8217;ve just released one to ICE,&#8221; Miller said in a June 4 video.
&#8220;Before House Bill 10 became law, I did not honor ICE detainers. The reason I didn&#8217;t honor detainers at that time was because they were not signed by a judge and therefore not a valid court document to hold a detainee who otherwise would be eligible for release,&#8221; he said.
Last year, Miller said: &#8220;I have repeatedly spoken out against cooperation with ICE, saying federal immigration law is not the responsibility of local officers and damages law enforcement’s trust within the immigrant community.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the sheriff&#8217;s office didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether they would honor the ICE detainer.

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President Donald Trump seemed to signal a major change in his approach to federal immigration raids during an interview with NBC News that aired on Wednesday.
When looking at the next cities to send federal immigration agents, Trump said he&#8217;s not going to take the approach of thrusting ICE on areas that don&#8217;t want officers there.
&#8220;I say they have to ask, and they have to say please,&#8221; Trump told NBC News&#8217; Tom Llamas, referring to mayors and governors.
&#8220;I don’t wanna go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana. He said, &#8216;We have a big problem. Could you go in and help us with,'&#8221; Trump said.
There are five new cities Trump has set his sights on for the next immigration raids, he said while declining to disclose the locations.
&#8220;We have five cities that we’re looking at very strongly, but we want to be invited,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;We’ll be announcing them very quickly. But— we could do something. As an example, I was called by people. San Francisco said, &#8216;Please, we have a Democrat mayor. He’s trying very hard. Would you&#8217;— friends of mine that live there. It’s got crime problems. &#8216;Would you let him do the job and not come in? Let’s see how it works.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Look, I can do it much quicker, much faster.&#8217; Don’t forget, we remove criminals. We took over 2,000 hard-core criminals out of Washington, D.C.,&#8221; he added.
The White House has since come out to clarify that the president&#8217;s statements had &#8220;nothing to do with mass deportations&#8221; and were in reference to general crime crackdowns involving National Guard.
&#8220;Total Fake News BS. President Trump is talking about National Guard deployments for crime reduction — like the highly successful operations in New Orleans, Memphis, D.C., etc., that were welcomed by their leaders,&#8221; the White House <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2019450288403366298?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X Thursday.
Llamas had asked him: &#8220;So I wanna be clear ‘cause it sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement here, that there’s gonna be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on helping cities remove criminals: &#8220;Well, one thing I say to my people&#8230; I say, &#8216;They have to ask, and they have to say please.'&#8221;
NBC: &#8220;Who has to ask, and who has to say please?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;The mayor or the governor.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/E7blNlEDJi">pic.twitter.com/E7blNlEDJi</a>
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration has focused its immigration efforts recently on Minneapolis following the fatal shootings of two anti-ICE activists.
Political leaders in Minnesota have demanded that federal immigration authorities leave the state.
Trump recently sent border czar Tom Homan to the Twin Cities to take command of immigration raids there. Homan announced Wednesday that he brokered an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; deal with local sheriffs, who have agreed to allow ICE into their jails to take custody of illegal immigrant inmates before they&#8217;re set to be released.
In exchange, Homan said there would be a &#8220;drawdown&#8221; of 700 federal immigration agents who would &#8220;immediately&#8221; leave Minneapolis.
The decision to send Homan to Minneapolis signaled a change in Trump&#8217;s approach to immigration raids. Homan replaced Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who was known for his aggressive tactics, has since returned to his post leading agents in the El Centro sector of the California border.
During his interview with NBC News, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-mass-deportation-campaign-could-use-softer-touch-after-minneapolis-shootings?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Mass+Deportation+Campaign+Could+Use+%E2%80%98Softer+Touch%E2%80%99+After+Minneapolis+Shootings">Trump acknowledged</a> that his immigration enforcement efforts could use a “softer touch” following the recent deadly shootings.

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A controversial new bill in Illinois would ban federal immigration agents hired under the Trump administration from ever working as local police in the sanctuary state.
Democratic Illinois State Senator Laura Fine, who is also running for Congress, introduced the <a href="https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18&amp;DocNum=2820&amp;DocTypeID=SB&amp;LegId=0&amp;SessionID=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> after the two recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving federal immigration authorities. Fine called the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti &#8220;a glass break moment,&#8221; adding, &#8220;enough is enough.&#8221;
&#8220;It is blatantly obvious that ICE officers are not going through extensive training. Hiring ICE agents for our local and state police force is not a priority, keeping our communities safe is. And my bill aims to do just that,&#8221; Fine said in a separate post.
&#8220;The message is simple: If you enabled the cruelty of the Trump administration, you don’t get to wear a badge in Illinois,&#8221; she earlier said.
The bill lays out &#8220;that a law enforcement agency may not hire &#8230; any person who was hired as a federal immigration officer by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between January 20, 2025 and January 20, 2029.&#8221;
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I’m headed to Springfield to urge my colleagues to support my bill banning Trump’s unqualified ICE hires from ever serving in state and local law enforcement in Illinois. Enough is enough. I’m doing this for the safety of all Illinoisans. In Congress, I will continue to fight to… <a href="https://t.co/rd5OMfFlj8">pic.twitter.com/rd5OMfFlj8</a>
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The Department of Homeland Security hit back at Fine&#8217;s proposal, with Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin telling The Daily Wire that the Democratic lawmaker is wrongly villainizing ICE agents who are taking criminal illegal immigrants off the streets after they were released under sanctuary policies.
“Illinois sanctuary politicians are falsely casting federal law enforcement as villains while ICE officers are being targeted, threatened, and doxxed simply for doing their jobs and enforcing our nation’s laws. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is held to the highest professional standard and officers regularly receive ongoing training,&#8221; McLaughlin said.
&#8220;As our brave law enforcement arrests and removes dangerous criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and gang members from our communities, America can be proud of the professionalism our officers bring to the job day-in and day-out. Instead of working with us, Illinois sanctuary politicians RELEASE violent criminals from their jails directly back into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims,&#8221; she added.
Since January 20, Illinois authorities have released 1,768 criminal illegal immigrants who account for 5 homicides, 141 assaults, 23 burglaries, 4 robberies, 24 drug offenses, 15 weapons offenses, and 10 sexual predatory offenses, according to McLaughlin.
There are 4,015 illegal immigrants in Illinois with ICE detainer requests for a transfer to federal custody. Those targets account for 51 homicides, 1,134 assaults, 107 burglaries, 36 robberies, 275 dangerous drugs offenses, 120 weapons offenses, and 813 sexual predatory offenses.
The sanctuary state currently allows noncitizens to serve as police officers. ICE nabbed an illegal immigrant from Montenegro in October who was working as a police officer for the Hanover Police Department in Illinois.
A judge subsequently granted his immigration bond, leading the police department to bring him back on.

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President Donald Trump issued a strong warning to Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday morning after the mayor doubled down on refusing to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
After speaking with Trump by phone on Monday and meeting with border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday, Frey <a href="https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2016241048209518736">said</a> Minneapolis would not cooperate in enforcing federal immigration laws. Trump blasted the mayor over the remark, which he called &#8220;a very serious violation of the Law.&#8221;
&#8220;Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, &#8216;Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws.&#8217; This is after having had a very good conversation with him,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115972940749866695">wrote</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!&#8221;
Frey <a href="https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2016517831538446802">shot back</a> at Trump on Wednesday morning, saying, &#8220;The job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce fed immigration laws. I want them preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad who contributes to [Minneapolis] &amp; is from Ecuador. It’s similar to the policy your guy Rudy [Giuliani] had in NYC. Everyone should feel safe calling 911.&#8221;
Democrat-run Minneapolis has long been considered a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; as it has enacted laws limiting how local authorities can work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Minneapolis revised its &#8220;<a href="https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/FileV2/52757/Revised%20Separation%20Ordinance.pdf">separation ordinance</a>&#8221; in December to state that the city would &#8220;vigorously oppose any effort to require the use of city resources for the enforcement of civil federal immigration laws.&#8221; The revised ordinance also states that city property and facilities cannot be used to enforce federal immigration laws.
Frey met with Homan in Minneapolis on Tuesday as more chaos has erupted in the city after Border Patrol shot and killed anti-ICE demonstrator Alex Pretti during a confrontation. Frey said he &#8220;shared with Mr. Homan the serious negative impacts&#8221; of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, &#8220;as well as the strain it has placed on our local police officers.&#8221;
&#8220;I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws, and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe,&#8221; Frey added. &#8220;City leaders will continue to stay in conversation with Mr. Homan and his team.&#8221;
Trump sent Homan to Minneapolis in a shift in strategy on the enforcement operation there as the administration faces criticism for its response to the shooting death of Pretti. The move effectively sidelined Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&#8217;s role there, and Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino, who had been leading the Minneapolis deployment, was reassigned.
&#8220;I don’t think it&#8217;s a pullback, it&#8217;s a little bit of a change,&#8221; Trump told Fox News host Will Cain. &#8220;Everybody in this room that has a business, you make little changes.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, Bovino is very good, but he&#8217;s pretty out-there kind of a guy. In some cases, that&#8217;s good. Maybe it wasn&#8217;t good here,&#8221; he added.
Both Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that they made progress in their talks with the Trump administration after Homan arrived in Minneapolis, but the Democratic leaders continue to call for federal immigration agents to leave the city and the surrounding area.
&#8220;Tom Homan&#8217;s a professional, which is a lot more than Bovino and Kristi Noem,&#8221; Walz <a href="https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2016518629433471339">told</a> CNN on Tuesday night. &#8220;But look, I think the thing we said is we&#8217;re very clear about this: we need these folks out of Minnesota and we need justice for Renee Good and for Alex [Pretti].&#8221;

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