The grieving mother of Sheridan Gorman, the college freshman who was slain on the streets of Chicago by an illegal alien, cried with righteous fury as she excoriated woke Democrats who feigned outrage at her daughter’s slaughter and questioned them to their faces how many more parents like her had to demand action before Congress acted to protect American citizens.
For context, Sheridan Gorman was just eighteen years old and a freshman at Chicago’s Loyola University. In March of 2026, while walking with friends, she was shot in the neck by an illegal alien who entered the United States during former president Joe Biden’s treasonous open border policy. As her mom stated in her gut-wrenching testimony, Gorman staggered alone and afraid for forty feet before succumbing to the gunshot wound.
“My name is Jessica Gorman. I’m the mother of Sheridan Grace Gorman,” the angel mom stated during opening remarks in front of Congress. “Sheridan was 18 years old. She was a freshman at Loyola University Chicago. She was beautiful, she was funny, faithful, loving, full of plans to build something with her life. On March 19, Sheridan went with friends to the lakefront in Chicago because they hoped they might see the northern lights. She never saw those lights.”
“The man accused of murdering my daughter is Jose Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, who should not have even been in this country. And even after committing a crime and having an outstanding warrant, he was left on the streets of Chicago to murder my innocent American child,” she went on.
“But this story is not about him. The story is about my Sheridan. It’s about how failed border policies, sanctuary city laws, and twisted leaders refused to cooperate with ICE. They sent her to her grave. It’s about a government and politicians that forgot their first priority. And the question before this committee is painfully simple: When did protecting our American citizens stop being your first priority, and even more important, why did protecting our American citizens stop being your first priority?” she continued.
Later, she went directly after the indifferent politicians who supported open borders under Joe Biden and who are opposed to any deportation efforts by the current Trump administration “I want an explanation, I need one, and I deserve one, but first I want you to know who my Sheridan was. I want you to understand what we we all lost because of your mismatched priorities. My husband and I have always joked that our older daughter, Madeline, is our pride. Well, Sheridan was our joy from the moment she was born. Sheridan was pure energy, enthusiasm, laughter, fun. She was the kind of person who made every room brighter and usually a little louder,” she said.
“I challenge you all to sit down with me, take my hand, look me in the eye, and then explain to me, because I just don’t understand. Explain why people here illegally matter more than your American citizens. Explain why sanctions. Policies matter more than my Sheridan’s life. Explain why cooperation with ICE was too much to ask for, but asking our American parents to bury our children is somehow acceptable. Ask me,” she demanded.
“Today, I’m just asking this committee, this committee in our Congress and our country to choose her. She was worth protecting, she was worth saving, and she was worth your brave vote. To all of those who have supported us, who prayed for us, who have cried with us, and to those who have had the courage to speak out and say Sheridan’s name. Thank you. Because every time you say her name, you give a piece of her back to us. You remind the world that Sheridan was not a talking point, she wasn’t a statistic or a headline, she was our daughter. She will always be my sweet sunshine, and if the people who failed her would rather look away than I’m really than I’m asking the rest of you to look right at her. Here she is, there’s she and I, here she is.”
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