President Donald Trump on March 26 praised the National Guard troops stationed in Washington, saying he doesn’t want them to leave.
“I mean, maybe somebody later on will do it, but I never want to.”
“You know, people ... they say, ‘We feel so safe. We see these beautiful, strong people,’” Trump said. “And they’re so nice. They help, they open the doors for people, they carry bags, they pick up paper when they see paper in the ground.”
Their goal was to help combat crime and violence while supporting federal immigration law enforcement efforts there.
“That young lady would be alive today ... because we would have the National Guard in Chicago and in New York and in other places,” Trump said.
Trump tried to send troops to Chicago last year but his order was blocked by the Supreme Court.
“At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the high court majority wrote while explaining its ruling in December.
DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked Governor J.B. Pritzker and local politicians to not release Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan native, after Gorman’s death.
Medina-Medina was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol and released into the country under the Biden administration in May 2023. He was arrested for shoplifting and released again in 2023 in Chicago.
“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement on March 22.
