The sister of a student allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant criticized a group of left-wing activists for holding an anti-ICE protest in her hometown of Westchester County, describing it as a “wound reopened.”
Madelon Gorman, sister of 18-year-old Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman, expressed her feelings in a Facebook post following Saturday’s demonstration in Yorktown.
Sheridan was shot on March 19 while walking near her Chicago campus and succumbed to her injuries.
Jose Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant, has been charged with her murder.
“My sister left Yorktown to further her education in Chicago, where she was tragically murdered by an undocumented immigrant with a criminal background. That loss devastated my family,” Madelon wrote in a Facebook post.
“Seeing an anti-ICE protest in the very community that raised us is deeply painful. It feels like a wound being reopened. It seems as though my sister’s tragic death is being used as a political talking point rather than acknowledged as the profound human loss it truly is,” she continued.
“What makes this especially painful is that there are numerous places where people can gather to express their views. Yet this protest occurred in the hometown Sheridan cherished, the town that raised her, and the community that mourned her,” Madelon added.
The protest, reportedly organized by Indivisible Yorktown and Northern Westchester Indivisible, was directed at ICE and US Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican.
State Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Yorktown) also denounced the protest held on Saturday in the town.
“Today’s anti-ICE protest by members of the extreme left in Yorktown, which was essentially a celebration of Kathy Hochul’s new Sanctuary State laws, was a shocking display of disrespect toward a community and family still in mourning,” the Republican wrote on Facebook.
“Sheridan Gorman loved Yorktown and everything it stood for, but she was taken from us by an undocumented immigrant and the same flawed system Kathy Hochul recently endorsed for all of New York,” Slater stated. “No one should endure the pain the Gorman family has faced, and today’s protest ignored every green light that continues to shine for Sheridan.”
