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Family of NY teen killed by illegal immigrant knows the horror of ‘sanctuary’ laws — but Gov. Hochul backed one anyway

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On the morning of March 19, three police officers knocked on a door in Yorktown Heights and delivered the worst news any parent can receive.

Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Yorktown High School graduate and a freshman at Loyola University Chicago, was shot and killed while walking with friends.

The man charged with her murder was an illegal immigrant who was detained at the border and then released.

He was then arrested in Chicago and released again. Then he failed to appear in court.

Sheridan’s mother, Jessica, put it plainly: a 10-second phone call from local police to ICE could have saved her daughter’s life.

After a tragedy like this, you’d think Democrats in Albany would ask what went wrong and how we can prevent it from happening again.

Instead, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democrats in the Legislature doubled down. 

Their new “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” prohibits police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities and strips state law enforcement funding from any department that refuses to comply.

In plain English: Albany is now punishing police departments for simply doing their jobs and, in doing so, creating the conditions that will lead to another set of parents getting the same life-changing knock on the door the Gormans did.

Look at the numbers. Per data from ICE, the agency has lodged 21,730 detainers in New York........

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