In Sanctuary Cities, American Lives Don’t Matter, by Brian Lonergan

America’s “sanctuary” communities claim to possess higher levels of compassion for others, but the reality is that the measure of a human life in these places has quietly been assigned a hierarchical value based on immigration status. By the logic of sanctuary laws, illegal aliens’ lives have the highest value, while those of American citizens have virtually none.

The most recent example is the case of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University freshman who was gunned down in Chicago this month.

Gorman’s alleged killer, Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan national who entered illegally under the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policy, was apprehended at the southern border in May 2023, released into the country, then arrested again for shoplifting in Chicago just weeks later. He was set free once more because the city’s sanctuary policies barred cooperation with federal immigration authorities. ….

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