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You'll remember Jayapal as Slideman's heroine and benefactor of his financial support......you'll also remember Slideman as BV's mentor and hero.....those were the days my friends.....we'd thought they'd never end.RebelGator » 9 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ At a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on sanctuary city policies, Jessica Gorman—the mother of a Loyola University student killed by an undocumented immigrant—confronted Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) Ranking Member Pramila Jayapal offered her condolences to the grieving families but criticized the hearing. She argued that the committee's fourth session on sanctuary cities was a repetitive distraction and a political maneuver.When Jessica Gorman took the microphone to testify about her daughter, Sheridan Gorman, who was shot and killed in Chicago, she directly addressed Jayapal's objections:Rejecting Political Excuses: Gorman stated, "There’s no 'BUT' when your child is in a coffin," pushing back against the idea that the hearing was just a political distraction.Demanding Empathy: She asked lawmakers why her daughter’s life seemed to matter less than illegal immigrants, demanding they look at the policy consequences through the eyes of a grieving parent.Personal Defense: Gorman emphasized that she was not a career advocate or a public speaker, but felt forced to speak out so her daughter's story would not be silenced by partisan gridlock.Broader Context of the HearingThe hearing focused heavily on whether cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities place citizens at risk. The session became deeply polarized, with Representative Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) fiercely criticizing Democrats like Jayapal and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) for failing to show identical outrage for victims of undocumented immigrant crime as they do for victims of federal enforcement errors.While Republicans argued that sanctuary policies allow violent criminals to remain on the streets rather than being handed over to ICE, Jayapal and other committee Democrats maintained that separating local criminal law from federal civil immigration enforcement is necessary to preserve community trust and encourage people to report crim