Caught at the border. Released.
Caught again in Chicago. Released again.
Arrest warrant issued. No one came.
Three years later
he put on a ski mask,
hid behind a lighthouse,
and shot an eighteen-year-old college girl in the back.
She was looking at the skyline with her friends.
She died on the concrete.
This was preventable.
Every. Single. Piece. Of this. Was preventable.
March 19, 2026. Chicago.
She's a freshman. Eighteen.
Flew in from a small town in New York
to chase a bigger life.
Just after midnight, she walks out of her dorm
with five friends. Laughing. Whispering.
Someone heard the northern lights might be out.
They want to see the skyline from the pier.
Just kids. Just a Thursday night.
The kind of stupid beautiful thing
you do when you're eighteen
and the world still feels safe.
She walks ahead of the group.
Reaches the lighthouse first.
Behind it,
in the dark,
a man is waiting.
Black clothes. Black ski mask. A handgun.
She turns.
Whispers to her friends โ
someone's back there.
He steps out. Gun raised.
They run.
One shot.
It hits her in the back.
Her friends hear her drop.
They come back.
She's on the ground. Bleeding.
Eighteen years old and dying
on a concrete pier
because she wanted to see the city lights.
Now here's the timeline
that should make your blood boil.
May 2023.
He crosses the border illegally.
Border Patrol catches him.
Has him in custody.
Releases him into the country.
June 2023.
One month later. Chicago.
Arrested for shoplifting.
They have him. Again.
Release him. Again.
He's told to show up to court.
He never does.
A judge issues a warrant for his arrest.
And nobody comes.
Nobody knocks on his door.
Nobody runs his name.
Nobody picks him up.
For three years,
a man with an active arrest warrant
lives freely in Chicago.
One block from a college campus.
One. Block.
You want to know what makes this
more than just a tragedy?
The state of Illinois has a law.
The TRUST Act.
It tells local police:
Don't help ICE.
Don't hold anyone for them.
Don't even tell them
when you let someone go.
A man gets caught at the border โ
released.
Gets caught committing a crime โ
released.
Skips court, warrant goes active โ
and the law says don't look for him.
That is not a broken system.
That is the system doing exactly what it was built to do.
Read that sentence one more time.
The system worked perfectly.
And an eighteen-year-old girl is dead.
Her parents flew in from New York.
Stood on the pier where their daughter was killed.
Threw flowers into Lake Michigan.
Stop for a second and picture that.
A mother. At the exact spot
where her child bled out on a school night.
Throwing flowers into black water
because there's nothing left to do.
Her mother told the cameras:
"We've got to make changes."
Her father:
"There are definitely policies
that contributed to this happening."
They didn't scream. They didn't rage.
They stood on cold concrete
and asked this country, quietly,
to do better.
This country has not answered them.
She was studying business.
She was part of a Christian fellowship on campus.
Her family said she made people feel seen.
She made people feel valued.
She was someone's entire world.
And she was just trying to look at the skyline.
She should be packing up her dorm room right now.
She should be fighting with her roommate
about who gets the mini fridge.
She should be texting her mom
about what to bring home for summer.
She should be alive.
She should be alive.
She should be alive.
A border that held him would have saved her.
A jail that kept him would have saved her.
A warrant someone bothered to serve would have saved her.
A state that let its police do their damn jobs
would have saved her.
Four doors.
Four chances.
Every single one โ left wide open.
And a girl who wanted to see the skyline
walked to the end of a pier
and never came back.
God bless every parent
who drops their kid off at college,
drives home with an empty back seat,
and has no choice but to trust
that this world will bring them back alive.
@CAgovernor Under FOIA Exemptions:
Exemption 7: Information compiled for law enforcement purposes that:
7(A). Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings
@thehill@IamLindseyG@TheHillOpinion 50 lawmakers or their household members are invested in military weapons and equipment coompanies. Firms โreceive 100s of billions of dollars annually via legislation,โ Total value of lawmakersโ stock holdings could be as much as $10.9 million
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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then โ I must report this calmly โ the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did weโฆ?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished โ an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
@amyforsandiego@ChanelRion You need either Cali DL#/ID# or last 4 of SSN to register but can still register if you don't have either. The forms of ID you mentioned can be used when you try to vote if you didn't have DL/ID # or SSN at registration
voter-id-and-reg-requirements.pdf https://t.co/vf9LyBUNXJ
Further, Iโve never seen so many people
out on a Sunday night at the Lincoln Memorial to see the reflection. Decline is a choice - as is refusing decline, putting in the work to keep things beautiful and being proud of our capital city/our incredible country. ๐บ๐ธ
@WallStreetApes The real reason is that crime is down statewide and nationwide. It doesn't have anything to do with the leadership in Los Angeles. If anything, it might be because of all the deportations under Present Trump.
A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.
She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.
Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.
Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.
Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.
She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.
By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.