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Dominican University students are forging ahead with an “ICE tracker,” just days after law enforcement charged an illegal immigrant with murdering a Loyola University Chicago student.
Journalists with the Dominican Star, the student newspaper of the Catholic university in River Forest, launched the tracker after being trained on it by the editor-in-chief of the Loyola student newspaper.
Several reporters learned the tactics during an Illinois College Press Association event, the Star wrote on March 25.
River Forest is a suburb just west of Chicago’s city limits.
“One of the sessions included information on an ICE Tracking site that had been developed by the Editor-in-Chief, Lilli Malone, and Managing Editor, Julia Pentasuglio, for The Loyola Phoenix,” the Star reporters explained. “They focused on tracking ICE activity in the Rogers Park and Edgewater area.”
Malone, and the editorial board of the Phoenix declared all immigration enforcement “unconstitutional,” when they explained why they were launching an ICE tracker. Malone, and the student newspaper, also apologized earlier this week for calling a suspected murderer an “illegal immigrant.” Jose Medina-Medina stands accused of killing Loyola student Sheridan Gorman.
The Star reporter explained their motivation:
We became inspired by their initiative and decided to create our own addition to service the Dominican University community. After having a meeting with Malone and Pentasuglio, we gathered more information to make this launch possible.
These developments have led to us creating our own map with pinned locations where there has been confirmed ICE activity. The ICE Tracker will include areas that are around Dominican and that have a large commuter student population.
Loyola’s student newspaper continues to promote its own “ICE tracker,” despite backlash against illegal immigration, following the murder of Gorman on March 19. However, the newspaper has not updated the tracker in three months.
The Fix reported earlier this week on Malone’s apology to Medina-Medina for using the term “illegal” to describe him.
The apology drew national attention, with numerous Republican politicians and commentators weighing in to criticize the political correctness.
Senator Ted Cruz also brought up the article during a Senate hearing about illegal immigrant crime.
