Protesters gather outside Pritzker mansion to disrupt Noem presser, only to find she was never actually there

Protesters gathered extracurricular Illinois politician JB Pritzker's mansion connected Wednesday reasoning that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was holding a presser astir the property. 

Secretary Noem did clasp a property league successful Illinois connected Wednesday, but it was much than fractional a mile distant from the governor’s mansion, leaving the protesters "screaming" into the wind. 

"While we aren’t wholly definite what the protesters were protesting (we aren’t definite they cognize either), oregon wherefore they were screaming successful beforehand of their governor’s mansion, we basal with each unfortunate of amerciable migrant crime," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem hosted a property league connected migration adjacent Gov. J.B. Pritzker's location successful Springfield, Illinois. (Getty/AP) (AP/Getty)

"Secretary Noem went to Springfield, Illinois to articulation Angel families to telephone for the extremity of unsafe sanctuary metropolis policies nether J.B. Pritzker and bring attraction to an at-large amerciable alien murderer who has been evading justness for 2 years for the stabbing of Emma Shafer." 

As protesters shouted extracurricular Pritzker’s mansion, Noem’s presser was held astatine the tract wherever Emma Shafer, 24, was stabbed to decease by Grabriel Calixto Pichardo, 25, an illegal migrant who is wanted connected 3 first-degree execution charges and an aggravated home artillery charge. Pichardo was reportedly dating Shafer astatine the clip of the murder. 

Noem was besides joined by the "Angel families" of Denny McCann and Jimmy Walden, who some mislaid their lives to amerciable migrant crime. 

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McCann was crossing the thoroughfare connected ft erstwhile helium was hit, killed, and dragged down the roadworthy by Saul Chavez, an amerciable migrant who was drunk driving. Chavez was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and aggravated DUI, but disappeared for 11 years aft being released connected bond. He wasn’t apprehended until 2022.  

Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., speaks to late-night big Jimmy Kimmel slams President Donald Trump during a caller interview. (Screenshot/ABC)

Walden was killed erstwhile an amerciable alien, who had antecedently been deported twice, crashed into Walden’s motorcycle successful Maryland. His begetter lives successful Illinois. 

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The intent of the presser was to spotlight the sanctuary presumption of the state, and to telephone connected the potential statesmanlike candidate to "abandon these unsafe sanctuary policies."

Pritzker responded to the presser with a connection connected Wednesday.

"Unlike Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, Illinois follows the law," the Illinois politician explained. The Trump Administration is violating the United States Constitution, denying radical owed process, and disappearing law-abiding neighbors – including children who are U.S. citizens. Yet, they are taking nary existent enactment to beforehand nationalist information and deport convulsive criminals wrong the wide and defined ineligible process."

migrants and Kristi Noem (Carlos A. Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images), left, ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images, right.)

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"Illinoisans are sending a wide connection to Trump’s lackeys that we volition not fto you messiness with america without a resistance," Pritzker concluded. 

Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected X @MizellPreston