DHS honors Illinois woman whose corpse was allegedly abused by illegal immigrant freed under sanctuary laws

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a video honoring the beingness of an Illinois pistillate whose assemblage was allegedly stuffed successful a retention instrumentality and doused with bleach by an amerciable migrant who walked escaped until helium was arrested by national authorities. 

The assemblage of Megan Bos was discovered successful April 2025 by officers with the Waukegan Police Department. The 37-year-old, who was reported missing a period earlier, was recovered successful a instrumentality successful a backyard belonging to Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, a Mexican citizen, DHS said. 

Bos was allegedly visiting Mendoza, 52, who claimed that she was nether the power of drugs. He told investigators that helium recovered Bos unresponsive astatine 1 point, believing she died from an overdose. 

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Illegal migrant Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, near and Megan Bos, whose assemblage was recovered connected his property, right. Mendoza is accused of storing Bos' assemblage successful a instrumentality for months and pouring bleach connected her.  (Department of Homeland Security)

Mendoza near her assemblage successful the basement for days earlier throwing it distant successful a garbage tin successful his yard, yet pouring bleach connected her corpse and leaving her determination for astir 2 months, DHS said.

Mendoza was charged with concealing the body, abusing a corpse, 2 counts of concealing the decease of a idiosyncratic and obstructing justice, each felonies, but nary were detainable offenses nether Illinois sanctuary laws, DHS said. 

After a tribunal hearing, Lake County Judge Randie Bruno released Mendoza from custody. He was yet arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers successful Chicago connected July 19, 2025. 

"Our hearts interruption for the household of Megan Bos, a unfortunate of amerciable alien transgression wholly abandoned by the sanctuary policies of Illinois and J.B. Pritzker," said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "THIS is wherefore we bash what we do. Under the enactment of President Trump and Secretary Noem, DHS is prioritizing the lives of guiltless Americans victimized by amerciable aliens. "

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Megan Bos, 37, was reported missing and aboriginal recovered dormant successful Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez's yard. (Photo courtesy of DHS)

McLaughlin noted that 70% of ICE arrests are of amerciable immigrants charged oregon convicted for crimes successful the United States.

In a video honoring Bos, her mother, Jennifer Bos, criticized the attraction of ICE officers arsenic they proceed to people transgression amerciable immigrants crossed the country. In Minneapolis, national authorities person clashed with agitators during enforcement operations, resulting successful deadly shootings successful 2 cases. 

The parent of Megan Bos is criticizing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s absorption to national migration enforcement aft her daughter’s death. (Scott Olson/Getty Images; Jennifer Bos)

"I hatred that ICE is being treated the mode they are. Please clasp strong, delight support doing it, delight don’t springiness up. I know, for me, I’m truthful grateful that you’re doing it. And there’s truthful galore radical who are truthful grateful that you’re determination doing that," said Jennifer Bos. "Every transgression that is committed by idiosyncratic who does not beryllium present is simply a transgression that could person been prevented."

"It didn’t person to happen. They’re doing horrible things and radical similar (Illinois) Governor Pritzker are protecting them anyway," she added. "We’re conscionable asking to get escaped of the criminals who wounded our families."

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The Trump medication has sued respective states implicit sanctuary laws, which critics accidental support amerciable immigrants and criminals portion posing a nationalist information risk. The medication sued Illinois and respective different states implicit the matter. 

In July 2025, a national justice dismissed the suit against Illinois, citing overreach by the national government.