A 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico pleaded guilty September 23 to killing his girlfriend and leaving her body on the side of a highway.
President Donald Trump mentioned the case of Brandon Ortiz-Vite earlier this year as a way to foreground the danger to Americans from uncontrolled immigration. Ortiz-Vite killed Ruby Garcia with a gun and then pushed her body out of a car onto the side of U.S. 131 in Michigan back in March of this year, apparently after Garcia rejected him.
Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Ortiz-Vite, like millions of others, was in the U.S. illegally. The man turned himself in to law enforcement a few days after committing the murder, apparently prompted by a call he received on the phone for a local church. Ortiz-Vite pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and four other offenses. Since he pleaded guilty, there will be no trial. He will be sentenced on October 31.
Trump has highlighted this killing frequently when he talks about the dangers of an open border that, under the Biden administration, has allowed millions of illegal aliens to basically stroll into the country with no resistance. He has also frequently mentioned the case of University of Georgia student Laken Riley, who was killed, allegedly, by an illegal alien named Jose Ibarra when Riley was jogging near her college this February.
No one is certain how many illegal aliens are in the country, nor exactly how many came in during the Biden administration. Figures released by government agencies are not trustworthy, and the Democrats are resisting candid discussion of the problem by claiming that native-born Americans commit more crimes than illegal aliens.
Ortiz-Vite has been in the U.S. illegally since he was a child until he was deported by ICE in 2020 for drunk driving. But he came back, though no one knows exactly when. He met his girlfriend about a year before he murdered her, according to the Michigan State Police.
The couple were arguing in a car while driving down the highway in March, and Ortiz-Vite had been using cocaine and drinking alcohol, according to his later statement to the police. Garcia pulled the car over and ordered him out, and he reacted by pulling out his gun and killing her before dumping her body.
Two nights later Ortiz-Vite called police and said he was turning himself in for murder. When he is sentenced next month he may get up to 37 years in prison. Ostensibly, ICE will then move to deport him, though whether that will be actually carried out is uncertain.
