Picture this: a 19-year-old illegal alien allegedly groping teenage girls in the hallways of a Virginia high school — not once, not twice, but roughly a dozen times over the course of months. And when federal authorities finally step in and beg local officials to keep this guy locked up, the governor’s response is essentially, “Nah, we’re good.”
Welcome to Abigail Spanberger’s Virginia, folks. Where the sanctuary state flag flies high and the safety of American teenage girls apparently ranks somewhere below political posturing on the priority list.
The Predator in the Hallway
Last week, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office arrested Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador. Ortiz crossed the southern border in 2024 and was cheerfully released into the country courtesy of the Biden administration’s legendary “catch and release” program — which, let’s be honest, was less of a policy and more of a welcome mat with a chocolate on the pillow.
Ortiz — a legal adult, mind you — was enrolled at Fairfax County High School. He now faces nine counts of assault and battery after police say he spent months groping girls in the school’s hallways. About a dozen victims. Kids. Walking to class, minding their own business, in a building where they’re supposed to feel safe.
Let that sink in for a second.
ICE Begs. Virginia Shrugs.
ICE didn’t mince words. The Department of Homeland Security’s Lauren Bis laid it out plainly:
“This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls. He now faces nine counts of assault and battery. This is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s failed open border policies. We are calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians to not release this predator from jail back into our communities to assault more teenage women. Unfortunately, Governor Abigail Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE and is siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.”
Read that last line again. The sitting governor of Virginia ended cooperation with ICE. Not because the system was working too well. Not because there was some constitutional crisis. Because protecting illegal aliens from deportation is now the blue-state merit badge, and Spanberger wanted hers pinned on early.
The Commonwealth’s Attorney Almost Let Him Walk
And here’s where it gets stupid. Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano — a man whose job is literally to prosecute criminals — agreed to let Ortiz walk right out of jail. Just stroll on out. Nine counts of assault and battery against teenage girls, and Descano figured, “Yeah, he’s probably learned his lesson.”
Thank God a judge still had a functioning spine. The request was denied.
But the fact that it was even attempted tells you everything about the rot in these sanctuary jurisdictions. The system isn’t broken — it’s been deliberately rewired to prioritize the comfort of people who shouldn’t be here over the safety of people who were born here.
Trump Called This. Years Ago.
Say what you want about Trump, but the man didn’t whisper about the border — he screamed about it with a bullhorn from an escalator in 2015 and hasn’t stopped since. He warned that open borders would bring exactly this kind of nightmare into American communities. Schools. Neighborhoods. Places where parents send their kids expecting them to come home in one piece.
The Biden administration flung open the gates, and Spanberger is making sure they stay propped open at the state level. Trump brought the bulldozer. Spanberger brought a “No ICE Allowed” sign and called it compassion.
This Is the Hill They Chose
Every sanctuary politician needs to answer one very simple question: whose side are you on? Because right now, in Fairfax County, Virginia, a man who allegedly preyed on a dozen schoolgirls almost walked free — and the governor’s office is the reason federal agents can’t do their jobs.
Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE. Descano tried to spring the suspect. And somewhere in a Virginia high school, a dozen girls are wondering why the adults in charge cared more about protecting their attacker’s immigration status than protecting them.
That’s not governance. That’s a betrayal with a press release.
