The illegal migrant suspected of killing a 25-year-old Michigan woman was deported during the Trump administration and subsequently re-entered the country again illegally.
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 25, is alleged to have shot and killed Ruby Garcia, 25, whose body was left at the side of highway U.S. 131 in downtown Grand Rapids on Friday night.
Michigan State Police are still carrying out an investigation into her death but believe she may have been the victim of a car-jacking at around 11:38pm on Friday.
Ortiz-Vite is awaiting arraignment on an open murder charge. He was booked on Sunday and is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday.
The accused is facing one count each of homicide/open murder, carjacking, felony firearm, illegally carrying a concealed weapon, operating while intoxicated and driving on a suspended or revoked license, records show, The Midwesterner reports.
Fox News Digital reports that the alleged killer was previously 'arrested by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Detroit on Aug. 31, 2020, and served a notice to appear.
'He was ordered removed by an immigration judge with the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) Sept. 24, 2020, and was removed to Mexico Sept. 29, 2020,' according to an ICE spokesperson.
'At an unknown date and location Ortiz-Vite reentered the United States without inspection by an immigration official.'
Following his arrest for murder last week, a detainer has been lodged against the illegal migrant from Mexico.
Garcia's family are now helping to raise funds for her funeral and have set up a GoFundMe page that has raised $15,000.
Ruby's sister, Mavi Garcia, paid tribute to her sibling, describing her as 'a great person all around.'
'She would brighten up the room with her beautiful smile and laugh,' Garcia wrote on Facebook. 'She loved to travel, was dedicated to her work and enjoyed being with her family on her free time.
'She was a great daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She will be remembered as being full of life and laughter, those who were around her would know she was silly and made everyone laugh,' Garcia said.
'Her loss has impacted the lives of many people. Her life was taken too soon. She deserved to live life, travel the world, have kids and follow her dreams.
'She loved to travel … she had so many plans this year on traveling,' Garcia went on. 'I feel like her motivation in life were my mother and her nieces and nephews. She definitely was a strong person.'
It is not clear what, if any relationship existed between Ruby and Ortiz-Vite, who is originally from Puebla, Mexico.
'I prefer not to give out information on their relationship,' Mavi Garcia stated. 'He is currently in custody that's all we know as of right now and he is/was here illegally.'
'I can't thank you all enough for the big help the Garcia family is receiving in these tough times,' Garcia posted to Facebook.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13242269/Illegal-migrant-killer-deported-Trump-Mexico.html
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Illegal migrant charged with shooting dead 25-year-old Michigan woman was deported under the Trump administration
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
NYC begins handing out migrants taxpayer-funded, pre-paid debit cards at Roosevelt Hotel shelter, with 450 people set to begin receiving up to '$18,200-a-year'
Migrant families in New York city have begun receiving prepaid debit cards as part of a controversial scheme that could see them receive up to $18,200 a year.
Officials began distributing the cards to the first ten new arrivals at the city's Roosevelt Hotel shelter on Monday.
The cards are preloaded with a week's worth of funds and will be rolled out to 115 families, equivalent to 450 people by the end of the week.
Mayor Eric Adams is pressing ahead with the $53 million scheme, despite a furious backlash amid fears the cards are open to abuse.
The debit cards can only be used at supermarkets and bodegas, the city leader said. A family of four with two children could receive up to $350 per week, depending on the children’s ages.
Participants will also have to sign an affidavit swearing they will only use the cards for food or baby supplies at the risk of being removed from the program.
But critics including Adams' rival on the migrant crisis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Queens born rapper, 50 Cent have questioned why migrants are receiving the cards ahead of struggling New Yorkers.
Abbott blasted the 'offensive' scheme as 'insanity,' but supporters say it will help the city deal with the strain on its services caused by a surge in migrants in recent months.
In the last two years 180,000 asylum seekers entered New York, with 65,000 still in shelters.
Adams insists the debit cards will save the city $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually, by allowing migrants to spend money that will go back into the local economy instead of the city spending funds on boxes of food.
Joseph Borelli, the City Council's Republican minority leader, acknowledged there would be a saving, but questioned the amount being spent on migrants.
'A lot of New Yorkers are going to take this as something that's fundamentally unfair,' he told the New York Times. 'There are plenty of New Yorkers struggling to pay their bills.'
His administration was criticized for entering into the $434 million contract with DocGo, a medical services company whose work on the migrant crisis has been mired in controversy.
Adams has spent $570,000 on the contract so far, including a $125,000 starting fee for the company, advance funds for the cards and $3 per card to create them.
CEO Wole Coaxum insisted the digital coding on the cards ensures they will only work in preapproved stores, with families also being asked to save receipts.
His said company has worked on universal basic income cards in other cities, including Los Angeles and Newark, N.J. where they were not abused.
'What we've found in each of these instances is that people spend the money on the intended purpose,' he said in an interview.
The city can remove people from the program if they are found to be committing fraud. Officials intend to gather data on the first families to receive the cards before rolling it out further.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13240229/nyc-migrants-taxpayer-debit-cards-roosevelt-hotel-shelter.html
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Strange Bedfellows: Texas Joins Biden Admin. in Suing Massive Illegal-Immigrant Development
AUSTIN, Texas — The State of Texas has now joined federal agencies in alleging a vast land sales fraud and foreclosure abuse scheme by the developers of perhaps the largest illegal immigrant colonia in the United States, a 60-square-mile city of at least 50,000 (and up to 75,000) northeast of Houston named Colony Ridge.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office alleges that Colony Ridge Development owners John and Trey Harris — once large Republican campaign donors to Gov. Greg Abbott — ran aggressive “predatory” land sales and “foreclosure mill” schemes that systematically defrauded tens of thousands “Spanish speakers” from “international communities” for more than a decade.
Many of the state’s allegations mirror federal ones that Biden administration-led agencies filed on December 20, 2023, in an 11-count civil rights complaint. The federal civil charges seeking payback damages allege that since at least 2016, the Harris brothers ran a large-scale “illegal land sales scheme” predicated on “predatory” and false advertising that tricked tens of thousands of Latinos into buying do-it-yourself, flooding-prone home building lots despite extremely high interest, foreclosure, and property-flipping rates.
No one knows how many illegal immigrants bought land in Colony Ridge from the Harris family. But local residents, law enforcement officials, business owners, and elected office holders almost uniformly believe the majority who bought into the massive colonia bought do-it-yourself home plots at high interest rates because they were not legally present in the United States; the company required no proof of income or credit.
While none of the lawsuits spell out that marketing and sales targeted illegal immigrants, the state filing and press release about marketing and selling to “international communities” suggest that former Colony Ridge employees are poised to later say so.
“Among other things, former employees of Colony Ridge have represented that the company instructed them to avoid selling to customers who could speak English or who did not appear to be of Latino or Hispanic heritage,” it said.
The brothers have colorfully denied all of the federal allegations, telling a local news outlet that the lawsuit was “total bullshit”, its allegations completely false.
“I don’t understand why we are being made into the bad guys,” Trey Harris said. “There are thousands of people who were living in apartments and rent houses who now have their own houses and are earning equity. If they are paying slightly higher interest rates, it is still better than paying rent and not earning equity.”
The brothers, though clearly eager to defeat the civil lawsuits and the massive business-killing penalties they portend, may soon have to expand their defense to new battlefields.
The New York Post has reported that the IRS and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have opened investigations on Colony Ridge’s developers and operations, and The Daily Wire has reported that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6 office has an active investigation, too.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Strange-Bedfellows-Texas-Joins-Biden-Admin-Suing-Massive-IllegalImmigrant-Development
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Monday, March 25, 2024
Border Patrol chief admits national security threat as terrorists may be among migrants illegally crossing border
“They dictate what the flow is going to look like and we respond to it,” Owens said in an interview that aired on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday when asked if smugglers are “setting the rules of engagement.”
“We try and get out in front of it and deny them the ability to use these areas,” he went on. “But at the end of the day, there’s over 1,900 miles of border with Mexico.”
Under the Biden administration, the US has endured record levels of migrants pouring across the southern border, including thousands who claim asylum and are then released into the country.
Border Patrol has reported 1,151,448 encounters at the southern border, according to the most recent tally of numbers through the 2024 fiscal year. The prior year saw 2,475,669, according to the agency.
Owens fretted that there could be terrorists and other dangerous people slipping through.
“That number is a large number, but what’s keeping me up at night is the 140,000 known got-aways, it’s not part of that,” he said, referring to the official count. “And that’s just what we know.
“That is a national security threat. Border security is a big piece of national security and if we don’t know who is coming into our country, and we don’t know what their intent is, that is a threat,” he continued. “They’re exploiting a vulnerability that’s on our border right now.”
The border chief noted that most of the encounters are with individuals who are turning themselves in and are fleeing dire economic conditions.
“[That] doesn’t make them bad people, it’s just that they’re not being respectful of the laws that we’ve established as a country,” he said.
Still, there are dangerous people buried in that population that do pose risks to the US, Owens contended.
“There are still people that we’re finding in those groups though that have criminal backgrounds, that have been convicted sexual predators, that had been convicted gang members — a very small amount in that population, but they’re still there,” he explained.
This fiscal year alone, Owens said the US has encountered migrants “from 160 countries or more” ranging from Latin America to Africa, that he attributed to various smuggling organizations.
Owens argued that more stringent penalties against offenders could help slow the crisis.
“I’m talking about jail time. I’m talking about being removed from the country and I’m talking about being banned from being able to come back because you chose to come in the illegal way instead of the established lawful pathways that we set for you,” he said.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/24/us-news/border-patrol-chief-admits-national-security-threat-as-terrorists-may-be-among-migrants-illegally-crossing-border/
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
'Absolute Chaos': Illegal Alien Mob Overruns Texas National Guard at the Border
While President Joe Biden, impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Border Czar Kamala Harris continue to insist that their policies are not responsible for the border crisis — one the White House & Co. denied existed for years — while also erroneously stating they're powerless to do anything about the chaos, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border continues to get worse.
In a scene that looks more like the border of some war-torn third-world country, and after multiple months of record-setting illegal alien crossings on Biden's watch, a horde of illegal aliens have now stormed Texas authorities in an attempt to forcibly and unlawfully enter the U.S. To call it an "invasion" is anything but hyperbole.
Watch as Texas National Guard soldiers on the U.S. side of the border near El Paso became overrun on Thursday afternoon, via the New York Post's Jennie Taer (warning: language).
"Absolute chaos," indeed. Notably, this is the kind of chaos President Biden and his administration — including through the federal Department of Justice — are seeking to incentivize and normalize by suing Texas to block state efforts to secure the border, a duty in which Biden is entirely derelict.
As Townhall reported earlier this week, the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday gave Texas the green light to implement SB 4, a state law allowing Lone Star State officials to arrest, detain, and deport illegal aliens. But almost immediately after the Supreme Court ruled that Texas could proceed under SB 4 pending a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, that court again blocked Texas from operating under the state law to allow the removal of illegal aliens.
As a result, Texas officials are left only able to try dissuading illegal aliens from unlawfully entering the U.S. after which most of them are processed and released into the country's interior pending an asylum hearing, dates for which are now stretching more than a half-decade into the future — even when a significant majority are ineligible for asylum.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
‘We’re So Sick of It’: Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse
HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border.
Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail.
“I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home.
“It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she said. “You want to be safe in your own house and on your property.
“It’s getting bad. Sometimes, you see them on the interstate, looking for a ride.”
Mrs. Brow and her husband are both avid hunters and have deer stands set up on their property. Their game cameras often record illegal immigrants passing through.
The illegal immigrants travel alone or in small groups, discarding unwanted belongings as they trudge further south into Vermont, headed for destinations unknown.
“We find clothes out here. We found shoes and a bicycle. We see Border Patrol out there on snow dogs following footprints,” Mrs. Brow told The Epoch Times.
Once a place of peace and solitude, she said the woods behind her house are now a shortcut for illegal immigrants.
And it’s only gotten worse since President Joe Biden took office, she said.
In fiscal year 2023, border officials encountered 189,401 illegal and inadmissible immigrants along the U.S.–Canada border, including at the ports of entry. Of those, 10,021 were caught crossing illegally between ports of entry.
In fiscal 2021, that number was 916.
Mrs. Brow’s property falls within the Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Swanton Sector, a 295-mile stretch of largely unguarded border with Canada.
Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia wrote on social media earlier this month that border agents in his sector apprehended more illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2023 than “the prior 11 fiscal years combined.”
The Swanton Sector encompasses 24,000 square miles and includes all of Vermont and several counties in New Hampshire and New York State.
Traveling on foot in the area is especially challenging during the winter months.
Border officials have encountered illegal immigrants marching across miles of snow-covered wilderness, swamps, muddy fields, and meadows in sub-freezing temperatures.
Many succumb to the elements.
This month, eight illegal immigrants from Albania and India died while trying to cross the St. Lawrence River in New York State.
In February, a Mexican man traveling in a group near Holland, Vermont, collapsed and died after crossing illegally into the United States.
“It cannot be stressed enough: not only is it unlawful to circumvent legal means of entry into the United States, but it is extremely dangerous, particularly in adverse weather conditions, which our Swanton Sector has in incredible abundance,” Mr. Garcia said in a statement.
Border officials often use snowmobiles and tracked all-terrain vehicles to pursue illegal immigrants.
“Despite sub-freezing temperatures, Swanton Sector continues encountering family groups with young children, including infants, illegally crossing from Canada into the U.S.,” according to the CBP website.
A woman who lives in New Hampshire told The Epoch Times an illegal immigrant swam across Wallace Pond in Canaan, arriving soaking wet on her neighbor’s doorstep asking for help.
In a separate incident, Mrs. Brow recalled her neighbor returning home one afternoon to find an illegal immigrant sitting on her front steps.
“He wanted to charge his phone at her house,” Mrs. Brow said.
While the neighbor allowed the man to charge his cellphone outside the house, she also called Border Patrol, who came and arrested him.<i>[And then let him go]</i>
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/were-so-sick-of-it-northern-border-crisis-gets-worse-5607148?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=most-read-3
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Supreme Court Lets Texas Enforce Law Allowing Police to Arrest Illegal Immigrants
The Supreme Court allowed Texas’ law enabling local police to arrest illegal migrants to take effect Tuesday.
After extending a pause on the law multiple times, the Supreme Court allowed Texas’ SB 4 to take effect Tuesday, declining the Biden administration’s effort to halt it while litigation continues. The Department of Justice first filed its lawsuit against Texas to prevent enforcement of the law in January.
“The Court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos, when the only court to consider the law concluded that it is likely unconstitutional,” Justice Sonia Sotomyaor wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. “This law implicates serious issues that are subject to ongoing political debate, and Texas’s novel scheme requires careful and reasoned consideration in the courts to determine which provisions may be unconstitutional.”
Justice Elena Kagan also wrote in a dissent that she would not have allowed the law to take effect.
U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra, a Reagan appointee, blocked Texas’ law from taking effect in February, finding it “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.”
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay early March allowing the law to take effect while it considered the appeal, prompting the Biden administration to file an emergency application with the Supreme Court.
“So far as I know, this Court has never reviewed the decision of a court of appeals to enter—or not enter—an administrative stay,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in a concurrence joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “I would not get into the business.”
“Texas’s motion for a stay pending appeal was fully briefed in the Fifth Circuit by March 5, almost two weeks ago,” Barrett wrote. “Merits briefing on Texas’s challenge to the District Court’s injunction of S. B. 4 is currently underway. If a decision does not issue soon, the applicants may return to this Court.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/19/supreme-court-lets-texas-enforce-law-allowing-police-to-arrest-illegal-immigrants/
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