Trump Admin Deports Illegal Immigrant Who Groped Multiple Schoolgirls

Nine girls. That number should stop you cold. And it’s why we’re not going to pretend this is some complicated “system failure” story that requires another year of panels and paperwork. A 19-year-old illegal immigrant, Israel Christopher-Ortiz, was convicted of groping multiple schoolgirls at the Virginia high school he attended, and ICE put him on a plane back to El Salvador. That’s the job. It got done.

The Department of Homeland Security decided to spike the football on X with “This groper is GONE.” Fine. It’s blunt, even a little ugly, but so is what those girls went through. People always want government to speak in soft tones while it cleans up hard messes. Meanwhile, parents are left wondering why a kid who shouldn’t have been here in the first place was in a position to victimize classmates, nine times over. The priority should be the victims, not the perpetrator’s feelings.

This is where the open-borders crowd tries to change the subject. They’ll say most illegal immigrants don’t commit crimes. True, and beside the point. We’re not talking about “most.” We’re talking about the ones who do, and the fact that we have tools to remove them quickly once they’re identified. Deportation after a conviction isn’t radical. It’s basic. If you’re here illegally and you harm children, you should be gone.

The real question is how many warning signs get missed before it reaches this stage, and how many schools are quietly told to “handle it internally” while families are left in the dark. The Trump administration acted here, and that matters. But we shouldn’t settle for clean-up. We should be aiming for prevention, which starts with border control that’s more than a talking point and enforcement that doesn’t apologize for itself the moment it works.