The Trump Department of Homeland Security has requested that and officials in immigrant-friendly Fairfax County not release an adult illegal alien charged with groping several high school girls on school grounds.
Illegal alien Israel Flores Ortiz, 19, is facing nine counts of assault and battery for groping girls at a Fairfax County high school he was attending. Victims and parents have alleged that Ortiz approached about 12 girls from behind in crowded hallways, grabbed them between the legs, and groped their private areas, according to 7News.
The outlet reported that parents said the incidents have occurred throughout the school year. Ortiz attends the school and is in the eleventh grade, per 7News.
According to DHS, Ortiz illegally entered the U.S. in 2024 and was released into the country by the .
He is currently being held without bond in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, which is operated by the Fairfax County Sheriffs Office, led by Sheriff Stacey Kincaid.Â
According to the sheriffs office website, the office does not honor ICE administrative detainers â requests to hold inmates â unless the detainer is accompanied by a criminal judicial order.
Further, as governor, Spanberger has rolled back state policies mandating cooperation with ICE. Spanberger has said that “when state and local law enforcement are pulled away from upholding our Virginia laws to do the job of federal agents, it weakens their ability to deepen trust â contributing to a culture of fear and distrust that makes it harder for officers to do their jobs.”Â
In a later executive order, Spanberger added that Virginia law enforcement efforts “focus on upholding the rule of law, investigating and stopping criminal conduct, and protecting public safety, not the administrative enforcement of civil status.”
In a Monday statement, DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said that the agency is “calling on Fairfax County sanctuary politicians to NOT release this predator from jail back into our communities to assault more teenage women.”
Bis slammed Spanberger for ending former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkins policy of cooperation with ICE, saying it is “siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.”
“This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls,” Bis said, adding, “This is yet another example of the Biden Administrations failed open border policies.”
In response, Allyson Conroy, a spokesperson for the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, told Fox News Digital that Ortiz currently “remains in the custody of the Sheriffs Office in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.”Â
Conroy said that “while it is still too early in the process to know the outcome of his case, ICE has been notified of Ortizs location at the ADC” and “they are able to execute their detainer by responding to the ADC and taking Ortiz into custody if and when he is ordered released.”
Conroy emphasized that the Fairfax County Sheriffs Office “does not obstruct or prevent ICE from acting on their civil detainers.”
Meanwhile, Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, a mother of three students in the Fairfax County School System, told Fox News that “this entire hor
