GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Mexican citizen who is in the United States illegally was sentenced Thursday to 39 years in a Michigan prison for killing his girlfriend. suddenly pushed included US presidential race according to the man’s immigration status.
“My actions on the night of March 22 do not define who my people are. I apologize with the deepest respect to all immigrants from all walks of life,” Brandon Ortiz Vite told the judge in Grand Rapids.
Ortiz Vite, 26, pleaded guilty in September to murder and other charges.
Ruby Garcia He was found shot to death on the side of a Grand Rapids highway.
Investigators said she and Ortiz Vite were in a car on U.S. 131 arguing about their relationship when he shot her in the head, removed her body from the vehicle and drove away.
Last spring, former President Donald Trump publicly accused the Biden administration of not keeping Ortiz Witten out of the country after he was deported in 2020. However, it is not known whether he returned to the United States during the last year of the Trump administration. The Biden administration.
AP VoteCast, a broad survey of more than 115,000 voters nationwide, found that on Election Day, Trump supporters focusing mainly on immigration and inflation.
“You, sir, are a cold-blooded killer,” Judge Mark Trusock told Ortiz Vite. “This is a premeditated crime and you are a danger to society.”
Ortiz Vite suggested that he used drugs that day.
“I can’t explain my mind that night,” he said. “But inside I knew I was wrong.”