Outrage: Illegal Alien and Convicted Murderer Suing Trump for $75M & Citizenship

Sometimes you have to wonder about the sheer gall demonstrated by some people. In one such case, we have Brandon Ortiz-Vite, a Mexican national who was in the United States illegally when he was arrested and convicted of murder. Ortiz-Vite is now serving a prison sentence of (at minimum) 39 years, but that hasn't stopped him from suing President Trump. Why? Because then-candidate Trump used Ortiz-Vite as an example in his campaign ads on illegal immigration, including displaying Ortiz-Vite's mug shot.

This is pretty much the definition of a frivolous lawsuit.

An illegal alien killer highlighted by President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2024 wants $75.5 million and “naturalization to this beautiful country,” as well as an apology from the 47^th POTUS.
“I was put into a category. Who I was as a person no longer mattered! What only mattered was my race, my case, and immigration status. Once again it belittled me, shattered my dignity and what I was as a person,” Mexican national Brandon Ortiz-Vite wrote in a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court.
“The shame it brought to my family name is a reality I have to live with now,” he wrote. “I took full responsibility for my actions, but for them to use my case for political gain on T.V. was unjust. Humiliating. When I thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. I was center stage in front of a nation, public scrutiny at its finest.”

The proper response would be, "You put yourself in that category when you murdered Ruby Garcia and dumped her body on the side of the road. You were tried and convicted under the laws of the State of Michigan, and in that due process, the main thing we learned about who you were as a person was that you were a murderer. Your race doesn't matter. Your case only matters because you were convicted of murder. Your immigration status matters because if our immigration laws were being enforced, you never would have been in the United States and Ruby Garcia would still be alive. You have no dignity to shatter. You are a killer. You were convicted. You are now where you belong, in prison, and if President Trump used your mug shot and name, which are a matter of public record, in a campaign ad, it is because you are precisely the kind of person he was describing when he spoke of criminal illegal aliens."

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Ortiz-Vite was originally allowed to remain in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but following arrests for driving without a license, breaking and entering, and operating while intoxicated, he was deported during the first Trump administration in 2020. Ortiz-Vite then entered the United States again, illegally, during the Biden administration.

This is pretty much the definition of a frivolous lawsuit, and yet it was filed.

A prominent Grand Rapids attorney advised Ortiz-Vite to cool his jets.

“Based on my experience, I do not think this lawsuit is going anywhere,” Grand Rapids attorney and former federal prosecutor Matthew Borgula told MLive.
“Also, Presidential immunity covers official acts, and campaign statements can fall outside it — but this suit fails for more basic reasons. The statements were substantially true, and being publicly embarrassed by a politician isn’t a constitutional violation. This case should end before it begins.”

This case will likely go nowhere. If it gets as far as a courtroom, it would be understandable for the first judge to dismiss it with prejudice and then sentence Ortiz-Vite's lawyers to five days in jail for contempt of court, for wasting his time.

Honestly, the nerve of some people.

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