{"id":34477,"date":"2024-11-08T02:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34477"},"modified":"2024-11-08T02:17:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:17:20","slug":"mexican-man-gets-39-years-for-killing-girlfriend-in-michigan-slaying-that-became-campaign-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=34477","title":{"rendered":"Mexican man gets 39 years for killing girlfriend in Michigan slaying that became campaign issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. \u2014 A Mexican national who is in the U.S. illegally was sentenced Thursday to 39 years in a Michigan prison for killing his girlfriend, a crime that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-michigan-immigration-bb7b9aa2d94d3ca3e8ac1d7cf5f7c0af\">suddenly was thrust<\/a>&nbsp;into the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-says-no-price-tag-mass-deportation-plan-rcna179178\">U.S. presidential race\u2002<\/a>because of the man\u2019s immigration status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe actions I took on the night of March 22 do not define who my people are. I apologize with the utmost respect to all immigrants from all walks of life,\u201d Brandon Ortiz Vite told a judge in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ortiz Vite, 26, pleaded guilty in September to murder and other crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/ruby-garcias-sister-denies-trumps-claim-spoke-family-rcna146266\">Ruby Garcia\u2002<\/a>was found shot to death on the side of a Grand Rapids highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She and Ortiz Vite had been in a car on U.S. 131, arguing about their relationship, when he shot her in the head, removed her body from the car and drove away, investigators said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Last spring, former President Donald Trump publicly accused the Biden administration of failing to keep Ortiz Vite out of the country after he was deported in 2020. But it\u2019s not known whether he returned to the U.S. during the last year of the Trump administration or during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">AP VoteCast, an extensive survey of more than 115,000 voters nationwide, found that Trump\u2019s supporters on Election Day were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-votecast-elections-harris-trump-voters-d5cf4e3611f50ec4349d93ddc7f037cd\">largely focused on immigration and inflation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou, sir, are a cold-blooded murderer,\u201d Judge Mark Trusock told Ortiz Vite. \u201cThis is an intentional crime, and you are a danger to society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ortiz Vite suggested he was using drugs that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t explain my mind that night,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, deep down within, I knew I was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/mexican-man-sentenced-39-years-michigan-killing-became-campaign-issue-rcna179252\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. \u2014 A Mexican national who is in the U.S. illegally was sentenced Thursday to 39 years in a Michigan prison for killing his girlfriend, a crime that&nbsp;suddenly was thrust&nbsp;into the&nbsp;U.S. presidential race\u2002because of the man\u2019s immigration status. \u201cThe actions I took on the night of March 22 do not define who my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31121,31122,22911,2026,1638,1868],"class_list":["post-34477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-39-years-in-prison","tag-campaign-issues","tag-girlfriend","tag-killing","tag-mexico","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34479,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions\/34479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}