From the “Probably Well-Meaning, but Dangerous” file, we bring you this: a Virginia law that allows illegals to remain in high school through the age of 22 is under fire after a 19-year-old Venezuelan man was arrested earlier this month after being accused of groping at least nine teen girls in the hallways of Fairfax County High School.
The accused man in this case is Israel Flores Ortiz, an illegal from El Salvador who crossed the southern border in 2024 and was released unsupervised into the country under lax Biden-era policies. Ortiz’s case made headlines because the Fairfax County prosecutor’s office, run by the odious Steve Descano, wanted the man released from jail and returned back into the community.
Luckily, a judge disagreed with Descano’s office and refused to release the illegal. At the same time, Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid has indicated she will not honor an ICE detainer against Ortiz unless it’s accompanied by a criminal judicial order.
The Israel Ortiz case also has many people, including parents of the groping victims, wondering why this grown man, reportedly a junior, was at the school in the first place. It turns out the answer is found in Virginia Code § 22.1-5, which allows “English as a second language” students to remain in high school until their 22nd birthday provided they entered the United States after the age of 12. Meaning, an untold number of illegal men are roaming the halls of Virginia high schools and mixing in with teen girls.