Entitlement so staggering it borders on parody is currently on display in a story that could have come from the Babylon Bee. An illegal alien who murdered his girlfriend and dumped her body on a Michigan highway is suing President Donald Trump for $75 million, a public apology, and U.S. citizenship.
You can try your hardest to make this up, but it’s would take a deranged comical genius to get it right.
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, serving 39 to 102 years for the cold-blooded killing of Ruby Garcia, claims he was “humiliated” when Trump rightly used his case to illustrate the deadly consequences of open borders.
One almost has to admire the sheer gall. A man who entered this country illegally, got deported, snuck back in, and then executed a young American woman now demands the keys to the kingdom as compensation for being called what he is: America’s problem.
This is far worse than just another frivolous lawsuit. It is a window into the moral inversion that open-border advocates have spent years cultivating. The victim is forgotten. The killer is centered. Justice is recast as persecution. And the man who dared to speak the truth about the human cost of failed immigration enforcement becomes the defendant.
Ortiz-Vite, a 27-year-old Mexican national, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the March 2024 slaying of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia in Grand Rapids. After an argument, he shot her multiple times in the head, dragged her body from her car, and left her on the shoulder of U.S. 131.
He fled in her vehicle, later turning himself in and confessing. He had previously been deported in 2020 after a drunk-driving arrest. His DACA status had expired years earlier. He simply returned illegally, as so many do under policies that treat our laws as suggestions.
Trump seized on the case during a 2024 campaign stop in Grand Rapids, correctly labeling Ortiz-Vite as emblematic of the murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers flooding across the southern border under the previous administration. His mugshot appeared in campaign ads. The killer now whines that this publicity “shattered my dignity,” turned him into a “target,” and caused him to be mocked by fellow inmates.
In his handwritten pro se complaint filed in federal court against Trump and White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Steven Cheung, Ortiz-Vite frets that “what only mattered was my race” and “my case and immigration status.”
He insists he “took full responsibility” yet somehow believes the nation owes him naturalization to “this beautiful country” plus a small fortune for the inconvenience of being identified as a killer.
“I was put into a category. Who I was as a person no longer mattered! … The shame it brought to my family name is a reality I have to live with now,” Ortiz-Vite wrote. “I took full responsibility for my actions but for them to use my case for political gain on TV was unjust. Humiliating.”
Unjust? Humiliating? The man who put multiple bullets into a young woman’s head and left her discarded like trash now postures as the aggrieved party. Legal experts have already dismissed the suit as dead on arrival. Former federal prosecutor Matthew Borgula noted that prisoner complaints are screened for frivolity, presidential immunity covers official acts, and mere embarrassment from true statements does not create a constitutional claim.
“The statements were substantially true, and being publicly embarrassed by a politician isn’t a constitutional violation. This case should end before it begins,” Borgula said.
Tudor Dixon, the former Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate, said, “As long as we have Democrats jetting to other countries to coddle criminal illegal aliens over margaritas, this level of arrogance and entitlement from convicted murderers will continue. It’s time lawmakers stand with the Ruby Garcias of the world instead of her killer.”
Scripture is unambiguous about the gravity of such bloodshed. “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man” (Genesis 9:6).
Ortiz-Vite took a life made in God’s image. He does not get to rewrite the narrative as a civil rights grievance because a presidential candidate refused to look away.
The deeper scandal is not one inmate’s delusional filing. It is the ecosystem that produced him and now enables his complaint. Ortiz-Vite lived most of his life in Kent County under the protection of DACA until it lapsed. After deportation, he walked right back in.
Garcia’s family has described a vibrant young woman who loved travel, work, and family—her sister Mavi remembered how Ruby “would brighten up the room with her beautiful smile and laugh.”
That light was extinguished by a man our system failed to keep out. Yet progressive media and activist class spent years insisting that “migrants” like Ortiz-Vite were the real victims of “cruel” enforcement. When Trump highlighted the body count, they clutched pearls about “stoking fear.” Now the killer himself files suit demanding citizenship as reparations for the spotlight.
This is the logical endpoint of a worldview that treats American sovereignty as optional and American lives as expendable props in a morality play about compassion. Mugshots are public records. Campaign speech about public safety is protected. A man who confessed to murder has no cognizable claim that being accurately described as a murderer somehow violates his rights. The only humiliation here belongs to a justice system and a political culture that has spent decades prioritizing the feelings of lawbreakers over the graves of their victims.
Ortiz-Vite wants counseling for his “anxiety and despair.” He wants $75.5 million in punitive damages. He wants naturalization. What he deserves is to serve every day of his sentence and then be removed from this country forever.
Ruby Garcia cannot sue anyone. She cannot demand an apology. She cannot reclaim the future stolen from her on the side of a Michigan highway. Her killer’s lawsuit is not a bid for justice. It is a grotesque reminder of how far we have drifted from basic moral order—and why secure borders and unapologetic enforcement remain non-negotiable.
The court should do what the previous administration would not: reject this absurdity outright and remind the nation that American citizenship is not a participation trophy for those who murder their way into the headlines.
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