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Immigrant convicted of assaulting Virginia students deported following release, reports say
Federal authorities deported an El Salvador national following an abbreviated local sentence, Fox News reports.
The short version
- Israel Flores-Ortiz was deported to El Salvador after serving roughly nine months in jail for groping high school students in Fairfax County, Virginia.[Fox News]
- A Department of Justice immigration judge issued a removal order days prior to his release from local custody.[Fox News]
- The Fairfax County Sheriff's Office transferred Flores-Ortiz directly to federal immigration authorities under Virginia state law.[Fox News]
Key facts
- Israel Flores-Ortiz was arrested for touching the private parts of nine high school girls in Fairfax County, Virginia.[Fox News]
- Flores-Ortiz served about nine months of a potential multi-year prison term before his release.[Fox News]
- A DOJ immigration judge issued an order for Flores-Ortiz's removal from the country several days before his release.[Fox News]
- The Fairfax County Sheriff's Office transferred Flores-Ortiz to ICE under a state statute authorizing transfers up to five days prior to release.[Fox News]
What remains uncertain
- The precise legal or administrative rationale leading to the abbreviation of Flores-Ortiz's sentence was not detailed in the reporting.[Fox News]
Sources
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