(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The adult illegal alien accused of groping several female students at a Virginia high school may benefit from Fairfax County’s policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Israel Flores Ortiz, a 19-year-old Salvadoran national, was charged with nine counts of assault and battery after allegedly groping at least 12 girls at Fairfax High School, where he attends the 11th grade.
Authorities said Ortiz had no prior relationship with the victims. Several of the girls told investigators they were randomly targeted and allegedly groped as they walked through the school.
Ortiz remains in state custody after Virginia Judge Dipti Pidikiti-Smith denied his release request despite Soros-funded Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano agreeing to bail.
Virginia’s ABC 7 News reported Friday that Pidikiti-Smith said the bail request did not properly protect the public. The outlet also noted that the Biden administration allowed Ortiz to enter the U.S. in 2024.
Critics online slammed Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid for allegedly refusing to honor an ICE detainer for Ortiz.
ICE told ABC 7 that the agency is “calling on Fairfax County to honor our detainer to ensure this violent criminal is removed from our country so he can never claim another victim again.”
ICE told me Israel Flores Ortiz illegally entered the country at the southern border in 2024 and was released into the country by the Biden administration. He’s almost 19-years-old and is a junior in Fairfax High School. He had a Spanish interpreter during his court hearing on… https://t.co/yIx7DM3EbE
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) March 14, 2026
Fairfax County does not describe itself as a sanctuary jurisdiction. However, the county requires ICE to obtain a judicial warrant before local authorities will transfer an illegal alien into federal custody.
ICE detainers are not judicial warrants, meaning Fairfax County typically does not honor them without a judge’s order.
“The Board of Supervisors has not designated Fairfax County as a sanctuary county; it complies to the fullest extent required by federal, state or local law with any law enforcement agency requesting criminal law enforcement assistance,” the county said in a statement.
