An illegal immigrant serving a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of a Michigan woman is suing President Donald Trump, alleging he faced humiliation when his case was used as a political talking point, and is demanding $75 million, a public apology, and U.S. citizenship.
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 27, who was previously deported from the United States, is serving a sentence of 39 to 102 years in prison for killing Ruby Garcia in March 2024.
Garcia’s body had several gunshot wounds and was found dumped along a road in Grand Rapids.
The pair were in a romantic relationship and were engaged in an argument at the time of the slaying.
In a handwritten complaint filed in federal court, Ortiz-Vite named Trump and White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Steven Cheung as defendants.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House.
Ortiz-Vite’s case garnered national attention and was highlighted when Trump, who made combating illegal immigration a large part of his campaign, visited Grand Rapids in 2024.
During his remarks, Trump labeled Ortiz-Vite as “America’s problem.”
He also featured Ortiz-Vite’s mugshot in commercials as an example of the “murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers” who resided illegally in the United States, The Midwesterner reported.
He was mocked by prison staff and other inmates, he said.
“I was put into a category. Who I was as a person no longer mattered! What only mattered was my race,” Ortiz-Vite wrote.
“My case and immigration status! Once again, it belittled me, shattered my dignity and what I was as a person.”
“The shame it brought to my family name is a reality I have to live with now,” he added.
“I took full responsibility for my actions but for them to use my case for political gain on TV was unjust. Humiliating. When I thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. I was center stage in front of a nation, public scrutiny at its finest!” --->READ MORE HERE
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The man who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend in 2024 is suing President Donald Trump for using his name and likeness in campaign ads that vilified undocumented immigrants.
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 27, filed the handwritten lawsuit last week against Trump and 2024 campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung.
Ortiz-Vite is serving 37 to 100 years behind bars after pleading guilty to killing 25-year-old Ruby Garcia in March 2024 by shooting her in the head multiple times and pushing her out of a car onto US-131 near Leonard Street in Grand Rapids.
Trump held a rally in Grand Rapids soon after the killing and railed against illegal immigration, saying that “Joe Biden has brought the carnage and chaos and killing from all over the world and dumped it straight in our backyards.”
Ortiz-Vite, a Mexican citizen, came to the U.S. illegally as a child and remained for years under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Trump took credit for deporting Ortiz-Vite in 2020, after his DACA status lapsed in 2019. Ortiz-Vite later returned to the U.S. illegally, though it’s unclear exactly when.
Ortiz-Vite’s statement filed with the court lists the ways in which he says Trump’s language affected his case and his family, including alleging that it pushed him to take a plea deal.
“So with all the publicity I knew one thing, I had to take any deal they offered me,” he wrote. “I would never win. Not with how the media portrayed me!”
He says the increased publicity Trump’s campaign brought to his case made him an “outcast” in jail and limited his ability to get a fair trial.
Ortiz-Vite confessed to the killing within days, turning himself in and telling police he had shot Garcia “multiple times during an argument while inside her vehicle,” according to court documents. --->READ MORE HERE
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