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Beautiful 8-year-old girl brought to US to escape cartels’ crime shot dead by gangbanger on probation for 3 carjackings in Chicago
American Thinker ^ | 01/30/2022 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/30/2022 8:22:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

If ever there were a face of innocence to haunt us as a victim of unthinkably cruel violence, it would be the beautiful and sweet visage of Melissa Ortega.

According to a GoFundMe page, Melissa and her mother — both from Mexico — arrived in Chicago in August. In Wednesday's statement, her mother said that the family had been "filled with dreams" about their move to the United States.

"We imagined a better life here. We came in search of the American Dream we so famously hear of but instead I get to live a nightmare for the rest of my life," she said.


Via Twitter

As usual, guns are being blamed. But the hands that allegedly held the gun that shot her belonged to someone who should not have been at liberty to kill. Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times:

Something has gone awry with our criminal justice system as it pertains to juvenile offenders.

The latest evidence of our broken system is the shooting death last weekend of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega of Little Village.

Emilio Corripio, 16, is charged with opening fire on busy 26th Street and killing her. It isn’t the first time the teenager accused in this shooting has been charged with using an illegally obtained weapon to commit a crime. At the time police say Corripio stepped out from an alley and turned a peaceful street into a shooting gallery, he was on probation for three armed carjackings in the past year.

On the day Melissa was killed, the self-proclaimed Latin Kings gang member was targeting rival gang members, according to the police, and hit one of those rivals in the back, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; bidenvoters; chicago; crime; drugcartel; gangs; illinois; shootings
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1 posted on 01/30/2022 8:22:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Rest in peace.


2 posted on 01/30/2022 8:24:47 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did they come legally?


3 posted on 01/30/2022 8:25:14 AM PST by No name given
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To: No name given

So, ya figure she deserved it?


4 posted on 01/30/2022 8:26:31 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: No name given

RE: Did they come legally?

Legally or not, it’s as if they just moved a few block from their original home.


5 posted on 01/30/2022 8:26:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
So, jorge busho and company, the architects of the "cheap labor express", claim to want to protect these third worlders from the third world. Thus, bringing them here.

But jorge and company are bringing the third world here. Hence, the ones jorge claims to protect are the ones being killed.

Ironic and inexcusable.

6 posted on 01/30/2022 8:26:43 AM PST by LouAvul (The liberal's mantra: " I don't understand why this has to be so hard.")
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To: SeekAndFind
It seems certain segments of our society are behaving like it is the Old West.

If that's what they want...I say give it to them. Bring back public hangings in the town square, stocks and even firing squads. This $hi+ has got to stop.

7 posted on 01/30/2022 8:26:57 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The kid who shot this innocent child likely and his friends had dreams of life in the US when they came here too, but dreams of a different sort.

What a corrupt country we’re becoming. Close the damn border. Throw the autocrats out of power.


8 posted on 01/30/2022 8:27:44 AM PST by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind
Were any Americans hurt?

Who would have thought abetting an invasion would have any negative consequences.

9 posted on 01/30/2022 8:28:51 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Who is Ray Epps?)
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To: No name given

My gosh...

An innocent precious girl is murdered and you care if she’s “legal”?

Even a hard-core closed borders Jingoist like me has trouble with a story like this.


10 posted on 01/30/2022 8:29:12 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: No name given

Come on man!


11 posted on 01/30/2022 8:32:10 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: skeeter

The only way the border gets closed is if Americans start producing the babies to populate those areas which are dying out. Ghost towns are a thing of the past; no politician has the will to lay off the unneeded public employee caste/Dem foot soldiers we build up around population centers. We just import a foreign population and make the American taxpayers provide everything for them - including teachers, cops, etc..


12 posted on 01/30/2022 8:35:26 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SeekAndFind

“At the time police say Corripio stepped out from an alley and turned a peaceful street into a shooting gallery, he was on probation for three armed carjackings in the past year.”

This country has lost the will to exist.


13 posted on 01/30/2022 8:36:02 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need to wear these are all times:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4033868/posts


14 posted on 01/30/2022 8:36:25 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unimportant to the people running Chicago, and this country.


15 posted on 01/30/2022 8:39:27 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: kearnyirish2

You are wise beyond your years. Precious few can muster the courage to look reality in the eye


16 posted on 01/30/2022 8:40:16 AM PST by stormhill
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To: skeeter
What a corrupt country we’re becoming.

Kamala determined that the "root cause" of immigration into the US is extensive corruption in people's home countries.

Apparently the solution is to make the US just as corrupt as those shithole countries.

17 posted on 01/30/2022 8:40:52 AM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: No name given

I do care if she is legal or not. Don’t let any one else shame you for asking.


18 posted on 01/30/2022 8:44:26 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: kearnyirish2

In order for Americans to begin having more children the government first needs to get off their backs, which they will not do because the government needs the money to pay the grifters. A vicious circle.


19 posted on 01/30/2022 8:46:13 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Certain areas of the U.S. are “no go” zones. Avoid them. Even blue states are not that bad once you get out of the big cities, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington are both fine.


20 posted on 01/30/2022 8:46:40 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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