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

[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.

[frank ballenger]

Rest in peace.

[No name given]

Did they come legally?

[Mr. Lucky]

So, ya figure she deserved it?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Did they come legally?

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

[LouAvul]

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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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.

[skeeter]

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.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Were any Americans hurt?

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

[Roman_War_Criminal]

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.

[wac3rd]

Come on man!

[kearnyirish2]

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..

[kearnyirish2]

“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.

[ConservativeMind]

We need to wear these are all times:

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

[brownsfan]

Unimportant to the people running Chicago, and this country.

[stormhill]

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

[cockroach_magoo]

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.

[KC_Conspirator]

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

[skeeter]

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.

[MinorityRepublican]

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.