Fox tries to make a new Willie Horton. By Hal M. Brown

Fox News is attempting to turn the man shown above into Willie Horton.

You can watch the segment I watched this morning here.

Here’s an excerpt from the Fox News article:

The families of the victims of an Orange County, Calif., high-speed car crash are sending letters to the state to keep an illegal immigrant convicted felon behind bars, as he’s expected to be released from prison over six years before his 10-year sentence is up.

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, 43, was driving drunk, high, and speeding at nearly 100mph on the 405 freeway in Orange County in November 2021, when he crashed into a car being driven by a young couple, 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin, killing them both as they burned alive. In 2022, he was convicted of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

"It's disgusting. You have two young, unbelievable future, productive American citizens killed for nothing and that illegal immigrant who already has been deported twice is going to be released again? For what? If even he is deported, he will come back," Anatoly Varfolomeev, the father of Anya, told Fox News in an interview. He has not changed Anya’s room since her death.

There is a huge diffrence between Willie Horton and this man. Horton was a violent criminal who was paroled and then went on to commit violent crimes. This man had been convicted of a DUI which resulted in a crash that killed two people.

Fox is focusing on the DUI deaths and the reactions of the fathers to the perpetrator’s pending released.

The man who did this, conveniently for Fox and MAGA world, has brown skin and a Latin middle and last name.

Despite the chyron, which suggests he has already been released, this is not scheduled to occur until July:

Considering the following it seems likely that Ortega-Anguiano won’t see the light of day as a free man but will go from prison into ICE custody and that a big show will be made of deporting him.

"An immigration judge ordered Ortega removed Nov. 3, 2014; he filed several unsuccessful appeals and was taken into ICE custody Dec. 2, 2016, and removed to Mexico the same day. Ortega attempted to reenter the United States Feb. 2, 2018, near Otay Mesa, California by presenting a counterfeit document; he was paroled into the U.S. pending criminal prosecution for illegal reentry after removal. An immigration official issued Ortega an expedited removal order and removed him June 1, 2018, to Mexico; after his latest removal, he again illegally reentered the U.S. on an unknown date and location. ICE issued a detainer with the Orange County Jail, California, Nov. 27, 2021, where he was being held on vehicular manslaughter charges at the time," it continues.

Unfortunately for Trump he’s an alcoholic whose crime was vehicular manslaughter and not a violent gang member. You can bet that if he had gang connections Fox News would have dredged up this information. Still, because he has a history of making it back into the United States illegally from Mexico, Trump could say that to assure this doesn’t happen he will be ordering him deported to the Salvadoran prison despite the fact that he has every legal right to live as a free man in the United States.

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