An adult illegal alien who sexually assaulted over a dozen teenage girls in a Virginia high school hallway has been turned over to ICE for deportation — after serving less than six months in county jail for convictions on nine counts of assault and battery.

This is the price of an open border and the sanctuary policies that shield illegal aliens from consequences. American children are paying it.

Israel Flores Ortiz, 19, crossed the southern border from El Salvador in 2024 and was released into the country under the Biden administration's immigration policies, ICE confirmed to WJLA. He was placed in the 11th grade at Fairfax High School — a grown man among minor girls. Over several months, he groped more than a dozen students, some as young as 13, grabbing them "in between their legs" as they walked the hallways, according to a mother of one victim who spoke to WJLA.

"There's a group of about 12 individuals that have reported this assault," the mother told 7News. "It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months."

A ninth-grade victim told WJLA she now constantly looks over her shoulder, afraid of being assaulted again.

Despite being accused of assaulting 13 girls, Ortiz was charged only with nine misdemeanor counts of assault and battery — not sexual assault. He faced up to nine years behind bars. A judge gave him 360 days, and with time served, he had roughly 135 days left. He was released from Fairfax County custody on Monday at 11:40 a.m., several days before his scheduled Sept. 3 release date. The reason for the early release remains unexplained, according to both Baltimore News and WJLA.

ICE had issued a detainer on Ortiz, but the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office — operating under sanctuary policy — would not confirm whether it would be honored. On Monday, county officials finally transferred him to federal custody. He now faces deportation.

The Department of Homeland Security did not mince words. "This adult criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls," DHS said in a statement reported by the Gateway Pundit. "His sentencing to only 180 days for his convictions for nine counts of assault and battery is nothing more than a slap on the wrist."

DHS called out Governor Spanberger and "fellow sanctuary politicians" directly, urging them not to "release this sexual predator from jail back into our communities to victimize more innocent women."

The framing gap across outlets is telling. The Gateway Pundit called Ortiz what he is — an illegal alien — and spotlighted Biden's border policies as the enabling cause. Baltimore News and WJLA both used "illegal immigrant" and treated the early release as a procedural curiosity rather than a consequence of sanctuary law that nearly let a predator walk free before ICE could act.

Fairfax County's sanctuary posture meant a detainer went unacknowledged until public pressure and federal attention forced the transfer. The misdemeanor charging decision meant a serial predator of children walked in months, not years. And the border policy that let Ortiz into the country in the first place remains unreformed.

The girls at Fairfax High will carry this longer than Ortiz carried his sentence. The question is whether any official — county, state, or federal — will answer for the policies that put him in that hallway.