Analise Ortiz is an Arizona state senator who was elected to office in November 2024.
A week ago, most people in the country probably never heard of her. That’s not an indictment against her; it’s just the unfortunate reality of most politicians elected at the state level. However, Ortiz was catapulted into the national spotlight this week when she gloated in a social media post about sabotaging efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
Ortiz posted on social media on August 5, alerting people to ICE activity. She listed the intersection and when ICE was supposed to be in the area. The post was picked up by the account “Libs of TikTok,” which advocated charging the state senator with a crime. In response, Ortiz reposted it and announced her intentions to disrupt ICE’s efforts to enforce the law and arrest illegal immigrants in the country, many with violent criminal records.
“Yep, when ICE is around, I will alert my community to stay out of the area,” Ortiz posted. “And I’m not f****** scared of you nor Trump’s masked goons.”
Now, take Ortiz’s words and imagine a hypothetical situation in which police officers have identified a murder suspect in Arizona. They are made aware of the suspect’s whereabouts and are closing in on the suspect’s location, yet the state senator from Arizona posts on her social media that police officers are in the area and to avoid a specific location.
That is the same thing that Ortiz did here.
Ortiz’s response is problematic, very problematic. She is actively interfering with law enforcement agencies from doing their jobs. She is endangering people in her community by sabotaging ICE’s efforts to protect American citizens from dangerous people who, in many cases, have extensive criminal records. This includes those in the country illegally with criminal histories of rape, murder, drug trafficking, and other heinous acts.
Consider the words of Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
“Arizona state Sen. Analise Ortiz is siding with vicious cartels, human traffickers, and violent criminals over American citizens,” said McLaughlin. “Notifying the public about ICE law enforcement operations endangers law enforcement and weakens American national security.”
But none of that matters to Ortiz. She doesn’t care about the people who these violent criminals will go on to hurt. Ortiz’s priority is protecting violent illegal immigrants at the expense of innocent Americans. Her allegiance isn’t to the welfare of the people of the U.S.; it is to illegal immigrants. And based on her actions to impede ICE’s efforts, it’s evident that she would rather see illegal immigrants commit violent crimes against innocent Americans than have them arrested and deported out of the country, where they can no longer cause harm.
Sure, Ortiz and her ilk would likely deny this. In her mind, innocent Americans such as Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and others murdered or harmed by illegal immigrants are merely collateral damage in their quest to adhere to radical immigration policies and allow open borders. But this is the very reason that Democrats like Ortiz are the most serious threat to the country’s democracy, a preeminent threat to the country, and a danger to law-abiding citizens everywhere.
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Democrats such as Ortiz make America worse. She should be held accountable and suffer the legal consequences for her actions. Hopefully, such accountability is coming. When McLaughlin was asked if the Arizona state senator could face charges, the DHS assistant secretary replied that it was possible.
“This certainly looks like obstruction of justice,” she added.