Meet Ricardo Mejia

Meet Ricardo Leonel Mejia, 35.  Ricardo made the news recently.  See if you can guess why.

• He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics
• He was named "artist of the year" in Los Angeles
• He was given a commendation for his work with police to bust a drug ring
• He was named Democrat of the Year for "doing the jobs Americans don't want to do"
• He's an illegal alien from El Salvador who was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with an 11-year-old in Virginia

 

Yeah, the last one.  A judge sentenced Mejia to 75 years in prison, but immediately suspended 45 years, saying it wasn't Mejia's fault that he was separated from his family and girlfriend in El Salvador.  The Soros-backed District Attorney agreed. 

The ACLU immediately appealed, claiming their client was suffering from "great mental distress because he missed his family and girlfriend back home" and that the separation wasn't his fault.  Also that in his home country having sex with 11-year-olds was "a gray area of the law."

Maryland Democrat senator Chris Van Hollen immediately asked the judge to consider probation, saying Mejia was a "Virginia man" who had "strong ties to the community and had never broken any law before now."  When the mother of the 11-year-old girl pointed out that Mejia was in the U.S. illegally, the judge threatened her with contempt of court for hate speech, quoting congresswoman and noted legal scholar AOC that entering the U.S. illegally is not a crime.

Democrat senator Elizabeth Warren asked the judge to suspend the sentence entirely, saying Mejia "identifies as a Native American female," which made "her" an oppressed minority who should be protected by Title IX of the Education Amendments of the Civil Rights Act. 

Jay Jones, who was just elected Attorney-General of Virginia despite urging that the former GOP Speaker of the House be killed, said it was unreasonable to charge any "undocumented American" with crimes, since they can't possibly be know all the laws in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which fills 65 feet of shelf space.  The newly elected Democrat female governor of Virginia agreed.

Finally, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris said "Unlike sexist Rethuglicans, the Democrat Party is a champion of female rights.  This young woman chose to have physical relations with a much older man.  Our laws against men having sex with younger women are outdated and motivated by cultural oppression, and must be changed.  It would be tragic to ruin this poor undocumented American's life for fulfilling this young woman's dream of an affair with an exciting older man of color.  Perhaps her affair with a much older man will even lead her to public office someday."

Now: How much of the above is sarc, and how much is true?