At the height of the Biden border crisis in December 2023, Ortega-Lopez scaled a barbed-wire barrier at Eagle Pass, Texas, to gain entry into the United States,
According to court records cited by Breitbart. Due to overpopulation, he was released from a South Laredo jail center after spending three days there.
After that, he relocated to El Paso to live with five other individuals and started doing odd jobs and working in construction. He eventually met Nancy Cano, the ex-wife of Judge Cano, wh
W extended an invitation to Ortega-Lopez to move into a casita behind the couple’s Las Cruces, New Mexico, house. Since Ortega-Lopez submitted an application for immigration relief.
In April of last year and named the judge’s address as his present location, it seems that he accepted the offer. According to Breitbart, the court “allowed” him to do so.
First, Judge Damian Martinez decided to let him go, allegedly because he didn’t think Judge Cano ‘would simply allow anyone dwell in his property.’
