Let me get this straight: Victoria Sorocean was convicted in Moldova of premeditated murder with “exceptional cruelty”—torturing someone and throwing them from a ninth-floor window. She got 17 years. But instead of serving her time, she fled Moldova, walked into the United States illegally, and when ICE arrested her in 2020, the system just… let her go.
She didn’t win asylum. She didn’t get some special humanitarian pass. What she did was weaponize the asylum appeals process as a stalling tactic—and it worked. After years of legal delays and claims, the Biden administration released her back into the U.S. in 2022. A convicted torturer and killer was walking around Los Angeles until ICE finally picked her up again on November 4, 2025.
How does that happen? How does someone with a murder conviction for throwing a victim out of a ninth-story window get to just stroll into our neighborhoods? If the system can’t keep THIS level of violent criminal out—or at least locked up once caught—what confidence are we supposed to have in anything they’re telling us about border security?
This isn’t an “oops, paperwork” mistake. This is what happens when the system treats dangerous criminals like paperwork instead of threats. When asylum becomes a loophole instead of a lifeline. When “legal process” means a convicted killer gets more rights than the communities she’s walking through.
Victoria Sorocean’s case isn’t just about one person. It’s a perfect example of a system that’s either broken beyond repair or working exactly as designed—and I’m not sure which answer is worse.
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