FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia — Leaders in Fairfax County are set to be grilled in front of Congress for the Northern Virginia county’s policies on illegal immigration. The congressional hearing comes as numerous illegal immigrants in Fairfax County have been charged with crimes from murder to assault in the past two months.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid have agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, the House Judiciary Committee announced on Friday.
The hearing, “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies,” will take place at 10 a.m. on May 14.
Democrat-run Fairfax County prosecutor and sheriff will testify before the Committee on May 14th at 10:00 a.m. about their dangerous sanctuary city policies.
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Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), sent letters inviting Descano and Kincaid to testify last month.
“The hearing will examine how state and local policies that prohibit cooperation with federal immigration authorities hurt public safety,” Jordan and McClintock’s letter reads. “Your testimony will assist the Committee and Subcommittee in developing legislative reforms to address sanctuary jurisdictions.”
The hearing was scheduled after the fatal stabbing of Stephanie Minter at a bus stop, allegedly by Abdul Jalloh, who came to America illegally from Sierra Leone. The Department of Homeland Security revealed the 32-year-old illegal immigrant has more than 30 prior arrests.
“We have a George Soros-funded prosecutor, Steve Descano, who just basically chooses so that illegal immigrants, criminals, don’t get deported,” Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, the Fairfax chapter leader of the Independent Women’s Network, told the Washington Examiner. “Despite being charged with violent crimes, we have a large number of them who go out onto our streets and go off to, for example, commit murder, allegedly, like the one who stabbed Stephanie Minter at the bus stop.”
Three out of four people facing murder trials in Fairfax County so far this year are illegal immigrants, according to the DHS.
Fairfax County police arrested Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, accused of stabbing a man to death in his home.
Misael Lopez Gomez, also in the country illegally from Guatemala, allegedly murdered his 3-month-old daughter.
“Our children are sitting ducks,” said Lundquist-Arora, who is a mother of three boys in Fairfax County Public Schools. “With current policies, both in the public schools and at the local level, they are inviting crime into our schools.”
Israel Flores Ortiz, a 19-year-old attending a Fairfax County high school, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, accused of assaulting multiple female students. Ortiz, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, is facing charges for assault and battery.
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“When you have local leaders who seem to have no interest in protecting children, they’re more interested in protecting criminal, illegal adults, it’s mortifying,” Lundquist-Arora said.
The scrutiny of Fairfax County also comes after Descano offered a plea deal to two admitted murderers, one of whom is an illegal immigrant, to serve five years in prison each.