Rep. Brandon Gill on Thursday shredded leftist Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano for letting criminal illegal aliens, including child rapists, escape justice and releasing them back into the community.
During testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee, Gill forced the pro-illegal alien prosecutor to admit that his office’s policy puts weight into defendants’ immigration status and so-called “collateral immigration consequences” when making prosecutorial decisions, including charges, plea bargains, and sentencing.
This policy was seemingly used in the case of Jose Cortez Mendez, a Guatemalan illegal alien arrested in March 2024, who was charged with “carnal knowledge of a 13 to 14-year-old” and received reduced misdemeanor charges with only 90 days in prison.
When Gill pressed Descano on why the illegal alien was given a slap on the wrist for raping a young teenage child, Descano squirmed and repeatedly refused to answer the question of whether or not Mendez was given special treatment.