There’s a showdown brewing between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the sanctuary county of Fairfax, Virginia, whose George Soros-funded prosecutor, Steve Descano, has repeatedly released violent illegals back into the community.
The latest case garnering headlines involves an illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested last week for the rape and “strongarm kidnapping” of a woman in Fairfax. That illegal, Juan Arevalo Mendez, is a textbook case for how sanctuary city policies like those espoused by Descano – and reinforced by Virginia’s Democrat governor, Abigail Spanberger – put the commonwealth’s residents in danger every day.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin had the details behind Arevalo Mendez’s most recent arrest:
NEW: DHS confirms that a suspect arrested and charged with rape and strongarm kidnapping of a woman in Fairfax County, VA is a previously deported Salvadoran illegal alien and ICE has placed a detainer on him with local law enforcement asking them not to release him. DHS says Juan Arevalo Mendez has a lengthy criminal history prior to these charges, including assault, aggravated assault – weapon, strongarm aggravated assault – non-family, aggravated assault with a gun – non-family, drug possession, destruction of property, illegal re-entry, obstructing justice, and making a false report, as well as prior arrests for identity theft, drug possession, and larceny.
DHS statement:
“DHS is calling on Governor Abigail Spanberger and her fellow sanctuary politicians in Fairfax County to commit to not releasing this dangerous criminal from jail, and to instead turn him over to ICE custody so that we can remove him from our nation and end his crime spree in our country. Virginia sanctuary politicians need to stop playing Russian roulette with American lives and work with ICE law enforcement to keep criminals out of our communities.”