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From left, Cheryl Minter, former Virginia attorney general Jason S. Miyares, Fairfax County Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Stephen Descano and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid are sworn in to testify on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Congressional Republicans hammered the prosecutor of Virginia\u2019s largest county Thursday during a House subcommittee hearing on criminal justice and immigration, the latest action targeting liberal local officials to attack broader Democratic policies.<\/p>

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What emerged during the more than two-hour-long hearing were two contrasting views of Fairfax County, with Republicans depicting the community of 1.1 million residents as a place whose leaders are willing to allow people in the country illegally get away with crimes while Democrats argued that local policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration officials keep residents safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a coward,\u201d Rep. Brad Knott (R-North Carolina), a former prosecutor, told Fairfax County Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Steve Descano (D) during the hearing, criticizing his office for dropping a case against a native of Honduras who had been accused of attempting to abduct a 4-year-old girl in 2023.<\/p>\n

Descano tried to explain the lack of evidence that led to the decision, including the <\/b>child\u2019s mother <\/b>not wanting her to have to testify, but Knott admonished him to \u201cquit talking\u201d and, moments later, to \u201cbe quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clash came a week after the Justice Department, following news of several high-profile cases involving immigrants, announced it has launched an investigation into a long-standing policy in Descano\u2019s office of considering the immigration consequences to defendants and their families in criminal cases. The policy mirrors others in blue jurisdictions and applies mainly to minor offenses. Republicans on the panel attempted to link it to cases in which alleged perpetrators of serious crimes escaped punishment.<\/p>\n

One of the cases Republicans highlighted was that of Hyrum Baquedano-Rodriguez, the Honduran national who was accused of attempting to kidnap the girl after breaking into her family\u2019s apartment. Baquedano-Rodriguez was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol after entering the United States in 2018, and a judge later released him on an immigration bond, according to the Department of Homeland Security. He had been convicted of six misdemeanor crimes in Fairfax County in the three years before his arrest on the abduction charge.<\/p>\n

Descano\u2019s office proposed two plea deals in the case, each calling for two years in prison, after it determined that a lack of evidence would make it hard to convict Baquedano-Rodriguez on charges that called for a longer prison sentence. Both plea deals were rejected by circuit court judges as too lenient. After the second ruling, Descano\u2019s office dropped the charges entirely. That same day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Baquedano-Rodriguez as he was being released from jail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great example of a case where \u2014 \u201d Descano said, attempting to explain to Knott the circumstances around his office\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve prosecuted cases,\u201d Knott said, cutting in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you understand cases that don\u2019t have strong evidence,\u201d Descano said as Knott continued talking over him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you dismiss a case, what happens to that defendant?\u201d Knott said. \u201cHe walks free. A disgusting, perverted individual preying on children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discussion didn\u2019t delve into the details of the case, in which court transcripts show the victim\u2019s mother told prosecutors she wanted to avoid having her then-6-year-old daughter relive the event to provide testimony. A thumb and palm print on a window were linked to Baquedano-Rodriguez, but footprints at the scene did not match shoes he was wearing when arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cProsecutors twice tried to convict the defendant of a felony and secure accountability on behalf of the victim, and we were disappointed with the judge\u2019s decision to reject what we viewed as the best outcome available,\u201d Laura Birnbaum, Descano\u2019s chief of staff, said in an email after the hearing.<\/p>\n

Republicans during the hearing tried to connect the case of Baquedano-Rodriguez and others to the Fairfax County Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney\u2019s office\u2019s policy of considering immigration consequences during prosecutions.<\/p>\n

Other jurisdictions, including California, have adopted such policies, which are aimed at promoting commensurate consequences for citizens and immigrants convicted of similar crimes. \u201cFor the noncitizen defendant,\u201d a 2020 advisory from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center says, \u201cthe consequences of a criminal conviction may include mandatory deportation, compulsory indefinite detention in an immigration facility, loss of a green card, inability to travel internationally, and preclusion from obtaining future immigration status such as a green card or U.S. citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder certain circumstances, prosecutors may decide that these additional consequences are merited based on the characteristics of the case or the defendant,\u201d the advisory says, \u201cbut often these consequences may be deemed excessive in light of the underlying offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Descano\u2019s office\u2019s policy is that prosecutors must consider such consequences \u201cwhere possible and where doing so accords with justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

In cases of violence or great harm to a victim, consideration of such consequences \u201cwill be minimal,\u201d the policy says. It is aimed instead at cases \u201cwhere the offense is less serious and there is no identifiable victim.\u201d Prosecutors in these minor cases \u201chave greater latitude in negotiating a resolution that takes adverse immigration consequences into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the policy, the overall case resolution \u201cwill not be better than a resolution offered to a defendant that does not face such collateral issues,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n

Those nuances did not find their way into Thursday\u2019s hearing, as Republicans took aim at a line on Descano\u2019s campaign website from before he was first elected in 2019 that his office would \u201ctake immigration consequences into account when making charging and plea decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hearing was part of a series of Republican congressional inquiries into local policies in Democratically controlled Northern Virginia counties.<\/p>

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Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D), the commonwealth\u2019s attorney in nearby Arlington County, has been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee over her office\u2019s handling of alleged threats made to White House senior adviser Stephen Miller and his family.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Dehghani-Tafti determined<\/a> that there was \u201cinsufficient evidence\u201d to conclude the Virginia activist who had shared Miller\u2019s home address on fliers she passed out did so with intent to harass Miller. Proceeding with charges would violate the activist\u2019s constitutionally protected free speech rights and \u201crisk having a chilling effect on others wishing to engage in peaceful political protest,\u201d the prosecutor wrote in a court document.<\/p>\n

In Loudoun County, where there has been a backlash<\/a> over policies related to transgender students, the school system superintendent was recently called to testify in another congressional committee hearing titled \u201cBreaking Trust: Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America\u2019s Schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Thursday\u2019s hearing, Cheryl Minter testified about her daughter Stephanie Minter, 41, who was fatally stabbed at a Fairfax County bus stop in February by Abdul Jalloh, a native of Sierra Leone who federal officials say entered the United States illegally in 2012.<\/p>\n

Before that incident, Jalloh had been arrested over 40 times since 2017 \u2014 including on suspicion of assault and battery, malicious wounding and rape. ICE took him into custody in 2018, but its officials said they were forced to release him after 702 days, following a judge\u2019s ruling that he could not be removed to his home country.<\/p>\n

He is now again in jail and faces a second-degree murder charge in Minter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

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Miyares comforts Minter, whose daughter was fatally stabbed at a Fairfax County bus stop in February. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cWe can be a community that is both caring and responsible,\u201d Minter told the committee. \u201cWe can have policies that protect people and also keep our streets safe. But that means we must act. We must listen when there are warnings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle addressed Minter directly, offering condolences and thanking her for her courage in appearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the father of two daughters, I can\u2019t imagine what you\u2019re going through, what you will go through,\u201d Knott told her. \u201cAnd candidly, I would not be acting as civilly with some of the people you\u2019re seated with had I suffered what you\u2019ve had to endure.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

Also mentioned was the case of Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old native of El Salvador who was convicted in April of groping at least nine female classmates at Fairfax High School.<\/p>\n

After Flores Ortiz was arrested, the Education Department<\/a> launched an investigation into how Fairfax County Schools handled the allegations of assault. The school system launched its own inquiry into the incidents. A Circuit Court judge sentenced Flores Ortiz to nearly a year of detention for the misdemeanor charges.<\/p>\n

Republicans brought up each case in the context of Descano\u2019s policy, which <\/b>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called \u201cunbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democrats can say all they want, \u2018Well, why are we having another hearing?\u2019 We\u2019re having a hearing on this because this is the dumbest thing we\u2019ve ever heard,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n

His colleagues also attacked Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid (D) over a policy in her office that prohibits holding immigrant inmates beyond their sentences for ICE to retrieve them unless ordered to do so by a judge.<\/p>\n

Democrats defended both officials, as each side used the county\u2019s policies as a proxy for the broader debate over immigration reform.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-New York) accused Republicans of trying to distract from the Trump administration\u2019s \u201creckless, chaotic, and inhumane immigration policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to shine a spotlight on Fairfax County, one of the safest places in the country for a county of its size,\u201d Nadler said, \u201cbecause they think it\u2019s a good opportunity to engage in their favorite sport of fearmongering and demagoguery.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told the lawmakers they should be focused on broader immigration reform and urging the Trump administration to target serious criminals for deportation, rather than \u201cracially profiling Americans at Home Depots\u201d and \u201carresting spouses of U.S. citizens at green card interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf illegal immigrants in Fairfax were their own city, it would have a lower homicide rate than 90 percent of America\u2019s largest cities and lower than the country\u2019s homicide rate overall,\u201d Bier said. \u201cNationwide, illegal immigrants are half as likely to commit serious crimes for which they\u2019re serving time as U.S.-born Americans.\u201d<\/p>

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The hearing ended with an invitation for both sides to submit further testimony.<\/p>\n

Salvador Rizzo contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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