Virginia Dems double down on ICE cooperation after Spanberger rejects ICE detainer
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Democrats in the Virginia state legislature have taken steps to advance legislation aimed at limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts and cooperation with local police just days after Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger said an unauthorized ICE detainer would not be enough to hand an illegal alien accused of being a murderer, with more than 30 criminal charges against him, over federal officials.
The majority of the Senate and the House Democrats took procedural steps and voted in favor of bills against ICE this week including Democrats in their inner districts, or the part inside Fairfax County, where Stephanie Minter was killed by Abdul Jalloh, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone, the police had warned the representative of the Democrats in Fair Descanors County, which is necessary in Fair Descanors County. record.
However, Jalloh was brought back to the streets, and he killed Minter. Now, Spanberger is forcing ICE to get a warrant to serve him. Meanwhile, a similar event in Fairfax County a few weeks ago, after Descano’s office released a criminal alien who was detained by ICE in jail, who a few days later killed a man.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger is under fire for denying an ICE detainer without a warrant to a criminal extrajudicial killer, and just days later Virginia Democrats are continuing to implement anti-ICE cooperation laws.
“The tone is unbelievable,” Sean Kennedy, president of Virginias for Safe Communities, told Fox News Digital. Del. Thomas Garrett, R-56, also called out Democrats this week for officials’ failure to heed warnings to imprison Jalloh, noting that he has had more than 150 interactions with law enforcement and more than 30 lawsuits on his behalf, many of which were later dropped.
Garrett also pointed out how DA Descano’s website shows that “wherever possible” he will make charging or pleading decisions that “limit or avoid immigration consequences.”
Yesterday, “18 delegates representing Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria voted to make it harder, not easier, harder, to turn over illegal, but violent, illegal criminals to ICE,” Garrett said in a low-key speech this week, according to Northern Virginia news station WJLA. “More electric lights? They told us that we don’t participate in voting that way.”
Many of these bills were issued shortly after the Spanberger Government took office in January.
Among the bills advanced this week, with a number of procedural votes, would limit ICE operations, including HB 1441. HB 1441, introduced shortly after Gov. With Spanberger taking office, it will require certain conditions that make it more difficult for ICE to file enough detainer requests to apprehend criminals as illegal aliens. Other bills advanced this week include proposals to bar ICE from making arrests in courthouses or within 40 feet of a polling place. Another bill would prohibit ICE officers from wearing face masks.
POLICE WARNED PROSECUTORS 3 TIMES ABOUT ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BEFORE HE KILLED MOTHER VIRGINIA.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano is seen. (Sarah Voisin/Getty Images)
“A lot of these people hate Steve Descano, but they’re all on the same team,” Kennedy said, referring to some Fairfax County-area Democrats who took steps to advance anti-ICE bills in the days after Minter’s murder.
Fox News Digital reached out to several Virginia Democratic legislators, in the House and Senate, who took steps to advance anti-ICE bills this week. Virginia State Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell’s office suggested that their proposed bill aimed at requiring a higher facility for ICE detainers would prioritize deporting violent illegal immigrants.
“Our pending legislation attempts to focus ICE on the President’s campaign promise to focus on arresting and deporting violent undocumented immigrants like Abdul Jalloh who was detained by ICE in 2018 and is now eligible for deportation for 10 years,” Surovell’s office said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Maybe you should ask ICE why they didn’t deport him the first time Trump’s ICE found him in 2018 or detain him for the 8 times he’s been arrested since 2023?”
Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old man from Sierra Leone who DHS says entered the US illegally in 2012, was arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death a 41-year-old woman in Fairfax County and has an extensive criminal record. (Department of Homeland Security/Getty Images)
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But Virginia’s Republican state legislators have indicated they have a different take.
“Just weeks after Governor Spanberger chose to end the Commonwealth’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities, a woman has died,” said Del. Delores Oates, R-31, on the Virginia House floor this week, according to a transcript posted online by Northern Virginia news station WJLA. Oates was referring to Spanberger’s executive order to end 287(g) programs that allowed local police and immigration officials to cooperate more easily. “That’s not a coincidence, that’s a result.”
“I’ve heard my colleagues overseas say they don’t want ICE arrests in public places,” Oates continued. “Well, fine. Then let’s do the right thing – work with federal authorities to arrest and remove violent criminals while they’re incarcerated. That’s safer for our communities. It’s safer for law enforcement. And it’s the most important way to deal with crime.”
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