Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin declared that “enough is enough” in calling out the Biden-Harris administration for the failures at the southern U.S. border.
The Republican governor blasted the “open border policies” in reaction to the terrible crimes against two young children allegedly committed by a previously deported Salvadoran illegal alien.
“Another despicable crime committed by an illegal immigrant who is not supposed to be here,” Youngkin commented on X, referring to Franklin Arquimedes Viera-Guevara who was arrested in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Another despicable crime committed by an illegal immigrant who is not supposed to be here. Too many innocent Virginians have suffered under the open border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration. Local officials in Fairfax County must uphold their duty to cooperate with ICE… https://t.co/OIUlGCeIjz
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) September 5, 2024
“Too many innocent Virginians have suffered under the open border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Youngkin wrote. “Local officials in Fairfax County must uphold their duty to cooperate with ICE and keep Virginians safe. Enough is enough.”
A report of alleged child neglect brought the Fairfax County Police to an apartment in Groveton, Virginia, on Aug. 15 where they found two brothers, ages 7 and 9, chained up at their ankles. Viera-Guevara and the mother of the boys, Wendi Del Cid Rodriguez, 46, were arrested and charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction.
“Franklin Arquimedes Viera-Guevara is an unlawfully present 29-year-old Salvadoran national. U.S. Border Patrol arrested Viera on Nov. 1, 2018, after he unlawfully entered the United States near McAllen, Texas,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement.
He was deported to El Salvador on Feb. 1, 2019, but he illegally re-entered the U.S. “on an unknown date at an unknown location and without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official,” Fox News reported.
After the arrest, an immigration detainer was filed against Guevara with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center by Enforcement and Removal Operations, Washington, D.C.
Virginia’s governor has also called out liberal sheriffs for “neglecting their duty” and not cooperating with ICE by turning over criminal illegal migrants.
“Virginia is not a sanctuary state. It is unacceptable that local officials refuse to cooperate with ICE in holding illegal immigrants accountable,” Youngkin wrote on X without specifying any particular sheriff’s office.
“They are neglecting their duty to serve and protect Virginians and putting our entire commonwealth at risk,” he said.
“ICE says they arrested a Bolivian national convicted of sex crimes against a Virginia child and that the Fairfax County Sheriff refused to honor three immigration detainers and released the convicted sex offender back into the community,” WJLA reporter Nick Minock posted on X last month.
ICE says they arrested a Bolivian national convicted of sex crimes against a Virginia child and that the Fairfax County Sheriff refused to honor three immigration detainers and released the convicted sex offender back into the community.
– ERO Washington, DC. says they lodged… pic.twitter.com/3tcF4A6O6Q
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 26, 2024
In July, a Fairfax County judge “sentenced 36-year-old Jose Fabricio Veizaga-Vargas to six months in jail for sexual assault of a child, and then the court suspended all six months of the sentence and the Fairfax County Sheriff refused to honor an immigration detainer,” the post noted.
He was arrested in August for possession of child pornography “and the Fairfax County Sheriff refused to honor yet another detainer, according to ERO DC.,” Minock reported.
“Liberal Fairfax County, home to many federal workers in Washington, D.C., has a reputation for thumbing its nose at ICE and its ‘detainers,’ or requests to hold illegal criminals for ICE officers to pick up,” the Washington Examiner noted. “According to a recent report, just three of the 725 illegal migrant inmates at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center sought by ICE were turned over, drawing criticism from ICE.”
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