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Virginia has become a hotbed for illegal immigrant crime following a string of recent murders.<\/p>\n
In just over a month, three illegal immigrants have been accused of carrying out brutal killings \u2014 including one where the victim was a 3-month-old infant \u2014 in Fairfax County, which has notoriously flouted Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) detainers.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump\u2019s border czar Tom Homan is now calling on sanctuary leaders in the state to get on board to work with ICE. In an appearance on Fox News Thursday, the former ICE director encouraged authorities in the commonwealth to make deals with the feds that mimic Homan\u2019s agreements in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
\u201cElections have consequences,\u201d Homan said of the recent killings. \u201cI lived in Virginia. [Virginia Governor Abigail] Spanberger took over and she moved so far left, she\u2019s not even recognizable anymore. Look, in that city, Fairfax, they\u2019ve been a sanctuary city. I\u2019ve been complaining about them for years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSanctuaries are sanctuaries for criminals and for any politician, or chief of police, or the sheriff, they want to say they\u2019re not gonna enforce federal immigration law, not their job, they can\u2019t honor ICE detainers, they don\u2019t think they\u2019re legal, we can do the same thing we did in Minneapolis. We can do the same thing, talk to the sheriffs, talk to the chiefs. If you don\u2019t want to honor detainers, I get it we can litigate that in courts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\nSanctuary politicians, like @GovernorVA<\/a>, REFUSE to put the safety of American citizens first.<\/p>\n
It is common sense. Sanctuary politicians must cooperate with @ICEgov<\/a> and stop releasing criminals from their jails to create more innocent American victims. pic.twitter.com\/kCo7PttMid<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Homeland Security (@DHSgov) April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Trump sent Homan to Minneapolis following the deaths of anti-ICE activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Homan took on the role of lowering the temperature with the goal of drawing down the number of federal immigration agents deployed to the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n
By the end of his deployment, Homan had brokered what he described as \u201cunprecedented\u201d levels of cooperation with authorities in Minnesota, who he said had agreed to hand over illegal immigrants as soon as they were to be released. Homan said at the time that ICE officers would be strategically stationed nearby, so local authorities didn\u2019t have to hold the inmates longer than local charges would allow.<\/p>\n
Homan is now offering to do the same in Virginia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing illegal about you calling ICE before you release them, and we\u2019ll be there to take custody. You don\u2019t have to hold them one minute past what you would normally hold them on your charges. Just give us a call, it\u2019s free, and we\u2019ll be there. We\u2019ll even strategically locate deportation officers near those jails,\u201d he told Fox News host Will Cain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the success we had in Minneapolis, we got record cooperation there. We can do the same thing in Virginia. But I truly believe they hate Trump more than they care about their public safety because the common sense approach is call us and we\u2019ll be there and take that public safety threat off the street,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Guatemalan illegal immigrant Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, was arrested Friday after he allegedly killed his 3-month-old daughter in Fairfax County, according<\/a>\u00a0to WUSA9.<\/p>\n
Another Guatemalan illegal immigrant, Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly repeatedly stabbed a man to death in Fairfax County, according<\/a>\u00a0to ABC7.<\/p>\n
An illegal immigrant with 30 prior arrests was arrested in February after he allegedly fatally stabbed 41-year-old mother Stephanie Minter. The Sierra Leone national, Abdul Jalloh, 32, allegedly left Minter\u2019s lifeless body at a Fairfax County bus stop when he fled the scene.<\/p>\n
ICE has arrested thousands of illegal immigrants in Virginia who pose threats to \u201cpublic safety,\u201d but has had to operate without the help of local authorities, according to Homan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to go out and look for them, which is dangerous for the community, dangerous for the officer, dangerous for the alien \u2026 we\u2019re gonna keep doing it,\u201d Homan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive us custody in your jail before you release them, and you\u2019re gonna see the crime rate drop significantly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n