Fairfax County Bends to Public Outrage
But this story should not be allowed to die until its sanctuary policies are reversed
By Dan Cadman on October 4, 2019
On September 21, Fairfax County, Va., officials suspended a police officer after he determined via database checks that an individual involved in a vehicle accident he was investigating was wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He did the right thing by turning over that individual — who had failed to appear for his removal hearing in front of an immigration judge — to ICE.
Think about that. If an individual failed to appear before a state judge, who then issued a bench warrant, no one would question that the right thing to do was to take him into custody to respond to his judicial charges. Yet this officer was suspended by county authorities solely because they chose not to acknowledge the legitimacy of an immigration court hearing, even though it's underwritten by federal law. Needless to say, Fairfax County, like Montgomery County, Md., is a so-called sanctuary jurisdiction and, just as in Montgomery County, has proven itself completely clueless by its conduct. One wonders what's hidden behind the screen in Fairfax that we're not privy to. How many violent criminals or sexual predators has Fairfax County released rather than honor ICE detainers? It was only when the police and prosecutors (and some of the victims) in Montgomery County got fed up and started feeding selected information to the media that we came to know exactly how much Montgomery County's sanctuary policies had damaged community safety and led to more victims.
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