It's On: ICE Forces a Showdown With Virginia's Sanctuary Machine After Fairfax Horror
It's On: ICE Forces a Showdown With Virginia's Sanctuary Machine After Fairfax Horror
By Teri Christoph | 3:12 PM on July 07, 2026
There's a showdown brewing between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the sanctuary county of Fairfax, Virginia, whose George Soros-funded prosecutor, Steve Descano, has repeatedly released violent illegals back into the community.
The latest case garnering headlines involves an illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested last week for the rape and "strongarm kidnapping" of a woman in Fairfax. That illegal, Juan Arevalo Mendez, is a textbook case for how sanctuary city policies like those espoused by Descano – and reinforced by Virginia's Democrat governor, Abigail Spanberger – put the commonwealth's residents in danger every day.
Fox News' Bill Melugin had the details behind Arevalo Mendez's most recent arrest:
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/07/07/ice-showdown-headed-for-fairfax-county-n2204076#google_vignette
