Rep. Brandon Gill on Thursday shredded leftist Fairfax County, Virginia, Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano for letting criminal illegal aliens, including child rapists, escape justice and releasing them back into the community.
During testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee, Gill forced the pro-illegal alien prosecutor to admit that his office’s policy puts weight into defendants’ immigration status and so-called “collateral immigration consequences” when making prosecutorial decisions, including charges, plea bargains, and sentencing.
This policy was seemingly used in the case of Jose Cortez Mendez, a Guatemalan illegal alien arrested in March 2024, who was charged with “carnal knowledge of a 13 to 14-year-old” and received reduced misdemeanor charges with only 90 days in prison.
When Gill pressed Descano on why the illegal alien was given a slap on the wrist for raping a young teenage child, Descano squirmed and repeatedly refused to answer the question of whether or not Mendez was given special treatment.
Eventually, Descano admitted he didn’t know whether the prosecution considered the suspect’s immigration status in the case. “I don’t believe so,” Descano said when grilled on whether or not the charging decision was made based on the suspect’s immigration status. He further attempted to evade responsibility by noting that he wasn’t the lead prosecutor in the case.
Still, Descano claimed that the prosecutor “should not have” taken the defendant’s immigration status into account and that the absurd policy may have been abused under his watch.
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As The Gateway Pundit reported, Descano testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement this morning about preferential treatment toward illegal alien criminals.
This comes after the murder of Stephanie Minter, 41, who was stabbed to death in February by an illegal alien from Sierra Leone with over thirty arrests.
Under the Soros-backed prosecutors, crimes like this by illegal aliens frequently occur in Fairfax County.
The Justice Department has also opened a civil rights investigation into the prosecutor’s office for protecting criminal illegal aliens.
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