A Democratic prosecutor in Virginia’s most populous county let an illegal alien walk free even after he had confessed to participating in a prior murder, and had been charged with malicious wounding. That enabled him to kill another person, notes the Washington Examiner: “Democrats are allowing people to be murdered by illegal immigrants so they can brag that they are not cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is the reality of the most recent case in Fairfax County, Virginia. There, El Salvadoran national Marvin Morales Ortez had been jailed and charged with multiple crimes after ‘maliciously wounding’ someone who was living in the same home with him. When the alleged victim did not show up to testify, Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano’s office dropped the charges, and a judge ordered Ortez to be released. He was then arrested after allegedly murdering the same person he had injured, not even a day after being released,” notes Zachary Faria in the Examiner:
ICE had put a detainer request on Ortez, given that he was an illegal immigrant, but Fairfax County refused to honor it and hand him over to be deported. Now, someone is dead. And this is not the first time there has been an issue with Ortez; Descano dropped murder charges against him from a 2019 killing where he had, according to Descano’s own office, confessed to participating in the murder. He has been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County over the past five years, but Descano has dropped charges against him multiple times.
And, sure enough, he is also an alleged member of MS-13…. How can you be unable to prosecute an alleged MS-13 member after bringing charges against him multiple times? Descano’s office has constantly claimed noncooperation by the alleged victims, as if that is an insurmountable obstacle. But, more importantly, why not just hand him over to ICE, send him back to El Salvador, and never play this cat-and-mouse game where you arrest him for crimes and drop the charges the moment the case is more difficult than a slam dunk?
This guy could have been deported at any time, and yet he was allowed to stay free in Fairfax County through dropped charges and ignored ICE detainers. The Democrats who run Fairfax County are so obsessed with supporting illegal immigration that they allowed an alleged murderer to stay in the country, constantly released him from jail, and watched him allegedly commit another murder in the process.
This is the mindset of Democrats across the country in sanctuary states, cities, and jurisdictions. They care more about protecting the concept of illegal immigration than they do about the lives of the people who are being victimized by illegal immigrants. They would rather protect those criminals and keep them in the country, lumping them in with otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants as the same quality of people, than prevent murders and other crimes committed by those criminals. Democrats are, almost quite literally, willing to let illegal immigrants get away with murder.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano also declined to charge a sex offender who exposed himself to children in a women’s locker room. The sex offender who did this was a tier three registered sex offender who was first charged with indecent liberties in neighboring Arlington County.
Descano has refused to do anything about vandalism at places like George Mason University, located in Fairfax, Virginia. There, students tore down posters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The school stated in response that it had “been advised by the Commonwealth’s Attorney that the conduct does not appear to be criminal in nature,” but that it would address the incident in accordance with its code of conduct.
George Mason University allowed masked pro-Hamas rallies even though Virginia has a law banning public mask-wearing except for Halloween and health reasons, and even though colleges would never tolerate mask-wearing right-wing protesters. This ideological favoritism based on the viewpoint of protesters violates Supreme Court rulings such as Police Department v. Mosley (1972), which said pro-union protesters couldn’t be allowed to picket if other groups weren’t allowed to picket. The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld Virginia’s mask ban,
But left-wing prosecutors like Steve Descano won’t enforce Virginia’s anti-mask law against pro-Hamas protesters. Even though it clearly applied: Code of Virginia § 18.2-422 clearly states, “It shall be unlawful for any person over 16 years of age to, with the intent to conceal his identity, wear any mask, hood or other device whereby a substantial portion of the face is hidden or covered so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, to be or appear in any public place…However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons (i) wearing traditional holiday costume.”
