One in five Fairfax County residents is an illegal immigrant or lives with one, expert testifies

Washington Examiner ^ | 5/14/2026 | Mia Cathell

[Brian Griffin]

From October 2022 to February 2025, the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center released more than a thousand deportable illegal immigrants onto the streets in direct defiance of over 1,150 immigration detainers lodged with local officials, according to ICE records obtained by the CIS.

In terms of noncompliance, the CIS reported that Fairfax County, over that period, outpaced many other uncooperative facilities of much larger U.S. cities, including San Francisco County Jail at No. 9 with 462 declined detainers, Minnesota's Hennepin County Jail at No. 11 with 363, and New York City’s Rikers Island at No. 16 with 237.

[ridesthemiles]

MY CALCULATION IS CLOSER TO 60-65 MILLION.

[ridesthemiles]

SO DID OBAMA.

[Bikkuri]

60-80

[eyeamok]

8 USC 1324, start Arresting and Prosecuting State Officials

[vivenne]

The ICE guy who just retired, forgot name, said it was closer to 100 million. That’s 1/3 of our country. Well done politicians.

[Vaduz]

Yes few number counts go back more then 15 years.

[vivenne]

In VA? In Fairfax County? Probably all of them.

[Sicon]

"The MSM used the 12M number for illegals for like 25 years. And they did it with a straight face."

Seems like there's that many at Costco alone.

[ronniesgal]

we left a year ago..... what a blessing to be out of Va after 30+ years.
Northern Va is an expensive nightmare.

[MtnClimber]

20% illegal - welcome to Biden’s America, with crime “prosecuted” by Soros-soft-on-crime “prosecutors”

The orchestration of leftist "indirect" redistribution of wealth.

[Vigilanteman]

It can be very nice if you can afford to have your groceries delivered to your door and send your kids to one of those gated preppy schools with $45,000 annual tuition give or take $3,000.

[Brian Griffin]

“Interesting, but it doesn’t show changes in illegal immigrant population. Am I missing something?”

I only claimed alterations.

Various scams are in operation to give presumptive and actual legality.

[zek157]

Paving the front yard for parking is one subtle sign of excess occupancy.

[T.B. Yoits]

Northern Virginia belongs to America’s Deep State and CIA

And in true globalist elitist fashion, there's a ruling class and a peasant class, with no middle class.

[simpson96]

One in five.

Sounds like a lovely place for a working taxpayer to live.

Not.