Posted on 02/01/2026 3:11:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In December, Marvin Morales‑Ortez walked out of a Fairfax County, Va., jail a free man.
He shouldn’t have.
Morales‑Ortez was in the country illegally; he was in jail on serious charges, including for a violent assault and a firearm offense.
Those charges were dropped.
He was released.
Within 24 hours, police say, he murdered a man.
This was not bad luck.
It was policy.
Fairfax’s Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano has openly promised to limit or avoid “immigration consequences” when charging criminals.
In other words, his office will treat illegal immigrants more leniently than US citizens.
Descano’s policy directs his prosecutors to consider “the detrimental impact that deportation/removal has on the families and communities those removed or deported leave behind.”
Dozens of progressive prosecutors have adopted similar policies to thwart federal laws that make noncitizens deportable if convicted of certain crimes.
And bipartisan majorities in Congress recently expanded that list of offenses after an illegal alien murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
By dropping or reducing charges, these prosecutors help keep these criminals off ICE’s radar — if not totally out of their reach.
To do that, these district attorneys give criminal aliens preferential treatment at the expense of American citizens.
And that disparate treatment is not only dangerous, it is unlawful under civil-rights law, which bars discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
Since, in effect, these defendants are receiving special consideration unavailable to US citizens, these policies and practices violate the civil rights of the rest of us.
Descano claims he dropped the charges in the first case because a victim failed to appear.
But his office had dropped multiple cases against Morales-Ortez before, including first-degree murder, felony assault on a police officer and other violent offenses.
Again and again, he received leniency.
Again and again,...
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DA’s are the front lines for the dems trying to generate money for dem candidates and voter support. They seem to be working together with blue State Governors who want to stop ICE from doing the jobs.
Stop ‘letting them’?
Wha?
The ongoing question for the judges, the DAs and the relatives of people here:
Whose side are you on?
Ask at family gatherings: Why do you think it’s a good idea to let violent criminals go?
Sorry to be mean. I have no family gatherings to attend. I haven’t allowed my evil sister in Hyannis, MA to get within hundreds of miles of me since 1989 at a law office. Everybody else is dead now.
If this happened to one of my relatives the DA would have an open bounty on his head
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