The circumstance of Virginia has been crash via any other violent crime, allegedly dedicated via an unlawful immigrant, amid an ongoing debate about “sanctuary” insurance policies around the nation and in some portions of the circumstance.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showed to Fox Information that the suspect arrested for the appalling carjacking of a grandmother in Virginia on Sunday is an unlawful immigrant from El Salvador.
Jose Aguilar-Martinez, 21, is charged within the appalling Sunday come across that resulted within the dying of 54-year-old Melody Waldecker, a grandmother, FOX 5 DC reported.
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Melody Waldecker and Jose Aguilar-Martinez (Handout)
Consistent with the Loudon County Sheriff’s Workplace, Aguilar-Martinez is accused of carjacking Waldecker on July 28. Investigators aspiring she was once struck via her personal car because the suspected carjacker fled the scene. ICE showed that Aguilar-Martinez entered the U.S. as a “gotaway,” which means he entered the U.S. with out being captured via Border Patrol.
The company stated it has positioned a detainer request on him with native government, which is a request that he be transferred into ICE custody when he’s sooner or later excused from native custody.
The sheriff’s administrative center stated in an replace that Aguilar-Martinez had a California driving force’s license. California is a sanctuary circumstance and has a coverage that permits unlawful immigrants to procure licenses.
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The incident follows any other crime allegedly involving immigrants within the circumstance. No less than two of the boys accused of murdering a person and retirement his frame akin a strolling path in Oakton, Virginia, are unlawful immigrants, ABC 7 reported.
Maudin Anibal Guzman-Videz is a Honduran local who entered in 2018 and was once excused into the U.S., prior to being ordered got rid of in 2019 but remained within the nation, in step with a observation equipped to Fox Information Virtual via ICE.
Consistent with the company, he has more than one detainers in opposition to him in Fairfax County, however the ones have no longer been venerated. He has a rap sheet that features a conviction for attack and getting into to dedicate housebreaking. Then again, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Workplace instructed 7News that ICE didn’t ship a detainer to its administrative center.
It has additionally issued a long observation outlining the way it defers to the circumstance lawyer common’s opinion {that a} detainer is just a request, and that it’s going to simplest honor a detainer if ICE additionally has a judicial warrant.
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“ICE knows that should they wish to take one of these offenders into custody, all that is required on their part is a judicial warrant authorizing arrest. ICE is notified every time an undocumented immigrant is taken into our custody. Yet, time and again, they make no effort to secure a warrant that would give judicial authority to detain. This inaction is a failure of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, not of the Sheriff’s Office,” the administrative center stated.
“The status of a person as an inmate or an undocumented immigrant does not diminish their right to be free from unlawful seizure, nor does it eliminate their access to due process and equal protection,” the sheriff wrote.
That has introduced complaint from alternative officers within the circumstance, who known as the reasoning a “cop-out.” The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Workplace has had 725 undocumented immigrants in prison over the time yr, however simplest 3 have been transferred to ICE, in step with 7 Information.
ICE showed to Fox Information Virtual {that a} 2nd matter arrested within the incident, Wilmer Adalid Guzman-Videz, is an unlawful immigrant from Honduras who entered illegally in 2022 and was once excused with a understand to look. He was once arrested in Washington, D.C., and ICE has lodged a detainer with the town’s police.
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Virginia is unhidden as a possible swing circumstance, with some polls suggesting it may well be in succeed in for former President Trump; and unlawful immigration has persistently registered as a govern factor of shock for citizens forward of the 2024 election.
Fox Information’ Invoice Melugin, Landon Mion and Louis Casiano contributed to this file.
