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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has called on Virginia’s newly elected governor, who leans towards liberal policies, to reconsider the release of undocumented immigrants facing murder charges.
This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that ICE had placed two arrest detainers on Guatemalan nationals accused of serious crimes, requesting that they remain in custody rather than be released.
The first detainer concerns Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, 38, who is currently facing charges of second-degree murder in Fairfax County. According to DHS, Chavarria Muy was apprehended on Monday, following a deadly stabbing incident that took place the previous day.
On the subsequent day, ICE issued another detainer for Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, who is accused of killing his three-month-old daughter last month.
A second detainer was issued the following day for Misael Lopez Gomez, 28, who allegedly murdered his three-month-old daughter last month.
Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called on Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, to not allow the murder suspects to be released back into the community.
‘We need cooperation from sanctuary politicians to stop criminals from being released from jail to perpetrate more crimes and create more innocent victims,’ Bis said.
Spanberger, who is her state’s first female governor, has been in office since January.
Immigration authorities have called on Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger not to free illegal migrants who are murder suspects
The DHS said ICE had issued two arrest detainers for Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy (left) and Misael Lopez Gomez (right) this week
Chavarria Muy is in the US illegally, according to the DHS. The agency said it was unknown when and where he entered the country.
‘Open-border policies yet again have caused another preventable tragedy,’ Bis said.
He was being held without bond in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, according to WUSA9.
Meanwhile, Lopez Gomez told authorities that he illegally crossed the southern border near Albuquerque, New Mexico, in July 2023.
Lopez Gomez was charged with murder after police were called to a home in Bailey’s Crossroads around 7.30pm last Friday, the Fairfax County Police Department said.
His baby daughter wasn’t breathing and was rushed to the hospital, where she was declared dead.
Hospital staff saw signs of abuse, leading to Lopez Gomez’s arrest. He is also jailed at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on no bond.
‘This monster should have never been allowed in our country by the Biden administration,’ Bis said.
The DHS said ICE had lodged an arrest detainer for Lopez Gomez to ‘request sanctuary politicians not release him from jail without notification to ICE.’
Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz, 19, was arrested on nine counts of assault and battery after allegedly groping girls at a high school. ICE also issued a detainer for him
Spanberger, a Democrat, began her term in January. The DHS wrote that she had continued to allow ‘pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia’s streets’Â
Earlier this month, ICE issued a detainer for Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz, 19, from El Salvador.
He was arrested on nine counts of assault and battery and had allegedly groped multiple girls at a high school despite being an adult.
Flores-Ortiz illegally entered the US in 2024, according to the DHS, who added that he was ‘RELEASED into the country under the Biden administration.’
‘This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should not have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls,’ Bis said.
She called on Fairfax County officials, whom she referred to as ‘sanctuary politicians,’ to not release Flores-Ortiz so that he could ‘assault more teenage women.’
‘Unfortunately, Governor Abigail Spanberger ended cooperation with ICE and is siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens,’ Bis added.
The DHS also wrote that Spanberger had continued to ‘allow the release of pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia’s streets.’
‘Law enforcement will continue to risk their lives to arrest these heinous criminals,’ the agency said.
An ICE detainer was also issued for Sierra Leonean illegal migrant Abdul Jalloh, 32. Authorities said he had amassed more than 30 arrests
When ICE issues an arrest detainer, that means a request for a suspect to be held in custody rather than be released
In February, the DHS said ICE also issued a detainer asking Spanberger not to release Sierra Leonean illegal migrant Abdul Jalloh, 32.
Jalloh was arrested in connection to the murder of Stephanie Minter, 41, who was found dead at a Fairfax County bus stop with multiple stab wounds to her upper body.
The DHS said Jalloh was a ‘career criminal illegal alien with more than 30 arrests.’
Jalloh’s criminal history included more than 30 arrests for rape, malicious wounding, firing a weapon, assault, drug possession, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, identity theft, larceny, trespassing and pickpocketing..
He crossed the border illegally in 2012, according to authorities.
ICE previously lodged a detainer against Jalloh in 2020. He was issued a final order of removal by a judge, who said he could be deported to any country besides Sierra Leone.
‘This case illustrated the importance of third country removals to get criminal illegal aliens out of the US,’ the DHS wrote.