Major blue county in hot seat after violent illegal alien arrested 10 times finally nabbed by ICE
FIRST ON FOX: Fairfax County officials are in the hot seat after the Trump Department of Homeland Security says their sanctuary policies allowed an illegal alien to walk free despite...
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FIRST ON FOX: Fairfax County officials are in the hot seat after the Trump Department of Homeland Security says their sanctuary policies allowed an illegal alien to walk free despite having been arrested ten times and having 19 criminal charges, including for malicious shooting and unlawful wounding. The top Fairfax County official is disputing DHS' characterization of it as a sanctuary county. However, Salvadoran national Jorge Armando Melendez-Gonzalez, 27, was arrested 10 times and has been charged with 19 different crimes in just over seven years, between March 19, 2018, and July 18, 2025, according to DHS. He was finally arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Oct. 24 after DHS said officials at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center declined to honor an immigration detainer it lodged against him on July 18. The July detainer was not the first time Fairfax County ignored an ICE request to hold Melendez-Gonzalez. ICE also lodged a detainer against him in 2023. According to DHS, "Fairfax County officials refused to honor the immigration detainer and released this dangerous criminal alien back into the community." ICE NABS 3-TIME DEPORTED ILLEGAL ALIEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER: 'GOOD RIDDANCE' The agency said that Melendez-Gonzalez entered the U.S. illegally in June 2015. An immigration judge ordered his removal from the country just over a year later in October 2016. Despite this, Melendez-Gonzalez stayed in the country for just over ten years, racking up a long list of offenses in Virginia. He has arrests for three counts of malicious shooting, unlawful wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, assault and battery, assault on a family member, grand larceny, trespassing, possessing a false government identification, public intoxication, disturbing the peace and making a false statement to a law enforcement officer. He has two felony convictions for unlawful wounding stemming from a 2023 shooting, which carry sentenc…