‘Fairfax, a magnet for VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIENS!’: Tiffany TARGETS sanctuary policies at House hearing

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]Isn't this a really big problem that is being created that does not just affect places like Dane County, Wisconsin and Fairfax County, Virginia?

[00:00:10]>> I do think sanctuary policies also create a magnet for groups. If you look at say Fairfax County, it's estimated roughly 200,000 illegal aliens are in Fairfax. If you look right next door to Loudoun, it's about 25,000. Why? MS-13 and TD and other and transnational gangs understand that they are in a sanctuary, they can operate with impunity. They then reside in Fairfax and often times are committing their crimes all over.

[00:00:35]>> Fairfax and Dane County, Wisconsin, they're actually magnets for violent illegal aliens.

[00:00:41]>> Right. They know they can go there and if they're picked up on a charge, they know they have local government >> Uh Mr. Tiffany.

[00:00:50]>> Thank you very much uh Mr. Chairman. Uh I want to thank Ms. Mentor for the verse that she read at the end of her testimony. It was moving and thank you so much for that. Thank you so much for sharing the memories of your daughter um with us with those pictures and I'm just sorry that there's not going to be more pictures for us to be able to see in the future. Uh wish you the very best.

[00:01:11]Um in Wisconsin, uh Mr. Mears, I've got a question for you at the uh end of a couple sentences here.

[00:01:19]In Wisconsin, we had a terrible situation. It sounds like it's like Fairfax and Dane County, which is Madison, Wisconsin.

[00:01:26]Uh they have the same thing. They have sanctuary policies and an illegal Venezuelan uh immigrant, known gang member, was let free.

[00:01:38]>> [laughter] >> Excuse me. He then later arrested uh he was later arrested over 100 miles away in the town of Prairie du Chien in Wisconsin and he was charged with domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and strangulation.

[00:01:56]Doesn't this make it very clear that these sanctuary policies they affect all of us, whether it's in our state, our region, whatever. And I think about all the people that come from our great state of Wisconsin that visit Washington, D.C. Seems to me that Fairfax County, not very far away that this can be a problem for people who live all over the country, just like this example where Madison Dane County, Wisconsin refused to remove someone who went on to strangle someone.

[00:02:32]Isn't this a really big problem that is being created that does not just affect places like Dane County, Wisconsin and Fairfax County, Virginia?

[00:02:42]>> It is a massive problem, Congressman, and if you meet with victims, as I have through the years, the one thing a victim will tell you they want they they do not want to become is just a number.

[00:02:53]Just a statistic. It has been cited some of Fairfax public safety numbers, but at the end of the day, every victim every victim their life is changed from the date of the offense when they have lost their loved one. It absolutely affects, and what's amazing about this is that in counties where you actually have, say, Bedford County in Virginia with Sheriff Miller, great sheriff, and and Wes Nance, a great Commonwealth's Attorney, they don't get these headlines.

[00:03:19]They don't get these headlines because they actually cooperate with federal federal immigration authorities. But what happens in Fairfax is they're making a conscious decision, and you're seeing it over and over again, and it's not just a failure to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, it is a conscious decision by Steve Descano to under prosecute crimes over and over again. People have made uh it's been pointed out of what happened when a a a judge told ICE that they had to release them because they were not allowed to deport them this year earlier on. But the reality is this was so preventable because multiple times, multiple times he was arrested, multiple times this prosecutor had the policy of under prosecuting and dropping charge and it's not just this case, it's multiple cases. He has made a conscious decision, I'm a little incredulous to see this side of the say, well, the promises I made to the campaign when I was campaigning voters, they don't really count. I'm a firm believer let your yes be yes, your no be no and it's not what you say, it's what you do. He may claim this has no impact on his charging decisions, but if you look at time and time again and I can go through the cases and so is so can Mr. Kennedy, there is a volume of cases where he has made a conscious decision to under prosecute and essentially treat illegal immigrants with greater deference than he would an American citizen who is charged with a crime.

[00:04:39]>> Is there a correlation with the crime statistics being down? I was looking at some yesterday that came out of the Judiciary Committee where I think it was um 67 of the largest municipalities here in America, um the decrease in a year was like 236 fewer murders in the United States. So, think about it, compared to the previous year. Um uh there's a reduction there's 236 more people that are alive in America as a result of this. Is there a correlation with this um securing our border and those places that choose to be tough on crime, do you think there's a correlation?

[00:05:16]>> No question because I do think sanctuary policies also create a magnet for groups. If you look at say Fairfax County, it's estimated roughly 200,000 illegal aliens are in Fairfax. If you look right next door to Loudoun, it's about 25,000. Why? MS-13 and TD and other and transnational gangs understand that they are in a sanctuary that they can operate with impunity. They then reside in Fairfax and often times are committing their crimes all over.

[00:05:42]>> So, Fairfax and Dane County, Wisconsin, they're actually magnets for violent illegal aliens.

[00:05:48]>> Right. They know they can go there and if they're picked up on a charge, they know they have the local government. In this case, the Fairfax Board of Supervisors has passed the trust policy, which is an explicit prohibition on cooperation, and they know this. They're not dumb. They know which localities have opened the doors to them and which localities cooperate with federal authorities.

[00:06:07]>> Gentleman's time expired.

[00:06:08]>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[00:06:09]>> Uh, Mr. Nadler.

[00:06:11]>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Menner, I'm so sorry.

[00:06:15]This is clearly a preventable crime despite what has been said. Um, as the father of two daughters, I can't imagine what you're going through, what you will go through, and uh, candidly, I would not be acting as civilly with some of the people you're seated with had I uh, suffered what you've had to endure.

[00:06:31]So, thank you for being here. Mr. Descano, you said that, quote, "We prosecute Virginia cases." Is that correct?

[00:06:38]>> That is correct, yes.

[00:06:39]>> And uh, you you painted a picture of being rigorous in your efforts to prosecute bad people, correct?

[00:06:46]>> Yes, when we prosecute, of course, we um, take a look at every case. We are constrained by the evidence, we're constrained by the law, and I will tell you, Congressman, you know, I think what is happening here with the number of cases that we're talking about are >> I want to talk to you about one of those cases. I want to talk to you about one of those cases, sir.

[00:07:04]Mr. Hiram Rodriguez, you remember that case?

[00:07:06]>> I do.

[00:07:08]>> Leading up to the crime that I want to talk about, the defendant's criminal history included multiple charges and arrests for indecent liberties, exposing himself to a child, exposing himself to a child less than 15 years of age, disorderly conduct, illegally entering a property to damage, burglary. He was even sentenced, albeit, I would say, too lightly, uh, while he was on probation, while he was under court supervision, in June 15th, 2023, at 4:00 in the morning, Fairfax County PD responded to a burglary in process. A mother and her 4-year-old daughter were asleep in the same room, but in separate beds. The mother was awakened when her 4-year-old daughter was screaming in the next room.

[00:07:52]She went to investigate. The attacker dropped the 4-year-old and fled the scene. It was clear that the 4-year-old had been abducted from her bed.

[00:08:01]Her buttocks had been grabbed. Her torso had been bruised. The victim displayed immediate bruising.

[00:08:09]The mother did not see the attacker's face, but the 4-year-old said he was a quote big man. Law enforcement identified Mr. Rodriguez by two ways.

[00:08:18]Forensics recovered a finger and palm print from the window that he jarred open in this case and matched footprints outside the house where he was standing with a mud print inside the house.

[00:08:29]Eyewitness testimony later identified Rodriguez as having been loitering for days outside this apartment building. He had been seen using drugs in the neighborhood, and he had been pacing around this particular unit in the days leading up to the crime.

[00:08:43]Police secured two warrants. One statutory burglary specifically alleging that Rodriguez entered an occupied dwelling seizing a 4-year-old with the intent to commit murder, rape, robbery, or arson. Maximum penalty is 20 years.

[00:08:59]Abduction of a 4-year-old with the intent to defile such person was the second charge with a maximum penalty of life.

[00:09:06]Once it was handed over to your office, inexplicably so, you immediately reduced the burglary offense to a misdemeanor, which capped the sentence at 12 months.

[00:09:17]You then reduced the abduction charge to an offense that was a lower degree and capped the sentence at 10 years.

[00:09:25]When you entered into a plea agreement, you tried to bind the court.

[00:09:32]Bind the court so they could not sentence this person to any term over 2 years. Is that not correct?

[00:09:38]>> Sir, I'm so glad you brought this case up because >> not correct?

[00:09:41]>> I would like to explain, sir.

[00:09:42]>> It is correct and the court rejected it.

[00:09:46]>> Sir, I know the case file.

[00:09:47]>> This was a This was a I'm talking. It was a judge that was appointed by Senator Warner. This is not a right-wing judge. This is a liberal judge and you know why he rejected it?

[00:09:58]>> Sir, >> He saw what you should have seen.

[00:10:00]>> about the case.

[00:10:01]>> overwhelming evidence that >> Sir, can we talk about the evidence?

[00:10:05]>> This person was a >> I know it and you don't.

[00:10:07]>> Quit talking.

[00:10:07]>> And I would love to tell you about it.

[00:10:10]>> He yanked a 4-year-old girl out of her bed with the intent to harm her and you wanted to give her a cap of two years.

[00:10:19]>> Sir, this is a great example >> agreement was rejected, what did you do?

[00:10:25]>> Sir, this is a great example >> do?

[00:10:27]>> This is a great example of a case >> I prosecuted I prosecuted cases.

[00:10:31]And when you're evading like that, you know what that's a sign of? Guilt. What did you do?

[00:10:37]>> Sir, >> You dismissed the case.

[00:10:40]>> Sir, can I please talk to you about >> when you dismiss be quiet. When you dismiss a case, what happens to that defendant?

[00:10:49]>> He walks free.

[00:10:50]>> Walks free.

[00:10:52]A disgusting, perverted individual preying on children that you dismissed the case.

[00:11:00]>> As the father of two young girls, one of them's five.

[00:11:04]That is as shameful as anything I have >> I don't talk to me.

[00:11:07]>> Quit defending the indefensible. You clearly don't.

[00:11:11]>> Absolutely not.

[00:11:12]>> the case and it's shameful.

[00:11:13]>> Sir, >> You're a coward. You are a coward.

[00:11:15]>> you to you won't even let me talk to you about the case.

[00:11:17]>> It's indefensible, sir. I yield back.