A person who was in the country illegally was caught by Virginia State Police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office let him go on a plea deal.
ICE has arrested 34-year-old Guatemalan Wilmer Osmany Ramos-Giron on multiple felony charges in January. These include felony kidnap, assault on a family member, and felony strangulation causing injury to a Virginia woman.
It was only two months that Ramos-Giron was locked up as an adult in Fairfax County.
Steve Descano, a Democrat who runs the office of the county attorney, worked out a deal that reduced Ramos-Giron’s charges to crimes. ABC 7 says that if Ramos-Giron had been found guilty, she could have spent up to 16 years in prison on the criminal charges.
The victim told the news source that the county attorney’s office was wrong when they said the plea deal was what the victim wanted. Ramos-Giron was sent back to Mexico twice more, but he got back into the U.S. even though he was found guilty in a federal gun case. According to ICE, it’s not clear when he came back to the country.
His office, that of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, praised the arrest on April 24.
Lawyer Peter Finocchio, who works for Youngkin, told Fox News Digital in a statement, “It’s disappointing that the Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney’s Office has been more concerned about protecting dangerous illegal immigrants than making sure the safety of Virginians.”
“Fortunately, Wilmer Osmany Ramos-Giron will no longer pose a threat to Virginia families, thanks to brave federal and state law enforcement heroes.”
The Virginia Public Access Project says that the Justice and Public Safety PAC gave over $627,000 to Descano’s campaign from 2019 to 2023. According to an earlier report from Fox News Digital, liberal billionaire George Soros gave most of the super PAC’s money.
ABC 7 reported that Steve Descano, the Democrat who is the district attorney for Fairfax County, has made it clear that he does not want to enforce federal immigration rules and has a history of not following through with many ICE detainers.
Russell Hott, who runs the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Washington, D.C., field office, said, “Wilmer Ramos-Giron is a major threat to the people of Virginia.”
“He clearly doesn’t care about our immigration laws or, more importantly, the safety and well-being of our community.” He is a dangerous criminal who has done bad things before and will do them again. ICE Washington, D.C., cannot stand him. We are still dedicated to putting public safety first, no matter what stands in our way. The men and women of ICE Washington, D.C., will continue to arrest and remove criminal alien risks from neighborhoods in Virginia and Washington, D.C., and make sure their victims get the justice they deserve.
When asked for a comment, Descano’s office did not answer.
As ICE continues to go after illegal immigrants it sees as a threat to public safety, rules at the state and local levels across the country are also being closely looked at. Last month, California said it would send an illegal immigrant to ICE custody because the state jail system was about to let out a man who was 3½ years into a 10-year sentence for killing two teens while driving drunk and was going to be released.