Madness: Illegal Alien Dodges Deportation FIVE Times

Few events in recent memory highlight the absurdity of sanctuary policies more than the case of Yohandri Roger Mosquera-Rosas, a 30-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien living in Fairfax County, Virginia, who ping-ponged in and out of jail after multiple arrests.

Fairfax County is a thriving D.C.-Metro suburb of 1.1 million residents, with a strict policy of not honoring ICE detainers which, by definition, makes it a sanctuary jurisdiction — one in which an astounding chronology of lawlessness unfolded.

According to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release:

• October 11, 2022: Mosquera-Rosas illegally crossed into the U.S. after which he was paroled into the United States, along with countless other illegal aliens under the Biden-Harris administration.
• January 1, 2023: Mosquera-Rosas was arrested by Fairfax County Police (FCP) and charged with malicious wounding, reckless handling of a firearm, leaving a firearm loaded, endangering a child less than 14 years of age, and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. ICE issued a detainer but the county refused to honor it. Mosquera was later released.
• June 22, 2023: Mosquera-Rosa was arrested by FCP and again charged with using a firearm in commission of a felony. ICE issued another detainer, but Mosquera had already been released.
• February 18 and May 2, 2024: Mosquera-Rosa was arrested by FCP and charged with driving while intoxicated and hit-and-run with property damage. After each arrest, ICE lodged immigration detainers, both were refused and Mosquera-Rosas was let go.
• September 12, 2024: ICE finally arrested Mosquera-Rose and, for the moment at least, he remains in custody.

Shortly after Mosquera-Rosas’ final arrest, ICE released a statement revealing its frustration with sanctuary policies, warning that they “end up shielding dangerous criminals who often victimize immigrant communities.” Yet in the same statement, ICE failed to repudiate a major reason sanctuary policies exist by simply repeating the flawed rationale that mass immigration politicians use to justify them: “ICE recognizes that some jurisdictions are concerned that cooperating with federal immigration officials will erode trust with immigrant communities and make it harder for local law enforcement to serve those populations.”

ICE officials likely know better — although they may be intimidated from saying so, fearing the wrath of their open-borders boss, Department of Homeland Secretary Alexandro Mayorkas. After all, the assertion that allowing ICE to remove dangerous criminals has a chilling effect on crime reporting, or diminishes trust between citizens and local police, is hooey with no empirical basis. Virtually all police have the discretion to ignore the immigration status of a witnesses to a crime, and virtually all do. There is simply no documented evidence indicating that an illegal alien was ever deported as a result of reporting a crime or volunteering information to the police. The greater bond of trust between the immigrant community and police occurs when dangerous criminal aliens are not allowed to roam freely in immigrant communities as a result of sanctuary policies.

Sanctuary policies are dangerous, counterproductive to reducing illegal immigration, and defy federal law. Yet, 562 sanctuary jurisdictions across the country embrace them just like Fairfax County, in which — as incomprehensible as it may seem — Mosquera-Rosas was arrested and released four times; five if his release initially at the border is included.

There is no rational reason that could ever justify sanctuary policies. Rather, they exist to accommodate political and business interests that benefit from unceasing illegal immigration. Therein lay the rub because as Shakespeare said, “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”