ICE arrested three illegal aliens accused of child sexual assault crimes in Virginia โ all held in the same Staunton jail โ after Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger ended statewide cooperation with the federal agency.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin didn’t mince words.
DHS IS CALLING ON GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER AND HER FELLOW SANCTUARY POLITICIANS TO COMMIT TO NOT RELEASING THESE CRIMINALS FROM JAIL AND TO INSTEAD HAND THEM OVER TO ICE.
Homeland Security@DHSgov ยท Wed, Aug 19, 12:20 PM๐For four years, the Biden Administration released MILLIONS of criminals like this into our communities. @GovernorVA must turn this depraved killer over to us so we can REMOVE him from our nation. Homeland Security (@DHSgov) The Biden administration hand-delivered Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos to the streets of Fairfax County. Cedillos-Campos is a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested by CBP in 2024, after illegally crossing the Biden administrationโs open border near El Paso, TX. After his arrest, he was RELEASED into the interior of our country. @SecMullinDHS are now enforcing the law, arresting illegal aliens who have no right to be in our countryโand have reversed Biden’s deadly catch and release policy. https://nitter.net/DHSgov/status/2090118577307197765#m
Mullin added that under Spanberger, Virginia “has become a magnet for illegal alien crime” and that “these reckless sanctuary policies are putting American lives at risk.”
The three accused predators now face federal immigration charges alongside their state criminal cases.
ICE agents arrested Efren Ramirez Escobedo of Mexico, a got-away previously charged with sexual assault of a victim between 13 and 14 years old as well as sexual assault involving forcible intercourse.
Agents also arrested Bayron Jose De Paz-Lopez of Guatemala, charged with nine counts of child solicitation and attempted sexual assault against a child under 15 years old.
Paz-Lopez crossed the border in 2021 and was released into the U.S. interior by the Biden administration.
The third arrest: Santos Bautista-Molina of Honduras, charged with nine counts of child solicitation and attempted sexual assault against a child under 15.
Bautista-Molina has been living illegally in the U.S. for over 20 years, having first crossed the southern border in September 2005.
ICE has lodged detainers for all three. The question now: will Spanberger’s sanctuary administration honor those detainers โ or release the accused predators back onto Virginia streets?
