For a year, Fairfax conservatives told you exactly what Steve Descano’s office had become. This week, Congress caught up.
On Thursday, May 14, Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano sat at the witness table of the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement and said this, on the record:
“My office does not provide sanctuary or safe harbor to undocumented immigrants.”
Three rows behind him sat Cheryl Minter — the mother of Stephanie Minter, the 41-year-old single mother from Fredericksburg who was stabbed to death at the Hybla Valley bus stop in February.
Stephanie’s killer? Abdul Jalloh. A Sierra Leone national in this country illegally. Arrested more than thirty times in Fairfax County. Five prior felony malicious wounding charges since 2023 alone. Charges dismissed by Descano’s office, over and over and over.
The hearing was titled “Fairfax County, Virginia: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies.” That title wasn’t chosen for theater. It was chosen because Fairfax has a body count.
Descano didn’t get to that office by accident. His 2019 Democrat primary campaign took $627,653 from the Soros-funded Justice and Public Safety PAC — roughly 70% of his entire primary budget that year, per Virginia Public Access Project campaign finance records and as documented by the American Enterprise Institute. One out-of-state PAC, one mega-donor, one $627,000 check — and a Fairfax prosecutor who has spent every year since governing like he answers to them instead of us.
The Fairfax County Police Department warned his office, in writing — in at least three separate emails — that Jalloh’s violent behavior was escalating. Descano’s office dismissed charge after charge anyway.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it out loud:
This tragedy was completely preventable.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 14, 2026
Stephanie Minter would still be here if not for the insane policies of Fairfax sanctuary politicians that RELEASED Abdul Jalloh repeatedly from jail back onto American streets to maim and murder.
His prior criminal history included rape,…
Sheriff Stacey Kincaid sat next to Descano at the witness table. She told Congress her jail will not honor ICE administrative detainers — she requires a judicial warrant before she will hold any inmate past their release date. Her defense:
“My agency is not staffed for, budgeted for or mandated to reform the duties of the federal government.”
Translation: federal immigration enforcement is somebody else’s problem. Until it isn’t.
Former Attorney General Jason Miyares testified at the hearing too. He called Stephanie’s death “the most recent and visible name in a documented and ongoing pattern of preventable crimes — a pattern with a single common cause: the sanctuary policies of Fairfax County.”
He sat at the same witness table as Descano. He said it to Descano’s face.
Cheryl Minter testified next. She did not need a prepared statement. Her message to Congress was that the system failed her daughter — and that the prosecutor who let Abdul Jalloh walk free still has a job, still has a paycheck, and still has the power to do it again tomorrow.
A week before the hearing, the U.S. Department of Justice publicly announced an investigation into Descano’s plea-bargaining and charging practices. The question: did his office give preferential treatment to illegal-alien defendants over American citizens?
Days before the hearing, Descano quietly deleted from his campaign website the policy statement promising to “make charging and plea decisions that limit or avoid immigration consequences.”
He went in front of Congress one week later and told Chairman Jim Jordan that voters who couldn’t tell the difference between a campaign promise and “official policy” were being “obtuse.”
His own supporters gasped. Watch it for yourself:
Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano is on the ballot in 2027. So is Sheriff Stacey Kincaid.
You don’t have to wait for the DOJ to decide. You don’t have to wait for the next stabbing.
You vote. And before then — you make sure the people doing the voter contact have the resources to reach every Fairfax neighbor who still doesn’t know what thirty dismissed charges look like in real life.
Volunteer with the Fairfax GOP — this is grassroots accountability, the kind that doesn’t wait on a federal probe to act. No one can do everything. Everyone can do something.
And with Tuesday, November 3, 2026 — Fairfax’s federal midterm — less than six months away, donate to the Fairfax County Republican Committee today. The Democrats lost the map fight at the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, but Beyer, Subramanyam, and Walkinshaw are still in office under the current lines until Fairfax voters say otherwise. Money raised in May is voter contact in October. Every dollar to the Fairfax GOP buys reach — mailers, ads, doors knocked — that out-of-state Soros money cannot match unless we let it. Match your donation with a neighbor’s, and forward this to the conservative in your life who keeps asking what they can actually do.
Further reading: “Fairfax County officials, congressional Republicans spar over ICE policies” — FFXnow, May 15, 2026.