House panel summons Fairfax sheriff and prosecutor over sanctuary policies

House Republicans are recruiting two top Fairfax County law enforcement officials, including a Soros-backed prosecutor, after violent crimes involving released illegal immigrants intensified federal scrutiny of the county’s sanctuary-style policies.

Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid and Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steven Descano are invited to voluntarily testify at an upcoming Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement Subcommittee hearing titled “Fairfax County Virginia – The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary City Policies.”

Both are elected Democrats, and Descano’s campaigns have received more than $700,000 in funds from organizations backed by far-left Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a pro-police group.

Descano and Kincaid received nearly identical letters signed by committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock, R-Calif., which were also obtained by Fox News Digital.

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Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid is seen. (Eva Russo/Getty Images)

“The hearing will examine how state and local policies that prohibit cooperation with federal immigration authorities harm public safety,” Jordan and McClintock wrote.

“Your testimony will help the committee and subcommittee develop legislative reforms to address sanctuary jurisdictions.”

Fairfax officials have until Monday to RSVP for the April 15 hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Descano has a history of dropping charges against illegal immigrants who often have criminal histories, including Salvadoran national Marvin Morales-Ortez, who was accused of killing a Virginia man ambushed on a hiking trail.

Jordan and McClintock have previously written to Descano about their concerns in the case, saying his policy “prioritizes illegal aliens over U.S. citizens and threatens public safety.”

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Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano speaks at an event in Fairfax County, Virginia. (Sarah Voisin/Getty Images)

They said Kincaid released Morales-Ortez on Dec. 16 despite his potential ties to MS-13 after Descano’s office declined to pursue charges in a Sept. 12 intentional injury case.

“Despite an ICE detainer on Morales-Ortez, your office refused to briefly detain him until ICE could arrest him and did not even notify ICE of his impending release,” the lawmakers wrote to Kincaid at the time.

“A day later, Morales-Ortez allegedly murdered a man in Reston, Virginia, and has now been charged with second-degree murder. Even now, however, you continue to defend your failed sanctuary policies and refuse to take responsibility for their consequences,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, first reported by Washington’s ABC affiliate.

The outlet further reported that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, led by Chairman Jeffrey McKay, D-Franconia, also prohibits the Fairfax County Police Department from cooperating with ICE.

Nick Minock, a reporter for the outlet, later obtained a transcript of Morales-Ortez’s preliminary hearing in which Descano’s office posited that Morales-Ortez was present when José Guillen Mejia was murdered and had ambushed the man on the trail.

Shortly after his release, Morales-Ortez allegedly went to a home on Fan Shell Court in Reston, Virginia – near John F. Dulles International Airport – and shot a man inside.

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This chain of events angered the Trump administration, with Tricia McLaughlin, then deputy secretary of DHS, stating that “Fairfax County politicians [who] The policy pushers who freed this illegal alien from prison have “blood on their hands.”

Most recently, the family of Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother stabbed to death at a Fairfax bus stop by an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record, called for Descano’s ouster.

Abdul Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean national, was charged with second-degree murder and Descano released him despite being warned about his 30 prior arrests. Jalloh had received a deportation order during the Biden administration, but was never deported.

A Mount Vernon police official sent an email to Descano’s office regarding Jalloh’s new release, according to Fox & Friends.

Given the strong Democratic lean of Fairfax, Virginia’s largest county by population and which state officials are trying to include in at least five newly designated congressional districts, Descano and Kincaid have been strongly supported by voters in every election.

Republicans have not pitted an opponent against either candidate in 2023, while Descano’s only challenge came from fellow Democrat Ed Nuttall, whose candidacy in the primary was reportedly supported by victims’ rights advocates.

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Nuttall also launched a write-in challenge in that year’s general election, but lost. Kincaid was first elected in 2013.

Fairfax Democrats removed Nuttall from their party amid this write-in offer after he attended a Brain Foundation fundraiser with the only Republican member of the Fairfax board, Pat Herrity of Springfield, and a Republican candidate for the Sully board named Keith Elliott, according to FairfaxNow.

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Herrity is the son of the late Chairman Jack Herrity, a Republican known as “Mr. Fairfax” in the 1980s, when the county was much more conservative.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Descano and Kincaid’s offices for comment.