Protect Terrorists and Human Traffickers From Deportation? This County Says ‘Yes’

Arlington County, VA, has been a “sanctuary” county for illegal immigrants for a long time, but until yesterday, they made a few exceptions to their strict “no contact” with ICE policy. 

Terrorists, human traffickers, pedophiles–you know, the kind of people who no sane person wants anywhere near their community under any circumstances–did not receive the same “courtesy” as garden-variety illegal aliens who have brushes with the law. Even the bleeding hearts in the D.C. metro, who, after all, had front-row seats to a jet crashing into the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, conceded that terrorists should be deported. 

No longer, now that Trump is in office. The principle is that only foreigners will do the terrorism that Americans will not, so we must keep the borders open to them. Same with cartel and gang members, of whom America apparently does not have enough. 

🚨New: The Arlington County Board voted to ban local police from turning in illegal immigrant terrorists, gang members, and human traffickers to ICE and federal immigration officials. https://t.co/kAVhegoUhz

— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) May 14, 2025

On Tuesday, the Arlington County Board voted to further restrict the Arlington Police Department’s (APD) cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal immigration officials.

Arlington County Board Members Takis Karantonis, Matt de Ferranti, Maureen Coffey, Susan Cunningham, and JD Spain voted to prohibit APD from initiating contact with federal immigration authorities when:

• An immigrant in the U.S. illegally has been identified as a gang member and is wanted or arrested for a violent felony or a criminal street gang offense
• An immigrant in the U.S. illegally is arrested for a felony offense or is a confirmed gang member
• An immigrant in the U.S. illegally is arrested for a terrorism or human trafficking offense

The Arlington County Board unanimously voted in favor of the changes Tuesday night, claiming without providing data, that immigrant communities are reporting fewer crimes to APD.

Model citizens. Or should I say, model non-citizens? 

There is a rationale for extending the sanctuary policies, making them a blanket immunity from reporting to ICE: the claim is that illegal aliens will feel unsafe reporting crimes unless they are assured that the fuzz won’t report them to ICE. 

“We have seen a significant decrease of trust of our especially of our immigrant community to contact local law enforcement when it was really necessary,” said Karantonis. “That means we have seen a decrease in safety in our own community.”

Before the policy change, Arlington police officers already had strict restrictions when working with ICE.

The county’s Trust Policy had already banned local police from requesting immigration status from people who reported crimes and sharing that type of information with federal immigration officials.

It’s a stupid rationale, since this policy has nothing to do with that outcome. You can easily have a policy that distinguishes between REPORTING a crime and COMMITTING a crime and getting arrested. In fact, you would think that your community would be SAFER if illegal aliens feared committing crimes but not reporting them, right? 

Stay under the radar and the po-po won’t bother you; commit a crime and goodbye Abdul or José. A simple way to separate the wheat from the chaff, right? 

Not in the eyes of Arlington County, apparently, who believe that terrorists and human traffickers should feel comfortable in their community too. 

Next, we will get explanations like, “Did you know that many terrorists are doctors and engineers?” Osama bin Laden was an engineer, you know, and any country can use a good engineer, right? Toss in Mohammed Atta, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and Ramzi Yousef, who were engineers too. And doctors are disproportionately likely to lead terrorist organizations, so do you really want to deport these highly educated men just because they like to blow people up?

For God’s sake, man, is this not the definition of deranged? Liberals hate Donald Trump so much that they would prefer to have violent felons and terrorists living next to them than allow ICE to deport them. 

We live in insane times.