Category: Immigration
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Virginia GOP’s Strategic Blunder: Overlooking Legal Immigrants
by Srilekha Reddy Palle Despite nearly two million foreign-born residents now calling Virginia home — representing more than one in five voters in Northern Virginia alone — the party completely squandered the chance to engage these communities under the state’s new outreach and voter engagement provisions. This is not a minor oversight. It’s a monumental…
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Harrisonburg Councilman Denounces ICE Actions
by Deb and Joe Fitzgerald In a Harrisonburg City Council discussion Wednesday of ICE activities in the city, council member Nasser Alsaadun, an Iraqi-American immigrant, made a heartfelt personal statement about what it means when Immigration and Customs Enforcement seizes a city resident. “I wanted to thank council members, Mayor Reed and the City manager,…
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Sanctuary Politics
Here’s the kicker: “@EROWashington previously lodged two immigration detainers against Melendez-Gonzalez with Fairfax County. Fairfax County officials REFUSED to honor the detainers, releasing Melendez-Gonzalez back into the community.“
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This Is What America Has Come To Under ICE
by Dick Hall-Sizemore For all those Bacon Rebellion commenters who are so anxious to praise and support ICE, you would be well served to read George Will’s latest column. Will is not a progressive; not a radical left-winger; not even a Democrat. He is a bona fide conservative. As evidence of his credentials, he was…
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More than 5,600 Illegal Alien Criminals Arrested in Virginia Since February
Spanberger would revoke Gov. Youngkin’s executive order that protects Virginia. by Victoria Manning More than 5,600 illegal aliens have been arrested in Virginia since Feb. 2025 thanks to federal and state law enforcement working together through the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force. Gov. Youngkin’s office told Restoration News those arrested included violent criminals including MS-13,…
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Fairfax School Leaders Won’t Say Why They Are Destroying Students’ Identification Documents
by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IW Features. Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid seems to be playing dumb about her district’s directive to destroy student identification records. As I previously reported in IW Features, Fairfax County Public Schools issued new guidance to school registrars this summer, telling them to purge copies and digital uploads…
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Fairfax County Public Schools Tells Registrars to Destroy Student Identification Documents
by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures Fairfax County Public Schools is issuing new guidance to public school registrars, telling them to purge copies and digital uploads of students’ personal documents from school records. Schools have long required these legal documents to prove a student’s identity, residence, and relationship to his or her parents and caregivers.…
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Richmond Justice: From Gun-Safety Class to Murder
An illegal alien plea bargains firearms and narcotics offenses down to therapy and a gun safety class — and goes on to commit murder. by Victoria Manning New documents obtained by Restoration News show four violent illegal alien criminals were charged with murder over just two years in Richmond, Virginia, while multiple others were charged…
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Another Violent Immigrant Caught
by Dick Hall-Sizemore On August 8, ICE officers arrested and detained another violent immigrant in the Richmond area. Arman Momand, a 19-year old rising senior at Henrico’s J.R. Tucker High School, had been charged by Henrico police with reckless driving, evading police, and driving without a license following a driving incident last December. However, the…
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Make America Safe for Anti-ICE Doxxers!
by James A. Bacon Federal immigration agents would be forbidden from wearing masks when making arrests under a bill that Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine plan to introduce to Congress, reports Axios Richmond. The proposal represents in part a response to incidents in Chesterfield County and Charlottesville courthouses where plainclothes Immigration and Customs…
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Fairfax County Released 200 Illegal Alien Criminals Since February
Child sex predators, rapists, repeat offenders, and fugitives from justice are among those released to the streets despite ICE detainers. by Victoria Manning A FOIA request by Restoration News reveals that the sanctuary jurisdiction Fairfax County has released 205 illegal alien criminals onto the streets since February 2025. Only 7 arrested criminals were turned over to Immigration…
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Are ICE’s Courthouse Crackdowns Justified?
by James A. Bacon Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have discovered that an easy way to crack down on illegal-alien criminals is to pick them up in local courthouses where they are processed for alleged crimes and misdemeanors. It strikes me that ICE is entirely within its rights, but the strategy does have unintended…
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Bacon Bits: All Is Not Well
License-plate readers discriminate. Some readers might think that automated license-plate readers are a good thing: They help law-enforcement authorities capture lawbreakers. But if your priority is protecting illegal immigrants, that’s a big negative. License-plate readers, you see, were used to track down four people who escaped from an ICE detention center in Farmville. According to…
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Which Laws Do We Want to Enforce?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore In a recent post on Bacon’s Rebellion, I cited what I felt was the disproportionate treatment of some undocumented immigrants by the criminal justice system. There was a lot of push back. Most of the negative commentary centered around the fact that the immigrants were in the United States in violation of federal…