The County Board of Arlington, Virginia, voted this week to further restrict police cooperation with ICE in a move the state’s attorney general said only benefits «illegal immigrants that have committed some of the most heinous acts, whether it’s human trafficking or even acts of terrorism.» 

Sections of the Arlington County Trust Policy were removed to eliminate «instances in which ACPD can initiate contact with ICE regarding immigration enforcement,» the county said on its website. 

«Banning local police from alerting ICE, from terrorists, from MS-13 gang members, from human traffickers, that is not compassion. That’s actually negligence,» Arlington Attorney General Jason Miyares told Fox News after the vote. 

«I want to be clear, this present policy does absolutely nothing to make Arlington safe. It makes it less safe. The only people that benefit from this are illegal immigrants that have committed some of the most heinous acts, whether it’s human trafficking or even acts of terrorism. It does not protect the community, does not protect Arlington, does not protect Virginians.» 

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A copy of the old Trust Policy, which the county said was first adopted in July 2022 to ensure residents can interact with the local government without fear of action by federal immigration authorities, outlined the instances in which the Arlington County Police Department could reach out to ICE. 

It said ACPD could contact federal immigration authorities if someone was an «undocumented immigrant» who «has been identified as a gang member and is wanted or arrested for a violent felony or a criminal street gang offense,» or if they were «arrested for a terrorism or human trafficking offense,» according to a copy of the policy obtained by WJLA. 

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However, the updated policy no longer includes that language. 

«To be clear, breaking the law is still breaking the law. This decision does not change that, and if a crime is committed, law enforcement will respond,» Takis Karantonis, the chair of the Arlington County Board, said in a statement.  

«The decision to remove Section 7 and related language comes in the wake of the federal administration’s ongoing erosion of the constitutional right to due process, which every person has regardless of their status,» he added. «The rhetoric and actions of this administration have led to tremendous stress and fear in our community, and we want to make sure all residents feel safe in engaging with local government, particularly with local law enforcement.» 

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin called the vote by the Arlington County Board a «dereliction of duty and a betrayal of the oath they swore to protect their constituents.» (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has come out against the vote, writing on X, «The Arlington County Board’s latest action to prohibit Arlington Police from any cooperation with ICE, even regarding violent MS-13 gang members who are illegally here, is dereliction of duty and a betrayal of the oath they swore to protect their constituents. 

«At what point did protecting violent illegal immigrants become more important than protecting your constituents?» he added. «The Virginia Homeland Security Task Force has been working in Arlington County, catching and arresting violent criminals, including MS-13 gang members. That will continue — unabated — in Arlington and around the Commonwealth.» 

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security advisor said, «The Democrat Party is fully radicalized against Americans.» 

When asked by Fox News Digital Friday for a reaction to the vote, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, «These sanctuary politicians are playing Russian roulette with American lives. 

ICE, assisted by the FBI, said it «apprehended seven illegally present aliens during a routine enforcement operation in Annandale,» Va., in February, which is located near Arlington County. (ICE)

«While Arlington Country sanctuary politicians work to thwart ICE, DHS will continue arresting criminal illegal aliens and getting them out of our country. Radical sanctuary politicians need to put the safety of the American people first, not criminal illegal aliens. No American wants criminal illegal aliens loose on America’s streets and neither should our leaders who represent them,» she added.

«We find it extremely troubling that Arlington County leaders made the decision to prioritize politics ahead of public safety,» ICE acting Director Todd M. Lyons said in a statement to Fox News. «Prohibiting local law enforcement from alerting federal authorities to the presence of an egregious hazard to their community only emboldens criminal offenders while putting people at risk.»

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The agency has made 17 arrests in Arlington County so far this fiscal year, and three of those arrested were confirmed MS-13 gang members. 

Fox News’ Casey Clark contributed to this report.

Incidentes en La Paz entre militantes de Evo Morales y la Policía

Evo Morales busca presentarse como candidato a presidente en Bolivia, aunque el Tribunal Constitucional de ese país lo inhabilitó. Foto EFE

La Policía Boliviana reprimió en las afueras del Tribunal Electoral a militantes de Evo Morales que buscan que se acepte su candidatura, por fuera de la constitución. Foto Reuters/Claudia Morales.

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JERUSALEM—The scandal-plagued prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been compelled to step down, pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, the court announced Friday. Khan has categorically denied the allegations against him. 

Fox News Digital sent detailed press queries to the ICC and embattled prosecutor Karim Khan on Thursday, asking if the world court planned to oust him and whether he would resign.

The Associated Press reported the court said in a statement that Khan on Friday ″communicated his decision to take leave until the end″ of an external investigation that will be carried by the Office of Internal Oversight Services, the U.N. internal watchdog.  

That same report said that women’s rights groups welcomed the move, who had called for him to step down after the allegations emerged last year, but Khan initially resisted leaving.

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Last year, an Associated Press investigation found that two court employees in whom the alleged victim confided came forward with the accusation in May. That was a few weeks before Khan sought arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, his former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders on war crimes charges.

Israel has been waging an existential war against the U.S.-designated terrorist movement, Hamas, since it invaded the Jewish state on October 7, 2023 and slaughtered more than 1,200 people, including American citizens.

Eugene Kontorovich, a legal expert and senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News Digital, «Removing Khan is not enough. The entire tribunal, including his prosecutorial team and judges, enabled his blood libel. The scandal points to the inherent defects of the institution – a total lack of accountability.»

Gaza City, Gaza on Feb. 02, 2025.  (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Associated Press reported that two co-workers in whom the woman confided at the ICC’s headquarters at The Hague reported Khan’s alleged misconduct in May to the court’s independent watchdog, which says it interviewed the woman and ended its inquiry after five days when she opted against filing a formal complaint. Khan himself wasn’t questioned at the time.

While the court’s watchdog could not determine wrongdoing, it nonetheless urged Khan in a memo to minimize contact with the woman to protect the rights of all involved and safeguard the court’s integrity.

Khan has been facing increasing pressure on multiple fronts. U.S. President Donald Trump filed sanctions against Khan in February in relation to his Israel warrants. The sanctions are hampering work on a broad array of investigations at the court.

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Israeli PM and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the Kirya HQ during the Strike in Iran (Avi Ohayon/ GPO)

The Wall Street Journal reported Khan’s decision to prosecute Netanyahu and the country’s former Defense Minister raised «questions about whether Khan was aiming to protect himself from the sexual-assault allegations. The day before announcing the warrant application, Khan abruptly canceled a trip to Israel and Gaza that he had previously said was important to make his decision.» 

The Wall Street Journal reported the ICC employee’s graphic account of Khan allegedly raping the woman and sexually molesting her.

Lawyers for Khan from the firm, Carter-Ruck Solicitors, told Fox News Digital on Friday that, «Our client does wish to make clear, however, that it is categorically untrue that he has engaged in sexual misconduct of any kind.»

Khan’s lawyers continued, «Our client is cooperating fully and transparently with the investigation by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) in relation to allegations that have been raised against him.»

With respect to information that Khan exploited the ICC to save his own skin by charging Israeli leaders, Carter-Ruck Solicitors said «The decision to announce that arrest warrants for individuals including Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Gallant and leaders of Hamas, our client also wishes to make clear that the fact that ICC Judges approved the applications for those warrants underscores that the evidence on which they were based met the rigorous legal threshold required under the Rome Statute. Suggestions that the Prosecutor’s applications were linked to, or precipitated by, unrelated allegations of misconduct are totally false.»

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Hamas fighters stand in formation as Palestinians gather on a street to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Feb. 8, 2025 (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Kontorovich said about the ICC case against Israeli leaders: «This fundamentally undermines the integrity of the case, and in a normal judicial system, would lead not just to these charges being thrown out, but cast doubt on all his prior cases.»

He continued that «Given that the ICC has only managed to secure final convictions against six people for atrocity crimes in its quarter-century of existence, a massive scandal of prosecutorial misconduct should be grounds for shutting down the institution, not just removing the prosecutor.»

When asked if the ICC plans to rescind the arrest warrants against the Israeli leaders, Fadi El-Abdallah, the spokesman for the ICC, told Fox News Digital that «As there is a pending request, I can’t offer comment or speculation on its outcome.»

El-Abdallah referred Fox News Digital to Khan’s media team regarding questions related to his alleged sexual misconduct and allegations he damaged the integrity of the world court.

A general view of the International Criminal Court (ICC) building in The Hague, Netherlands on Apr. 30, 2024.  (Selman Aksunger/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel asked the ICC to withdraw the arrest warrants in early May. 

Fox News Digital previously reported the British chief prosecutor, Khan, published an academic essay in 2013 that suggested his own current effort to arrest Netanyahu would be a travesty of justice because the court cannot provide due process to defendants. 

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«Make no mistake: the problem is bigger than Khan. They’re throwing him under the bus to protect the institution and salvage their campaign against Israel. But the rot runs deep. This was never about justice, it was always about a political agenda,» Hillel Neuer, a lawyer and UN Watch Executive Director, told Fox News Digital.

A spokesperson for the United Nations told Fox News Digital that it does not comment on the ICC because it is an independent judicial body.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.