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Major blue county in hot seat after violent illegal alien arrested 10 times finally nabbed by ICE

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FIRST ON FOX: Fairfax County officials are in the hot seat after the Trump Department of Homeland Security says their sanctuary policies allowed an illegal alien to walk free despite having been arrested ten times and having 19 criminal charges, including for malicious shooting and unlawful wounding.
The top Fairfax County official is disputing DHS’ characterization of it as a sanctuary county. However, Salvadoran national Jorge Armando Melendez-Gonzalez, 27, was arrested 10 times and has been charged with 19 different crimes in just over seven years, between March 19, 2018, and July 18, 2025, according to DHS.
He was finally arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Oct. 24 after DHS said officials at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center declined to honor an immigration detainer it lodged against him on July 18.
The July detainer was not the first time Fairfax County ignored an ICE request to hold Melendez-Gonzalez. ICE also lodged a detainer against him in 2023. According to DHS, «Fairfax County officials refused to honor the immigration detainer and released this dangerous criminal alien back into the community.»
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Jorge Armando Melendez-Gonzalez, 27, was arrested 10 times and has been charged with 19 different crimes in just over seven years. (Fox News; Fairfax County Police Department)
The agency said that Melendez-Gonzalez entered the U.S. illegally in June 2015. An immigration judge ordered his removal from the country just over a year later in October 2016.
Despite this, Melendez-Gonzalez stayed in the country for just over ten years, racking up a long list of offenses in Virginia. He has arrests for three counts of malicious shooting, unlawful wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, assault and battery, assault on a family member, grand larceny, trespassing, possessing a false government identification, public intoxication, disturbing the peace and making a false statement to a law enforcement officer.
He has two felony convictions for unlawful wounding stemming from a 2023 shooting, which carry sentences of three years in confinement. However, his sentence was suspended down to a year.
According to a statement by the Fairfax County Police Department, detectives arrested Melendez-Gonzalez in August 2023 in connection with a shooting that injured three men outside a business in Falls Church, Virginia.
Fox News Digital reached out to Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, a Democrat, for the reason for Melendez-Gonzalez’s sentence being suspended. A spokesperson for the commonwealth’s attorney’s office declined to comment, referring Fox News Digital to the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, which the spokesperson said, «is responsible for handling ICE detainers.»
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Fairfax County, Virginia, Adult Detention Center allegedly ignored an ICE detainer to hold Melendez-Gonzalez. (Fairfax County)
Allyson Conroy, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, which runs the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, told Fox News Digital that «we did not have a judicial warrant on file from ICE for Jorge Armando Melendez-Gonzalez for either date, Aug. 28, 2023, nor for July 18 of this year.»
Conroy said that «as such, the Sheriff’s Office could not maintain custody over Mr. Melendez-Gonzalez.»
Regarding the suspension of Melendez-Gonalez’s sentence, Conroy said that decision «is in the discretion of the judge or the assigned Commonwealth’s Attorney,» adding, «You should contact those individuals for further information.»
Fox News Digital also reached out to representatives for Fairfax County regarding the Fairfax County Circuit Court’s decision but did not immediately receive a response.
Fairfax County Chairman Jeffrey McKay, also a Democrat, responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by saying, «Fairfax County, through the Board of Supervisors, does not control or make decisions regarding ICE detainers or judicial sentencing; those responsibilities fall to the Sheriff and the courts, respectively.»
He said that Fairfax County «does not consider itself a sanctuary jurisdiction and continues to follow all applicable federal and state laws.»
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Steve Descano , Commonwealths Attorney-elect, Fairfax County, Virginia speaks at an event at the Center for American Progress about Virginias Newly Elected Progressive Prosecutors on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. (Getty Images)
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, however, placed the blame squarely on the county’s sanctuary policies.
«These sanctuary policies make Virginians less safe,» McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.
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«Fairfax County refused to honor two ICE arrest detainers and chose to release this criminal back onto Virginia’s streets. Virginia sanctuary politicians protected this criminal illegal alien and allowed him to terrorize American citizens,» she added.
«Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE law enforcement, this serial violent criminal with 10 previous arrests, is now off of Virginia’s streets,» said McLaughlin.
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Mullin’s confirmation survives key test vote as DHS remains shutdown

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., survived a key test vote on Sunday on his way to becoming the next Homeland Security chief.
Mullin, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to be the next Department of Homeland Security secretary, still has one more vote to go, and likely won’t be confirmed until Monday evening.
Should he survive the final confirmation vote on Monday, he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who Trump fired following explosive hearings on the Hill and after the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti during immigration operations in Minnesota.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin speaks to reporters on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C. (Tom Williams/Getty Images)
Sunday’s test vote, which was largely party-line save for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who was the key vote to move his colleague out of committee earlier in the week, comes after his explosive confirmation hearing earlier in the week.
Mullin was grilled by both Democrats and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who Mullin once called a «snake» and charged that his 2017 assault was «justified.» During the hearing, Mullin didn’t back down from his prior remarks.
«I’m not perfect. I don’t claim to be perfect,» Mullin said. «I make mistakes just like anybody else. But mistakes, if you own them, you can learn from them and you can move ahead. And I’ll make that commitment to you.»
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Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
If successful on Monday, Mullin will take the reins of an agency that is currently shut down. Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have blocked DHS funding five times in their quest to get stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Mullin appeared amicable to making changes at the agency during his hearing.
Congressional Democrats have demanded, among other things, that ICE agents get judicial warrants to enter a home or business in the field rather than administrative warrants. And when asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., whether he would commit to requiring judicial warrants for ICE agents to search homes and businesses, Mullin appeared to give ground to the demand.
«Judicial warrants will be used to go into houses, into place of businesses, unless we’re pursuing someone that enters in that place,» Mullin said. «I have not mixed words with that, and I haven’t changed my opinion about that.»
Meanwhile, what was a shutdown stalemate thawed over earlier this week, when Senate Democrats made a counter offer of DHS demands to the White House after over two weeks of radio silence.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
That spurred back-to-back meetings on the Hill, with Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Katie Britt, R-Ala., along with border czar Tom Homan, sitting down with a cohort of Senate Democrats. A third meeting was slated for Saturday, but was canceled at the last minute.
The shutdown is currently on its way to becoming the longest in history, unless either side can lock in a deal to fund the agency. Mullin’s nomination to lead DHS has so far not swayed Senate Democrats, either, despite their demands the Noem be booted.
Whether both sides meet again over the weekend remains in the air.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., accused Senate Democrats of believing that the shutdown «politically good for them.»
«It’s not politically good for anybody to have literally tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people out of work and important functions of our government not being carried out on a daily basis and functions that are important to our homeland security and our national security,» Thune said.
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La pintura que nadie esperaba: así fue el increíble redescubrimiento de John Constable en el corazón de Texas

Un nuevo capítulo en la historia del arte británico surgió en el este de Texas, donde una obra atribuida a John Constable —referente del paisaje romántico inglés— fue identificada como un hallazgo insospechado con consecuencias para la comprensión de su proceso creativo.
La pintura, un estudio al óleo de gran escala relacionado con The Cornfield (1826), será la pieza principal en la subasta de arte europeo de la casa Heritage en Dallas este 5 de junio, tras un proceso de atribución que desafió lo sabido sobre el autor y reunió a especialistas ante un enigma de procedencia aún sin resolver.
Una característica distintiva de este hallazgo, nunca registrada en versiones previas de la misma escena, es su tamaño: el estudio mide 140 por 122 centímetros, convirtiéndose en el mayor de los bocetos conocidos para The Cornfield.
Según declaró Marianne Berardi, codirectora de arte europeo en Heritage Auction al medio ARTnews, la obra permaneció décadas en la colección de la Jefferson Historical Society and Museum tras ser donada en los años 1960 por la neoyorquina Newhouse Galleries, con el objetivo de fortalecer esa institución cultural. Solamente en 2017, durante una visita de revisión de patrimonio que gestionó Heritage, surgió la sospecha de que se trataba de una obra auténtica, no una copia más entre las 85 registradas, basadas en la laguna de Fen, en Suffolk.

El estudio, restaurado cuidadosamente e investigado a fondo entre 2023 y 2024, fue sometido a múltiples análisis técnicos —desde pruebas de limpieza hasta reflectografía infrarroja y análisis de pigmentos—. Todos los exámenes confirmaron “consistencia total con los materiales y métodos de trabajo de Constable”, lo que contradijo el consenso anterior entre expertos y abrió nuevas incógnitas sobre la evolución de la célebre pintura terminada, la primera del artista admitida en la National Gallery de Londres en 1837.
La autentificación introdujo elementos inéditos en el relato historiográfico de John Constable. De acuerdo con la restauradora Sarah Cove, versiones previas sostenían que Constable pasaba directamente de pequeños bocetos a la obra final. “Desde el redescubrimiento del boceto a tamaño real, sabemos que eso es incorrecto”, afirmó Cove, quien determinó que el autor ejecutó la composición en una única sesión y, en una segunda etapa, la retocó siguiendo una lógica de revisión más madura, evidenciando un proceso analítico visible y documentable sobre la propia superficie.
Las investigaciones de Anne Lyles, historiadora del arte y experta en Constable, apuntaron a una fecha de ejecución en torno a 1820, basada en el imprimado de la tela. Cove sumó que la intervención principal podría situarse poco después de 1825, en un contexto de experimentaciones simultáneas con la composición The Leaping Horse. “El manejo es tan parecido que sugiere que pudo ocurrir a inicios de 1826, en paralelo al trabajo sobre el boceto a tamaño real para The Cornfield”, sostuvo Cove.

La recurrencia con la que resurgen obras desconocidas de Constable se explica por la extraordinaria cantidad que produjo a lo largo de su carrera, motivado en parte por lo que el mismo artista reconocía como una memoria visual limitada. Los estudios, entonces, se convirtieron en sus equivalentes a la fotografía: modelos de referencia concebidos con una libertad y rapidez que anticipaban la estética impresionista décadas antes de su formulación. Estos trabajos permanecieron, en buena medida, fuera del radar del público hasta la subasta del estudio Foster and Co., un año después de la muerte del pintor en 1837.
A partir de 1816 y luego de su matrimonio, Constable amplió el formato de sus composiciones para hacerlas más atractivas comercialmente y para optimizar el tiempo de ejecución. La obra ahora identificada permite reconstruir cómo la exploración en gran escala fue un paso intermedio crucial entre los bocetos reducidos y el lienzo definitivo, integrando casi todos los elementos presentes en la versión final exhibida en la National Gallery, salvo algunos detalles menores.
La procedencia del estudio aún plantea dudas. Existen registros de ventas históricas que mencionan una “estudio de la naturaleza para The Corn Field, para el cuadro de la National Gallery”. Para Sarah Cove, la pintura recién estudiada desplaza como candidata legítima a la versión hasta ahora conservada en los Newfields de Indianápolis. Anne Lyles, en cambio, mantiene reservas sobre la atribución.
La obra será expuesta antes de la subasta en el espacio londinense de Heritage Auctions entre el 27 de marzo y el 2 de abril. Este recorrido internacional marca un nuevo ciclo para una pieza que permaneció más de medio siglo en relativo anonimato y que, ahora, redefine el conocimiento sobre las estrategias creativas de un pilar del romanticismo inglés.
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