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Biden admin marked illegal immigrant, alleged murderer as ‘non-enforcement priority,’ DHS reveals

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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is calling out both the Biden administration and one Northern Virginia county’s «sanctuary policies» after an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal history was released by police and allegedly killed a man in his home a day later.
A man was found shot dead in his Northern Virginia home in Fairfax County on Wednesday. The suspected shooter, 23-year-old Marvin Morales-Ortez — an immigrant from El Salvador residing illegally in the United States — had been in custody Tuesday on malicious wounding and brandishing a firearm charges, but police released him after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office dropped the charges and Morales-Ortez committed a murder the next day.
Morales-Ortez illegally entered the United States in September 2016, along with his mother, near Hidalgo, Texas, according to DHS. Morales-Ortez was then «released into the country by the Obama administration,» the agency added. Meanwhile, in 2022, the Biden administration dismissed Morales-Ortez’s immigration proceedings and eventually marked him as «a non-enforcement priority,» according to DHS.
«There is blood on the hands of Fairfax County politicians for pushing policies that released this illegal alien from Salvadoran from jail and onto the streets of Virginia,» said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. «Fairfax county refused to honor ICE’s detainer and release him into their custody. Just hours after being released from jail, he committed murder in cold blood. Sanctuary policies have deadly consequences. We pray for the victim and his family.»
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The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security says former President Joe Biden’s administration classified an illegal immigrant as a «non-enforcement priority» in 2022. That illegal immigrant was later released after being arrested, and then the next day allegedly killed a man in his home in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County. (Fairfax County Police Department/Getty Images)
Officers investigated the murder scene Wednesday afternoon and night, according to local media. Following a manhunt, Morales-Ortez was eventually tracked down and arrested. Court records showed Morales-Ortez had been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County at the time of his latest arrest and was a suspected MS-13 member.
Morales-Ortez was arrested on Sept. 14 and, according to the office of George Soros-backed district attorney, Steve Descano, the charges were eventually dropped because the victim in the case left the country and indicated they would not cooperate with court proceedings.
«The charges were nolle prossed due to insufficient evidence to move forward with the criminal case,» a spokesperson for the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Office, headed by George Soros-backed Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, told Fox News Digital. «The victim told police that they had moved out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings, regardless of timing. Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward.»

Steve Descano is the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Fairfax County. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Both Fairfax County Police and Descano’s office said that the decision on whether to follow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers ultimately falls under the purview of the sheriff’s office, led by Stacey Kincaid. Fox News Digital reached out to the sheriff’s office for an explanation about how it handles ICE detainers and whether it cooperates, or not, with federal immigration enforcement.
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«The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office follows all local, state, and federal laws when determining whether a person is subject to release from the ADC. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is automatically notified any time a person is booked into the ADC. In this instance, ICE was aware of Morales Ortez’s incarceration and elected not to seek a judicial warrant to ensure he remained in custody,» Fox News Digital was told. «Accordingly, and consistent with our policies and the law, once the court issued an order dismissing his cases, Mr. Morales Ortez was released.»
Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, according to local Virginia news outlet WJLA-TV, is currently considering Kincaid for a top Virginia State Police position.

Marvin Morales-Ortez, who is residing in the country illegally, was released from Fairfax County custody Tuesday and then allegedly committed a murder the following day. (Fairfax County Police Department/Getty Images)
Virginians 4 Safe Communities, a public safety group critical of Descano, slammed the Northern Virginia county’s Soros-backed top cop amid news of Morales-Ortez’s alleged murder and the fact he was released from custody just a day before committing it.
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«For Steve Descano’s office, letting violent criminals out to commit more crimes isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. But he bungles so many cases you can’t always tell where the incompetence ends, and the ideology begins,» Sean Kennedy, Virginians for Safe Communities president, told Fox News Digital. «That a dangerous offender would go free and create more victims is so commonplace in Fairfax that may have become numb to it. Descano exploits that.»
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La dictadura de Maduro ordenó custodiar dos instalaciones petroleras tras el ataque de Estados Unidos a un puerto clave del régimen

La dictadura de Nicolás Maduro ordenó el refuerzo militar en dos de las principales instalaciones energéticas de Venezuela en medio de la presión por parte de Estados Unidos, que en las últimas semanas ejecutó ataques directos contra infraestructura vinculada al narcotráfico y avanzó en el bloqueo del comercio petrolero del país.
La Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (FANB), pilar del sostenimiento del régimen chavista, informó que mantiene unidades desplegadas en el Centro de Refinación Paraguaná, en el estado Falcón, y en el Complejo Petroquímico Ana María Campos, en Zulia, una región fronteriza con Colombia históricamente atravesada por el contrabando y el crimen organizado.
El anuncio fue realizado por el jefe militar de la región occidental, Pedro González Ovalles, en un mensaje difundido por el alto mando castrense.
Según afirmó, el despliegue busca “garantizar la seguridad” de ambas instalaciones, aunque la decisión se produce en medio del aislamiento internacional del régimen y de denuncias sobre el uso de puertos venezolanos para actividades ilícitas.

El refuerzo coincide con la revelación del diario The New York Times de que la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA) de Estados Unidos llevó a cabo un ataque con drones contra un muelle en Venezuela que, según funcionarios estadounidenses, era utilizado por la organización criminal Tren de Aragua para almacenar y despachar cargamentos de droga. De acuerdo con el diario, la operación no dejó víctimas y representa la primera acción conocida de Estados Unidos dentro del territorio venezolano.
El propio presidente Donald Trump confirmó la ofensiva.
“Hubo una gran explosión en la zona del muelle donde cargan las drogas en los barcos”, declaró a periodistas en Mar-a-Lago. Washington sostiene que el ataque forma parte de una campaña ampliada contra redes narcotraficantes que operan con protección de la dictadura de Nicolás Maduro.
El Pentágono ha desplegado drones MQ-9 Reaper en el Caribe como parte de esa estrategia. Según The New York Times, la operación marca un giro en la política estadounidense, que hasta ahora se había concentrado en interceptar embarcaciones en aguas internacionales. Trump había anticipado que Estados Unidos comenzaría a atacar objetivos en tierra vinculados al narcotráfico.
La presión aumentó además tras la incautación de dos buques que transportaban crudo venezolano y el anuncio de un bloqueo total a petroleros sancionados que entren o salgan del país caribeño. La medida golpea directamente a la principal fuente de ingresos del régimen en un contexto de colapso económico y deterioro de la industria energética.
El Centro de Refinación Paraguaná, uno de los complejos más grandes del mundo, opera muy por debajo de su capacidad desde hace años por falta de inversión, corrupción y sanciones. El complejo Ana María Campos, dedicado a fertilizantes y derivados del gas, también ha sufrido paralizaciones recurrentes.
Desde Caracas, funcionarios del régimen denunciaron “amenazas” y “ataques”, sin referirse directamente a la operación estadounidense. El llamado “número dos” del chavismo y ministro de Interior de Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, habló de una campaña de “acoso”, mientras que la chavista Delcy Rodríguez instó a trabajadores petroleros a permanecer en “alerta permanente”.
La dictadura venezolana habló sobre supuestos planes de sabotaje contra instalaciones energéticas, incluidos ataques con explosivos.

Estados Unidos mantiene desde mediados de año un amplio despliegue aeronaval en el Caribe, que justifica como parte de su lucha contra el narcotráfico transnacional.
Para Washington, el régimen de Venezuela se ha convertido en un nodo central de esas redes.
(Con información de EFE)
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US judge orders suspect detained for threatening to kill Richard Grenell

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A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday ordered the detention of a 33-year-old man charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump ally and Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, in what Justice Department officials described as a win for the Trump administration – and for Lindsey Halligan, the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Grenell, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, was not in court for the arraignment Tuesday afternoon, and was identified in a press release only as a «federal employee.»
The Justice Department identified Grenell to Fox News Digital as the individual in question.
The suspect, Scott Allen Bolger, was charged with transmitting threats in interstate commerce, and with making false statements to federal officers, who later used phone evidence to trace the threats back to him. He was arraigned in federal court in Alexandria.
Justice Department officials told Fox News Digital that the decision to hold an individual in pretrial detention is somewhat rare, and described the win as a victory for the Justice Department.
According to court documents, Bolger used Google Voice to send threatening messages to Grenell, including allegedly threatening to kill him. Google Voice allows users to make calls and send messages to phone numbers that are not tied to their primary devices.
Bolger is also accused of lying to members of a federal task force who went to his residence in McLean to question him, falsely identifying himself as «Brian Black.»
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If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
Ambassador Richard Grenell, Kennedy Center president, speaks at the 48th Kennedy Center Honors Medallion Reception at the U.S. Department of State on Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
They also noted that Halligan, who Trump installed as U.S. attorney for EDVA earlier this year, attended the arraignment.
Halligan attended the proceedings, but did not play a formal role, Fox News Digital confirmed.
The Justice Department also shared a victim statement from Grenell with Fox News Digital that was read aloud in court.
«In my current role as a presidential envoy, I have been attacked and harassed by people who don’t know me and who simply want to leave nasty, rude and angry messages because I don’t share their political viewpoint,» Grenell said in the statement.
«But I strongly believe it is their right to be bitter and angry. I understand the passion. And I think the freedom to be rude and angry is a cherished right.»
«But today is much different,» he said. «Today we are dealing with someone who went far beyond sharing his angry opinion. Today we see a man who wants to kill someone because of their political differences.»
«And as we have sadly learned from my friend Charlie Kirk’s death, we must take talk of violence and calls for death seriously. «
«This individual crossed the line from sharing his viewpoint to wanting to shoot someone in the face because he disagrees with them politically. It is very troubling,» he said, adding, «The people doing what he is doing, and there are many, must be given clear instructions from community leaders that their calls for shooting people in the head will have swift and severe consequences. Unstable people are watching what we do today.»
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence of the U.S. Richard Grenell, Sen. Mike Lee, former President Trump, and Glenn Beck participate in a private roundtable discussion on Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Notably, the determination to hold Bolger in pretrial detention was made by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick most recently made headlines for issuing scathing broadsides against DOJ for its handling of grand jury materials in the Comey case, which he said, last month, presented «irregularities» that «may rise to the level of government misconduct.»
The suspect’s arrest comes at a time when threats and intimidation aimed at high-profile figures across all three branches of government have appeared to escalate.
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Polls have shown that people believe political violence is on the rise in the wake of Kirk’s assassination, the murder of two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and violence toward immigration enforcement officials.
Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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