Sparks Fly Between Van Drew & Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney About Illegal Immigrant Criminal

[0:00] Mr. Bandrew. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to bring us, I think the other side has brought us [0:07] the bizarro world, and I want to bring us to the world of reality. First of all, I want to say to [0:13] you, Ms. Minter, and I mean it, I know you hear crocodile tears from politicians, you hear how [0:18] sorry, you hear how sad, you hear the condolences. None of that does it, Justice. There's no words I [0:25] can ever say. I say this every time we have another victim's family here. I pray to God [0:31] there's a day when this no longer happens and we don't have to have these hearings, but we are going [0:36] to have them with the good leadership of our chairman of this committee because it needs to be talked [0:40] about, and if it needs to be talked about over and over again, and good Americans like you are willing [0:45] to be here because you love your children, because you loved her, and you're willing to stand up, [0:50] I applaud you because more than a condolence, more than any of that, is when somebody says that to [0:56] you, say change the policy. Don't let it happen to somebody else. It shouldn't happen to anybody. [1:03] God help you, I don't know how you do it, but we are praying for you. Secondly, when I say I want to [1:08] bring us out of bizarro world, I was thinking about all the empty, you know a lot of times people gather [1:14] around the kitchen table, Stephanie Minter's chair, that chair at the table is empty tonight, [1:19] Lake and Riley's chair is empty tonight, Rachel Moran's chair is empty tonight, Jocelyn McGarry's [1:25] chair, they're all human beings, they're all human souls that had families that love them and they [1:30] love their family, they're gone, and we got more than that. We could spend the whole time here reading [1:36] lists of people who've been murdered and hurt and beaten and raped because of what's happened [1:41] in these policies. They're human beings, and you know what the worst of it is? And not the most [1:46] important part, but on top of all of it, we're paying for all this. Sanctuary states and sanctuary [1:52] cities cost a fortune. State in New Jersey, where I am, they estimate, and this is not me, this came [1:58] out in publications, 7.3 billion, not million, billion dollars every year because of sanctuary [2:05] policies. That's a lot of money for people who are really squeezed, and it's horrible, and it [2:11] shouldn't happen. And also, I want to allude to the fact, yet people are worried about sometimes when [2:16] ICE goes into where there's a church, where there's a department store, or there's a school. [2:23] Nobody really wants that. Do you know why that's happening? It's happening predominantly in blue [2:27] states because the local law enforcement, state, county, and local in sanctuary states are not allowed [2:37] to cooperate, where normally they would turn somebody over to ICE, and you wouldn't have to go [2:42] through that process. If we all cooperated, worked together, and cared about the people we serve, [2:47] we'd be in better shape. Mr. Descano, simple question. Are American communities safer when illegal [2:54] immigrants who commit crimes are deported, or when they remain in those communities? Are they safer when [2:59] they're deported communities? Yes or no? Just yes or no? Well, sir, that's not... Yes or no? Yes or no? [3:04] Yes or no? Sir? I'm asking the question... And I'm trying to answer them. No, you are... [3:08] Because you asked me a question that's outside of my purview. I can tell you... [3:11] Jim Jordan down there asked you questions. You're a human being. You're sitting next to a woman who lost [3:16] her daughter. Can you tell me if illegal criminals are removed from the country if we're safer? [3:21] And to suggest that I don't care about what happens in my community. No, this is my time. [3:25] I go to work every day trying to protect my community. You are going to answer my questions. [3:28] You are going to answer my questions. You don't show any discipline. When I'm asked questions, [3:33] I answer them. So you're not willing to answer that question. Okay. [3:37] So I ask you this question. Let's talk about Abdul Jalat. Yes or no? Would Stephanie Minter be alive [3:44] today if he had been deported? And you know why he wasn't deported? Because then, quite frankly, [3:50] the administration was not as aggressive, and if a country didn't want to accept these awful people [3:55] that came from the country, we didn't know where to send them, and we held them, and we detained them. [3:59] Now we're finding places to send them so that this doesn't go on. That's the answer. That's why that [4:04] happened. It's not a mystery. It's not something weird or unusual. They didn't know where the heck [4:10] to put it. Now we just do it, and we get it done. But nevertheless, would we be safer if he wasn't in [4:17] the country then? Would we be safer, yes or no? Yes or no, or would it be safer if the man wasn't in [4:25] the country? Damn it, answer my question. Sir, I'm trying. You keep changing the question. No, [4:29] it's yes or no. There's a bad guy that murders people. Are we safer that he's not in the country? [4:34] If somebody is... Nope, you can't answer the question. I'm sorry. I'll ask you this. Explain to [4:41] the lady next to you. Abdul Jalai was charged in your county more than 40 times. Not four times, [4:47] 40 times. Your office dropped the charges in almost every single case. That's fact. We have it [4:53] documented. We can look at it. Your own Fairfax County Police Department wrote your office. We have [5:00] it. It's fact. May 2025 saying he had shown a, quote, blazing disregard for human life that was a danger [5:08] to the community and that if he wasn't detained and deported, he would seriously hurt someone or kill [5:15] someone. The very man went out and then killed someone. So the question is, couldn't have we [5:20] done better there? Yeah, the gentleman's time has expired. We'll take that as a rhetorical question [5:24] and Mr. Nadler's recognized. Oh, well.