DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has confirmed that illegal aliens are responsible for approximately 50% of all murders in the affluent, and deep blue, Northern Virginia suburb of Fairfax County, just outside Washington, D.C.

Mullin made the revelation during a Thursday Fox News interview while on the ground with ICE agents in Virginia.

The DHS Secretary was accompanying ICE in an early-morning operation in Manassas that resulted in the arrest of a repeat criminal illegal alien who had been deported multiple times but still managed to sneak back into the country.

“Just use Fairfax, Virginia, for example. Roughly 50% of the murders in Fairfax, Virginia… the perps are illegal, shouldn’t even be in the country to begin with. That’s just in Fairfax. You think about what’s happening in Virginia. When you make Virginia a sanctuary city, you encourage more illegal activities,” Mullin stated.

Mullin directly blamed sanctuary-style policies pushed by Virginia Democrats, including Governor Abigail Spanberger, for turning the state into a magnet for criminal illegal aliens.

“Well, unfortunately, we’re not working with [Spanberger] at all. She’s criminalized us to some degree. She went out there, she’s warned all law enforcement not to work with us,” Mullin told Fox News.

“This individual right here that we just arrested, this is his third time being deported. He self-deported once; he was deported again. He’s snuck back across; he’s been living here in this country again, with a history of criminal activity. This shouldn’t be happening in our streets, in our neighborhood,” he added.

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WTF?! DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin confirms 50% PERCENT of *ALL* murders in deep-blue Fairfax County, Virginia were committed by illegal aliens

Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Democrat officials are RUINING their own state!

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There has been a string of high-profile murders in Fairfax County involving illegal immigrants, including the February stabbing death of Stephanie Minter at a bus stop.

The suspect in that case, Abdul Jalloh, a Sierra Leone national, had more than two dozen prior charges, many of which were dropped under local policies that limit cooperation with ICE.

Fairfax County has long been criticized for its lenient approach to immigration enforcement.

Mullin praised ICE and President Donald Trump’s leadership for working to make American streets safer.

“Right now, what you’re seeing is ICE doing its job. I mean, it’s early in the morning, and these guys are out there working every day, protecting their roads, protecting their streets,” Mullin said. “We have 22,000 ICE officers, 80,000 officers throughout DHS, and they’re doing their jobs.”

“They’re doing exactly what President Trump said he wanted to. Get America’s streets safe again, the previous administration let them run amok that these are criminals. Even when we have you know politicians that want to protect the criminals, President Trump is still protecting all our neighborhoods, and these guys around here are doing their job even early in the morning.”

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