DHS slams ‘insane’ 5-year plea deal for illegal immigrants who admitted fatal stabbing in Virginia

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security is blasting Fairfax County, Virginia prosecutors for offering what it calls an "insane" plea woody to 2 amerciable immigrants who admitted to a brutal murder.

DHS says Maldin Anibal Guzman-Videz and Luis Alonzo Sort-Portillo — who are some successful the U.S. illegally — stabbed a antheral to decease astatine a parkland and walking way successful Oakton, Virginia, successful July 2024. The victim’s assemblage was aboriginal discovered by a assemblage subordinate successful a wooded area, prompting a constabulary response.

Despite the severity of the crime, DHS said the 2 suspects person been offered a plea woody that would effect successful conscionable 5 years successful situation and the eventual merchandise of "two monsters" backmost connected American streets.

Maldin Anibal Guzman-Videz successful a booking photo. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) condemned the Fairfax County District Attorney’s Office for offering 2 convicted amerciable alien murderers, Maldin Anibal Guzman-Videz and Luis Alonzo Sort-Portillo, a plea woody aft the 2 stabbed a antheral to decease successful Fairfax County successful 2024. (The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS))

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The 2 men pleaded blameworthy to second-degree execution by mob and were sentenced to 25 years, with 20 years suspended, leaving 5 years to serve, Fox News has learned. A justice accepted the plea agreements.

Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said that this is simply a "sweetheart plea deal" with murders.

"This 5-year sweetheart plea woody for execution is insane," Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. "This is yet different illustration of Fairfax sanctuary politicians siding with transgression amerciable aliens implicit U.S. citizens."

Federal migration authorities accidental they person repeatedly asked Fairfax officials not to merchandise Guzman-Videz from custody successful the past, but those requests were ignored.

ICE has requested that some men not beryllium released backmost into the community, arsenic DHS calls connected Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and section leaders to guarantee they stay down bars. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

According to DHS, Guzman-Videz, a Honduran national, was issued a last bid of removal successful 2019 but remained successful the United States. He aboriginal accumulated aggregate arrests, including for assault, malicious wounding, larceny, obstruction of justice, and nonaccomplishment to appear.

According to the Fairfax County Times, helium besides allegedly robbed a edifice and allegedly attacked idiosyncratic with a knife.

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Luis Alonzo Sort-Portillo successful a booking photo. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) condemned the Fairfax County District Attorney’s Office for offering 2 convicted amerciable alien murderers, Maldin Anibal Guzman-Videz and Luis Alonzo Sort-Portillo, a plea woody aft the 2 stabbed a antheral to decease successful Fairfax County successful 2024. (The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS))

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Sort-Portillo, the 2nd suspect, is simply a Salvadoran nationalist who entered the U.S. illegally astatine an chartless time, according to DHS.

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ICE has present requested that some men not beryllium released backmost into the community, arsenic DHS calls connected Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and section leaders to guarantee they stay down bars.

"We are calling connected Fairfax County sanctuary politicians and Governor Spanberger to perpetrate to not releasing these murderers from jailhouse backmost into our communities," Bis said. "How galore much times indispensable they merchandise criminals into our neighborhoods to make much guiltless victims?"

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DHS besides criticized Fairfax County’s broader attack to migration enforcement, claiming the county's sanctuary policies person contributed to an summation of convulsive crime.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger responds to President Donald Trump's State of the Union. (Steve Helber/Reuters)

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The bureau said that amerciable immigrants person been liable for 75% of murders successful the region truthful acold successful 2026, though that fig has not been independently verified.

The section pointed to respective caller cases involving amerciable immigrants accused of convulsive crimes, including the sidesplitting of a three-month-old child, a fatal stabbing wrong a home, and the execution of a parent astatine a Virginia autobus stop. ICE says it has lodged detainers successful each case.

Fox News' Michael Dorgan and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.