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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is sending subpoenas to district attorneys in Boulder, Colorado, and Fairfax, Virginia, accusing them of giving "preferential treatment" to illegal immigrant criminals. Jordan cites lack of document production by these offices despite repeated requests. The move targets sanctuary jurisdictions where local law enforcement does not cooperate with federal immigration authorities; the investigation comes alongside Rep. Tom McClintock's subcommittee on immigration enforcement.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, is sending subpoenas to district attorneys in Boulder, Colorado, and Fairfax, Virginia. The subpoenas accuse these district attorneys of giving "preferential treatment" to "criminal aliens," claiming they endanger communities by failing to hold foreign national criminals accountable for their actions.
Jordan's committee has been investigating district attorneys who are accused of considering immigration status when pursuing criminal cases, despite the alleged crime having no relation to immigration. The letters, obtained by Fox News Digital, state that both Steve Descano from Fairfax and Michael Dougherty from Boulder have not produced any documents in response to repeated requests.
The city of Boulder issued an ordinance in January 2017 directing government employees not to work with federal immigration authorities or inquire into a person's immigration status. This move was made after the election of President Donald Trump, highlighting the tension between local policies and national immigration enforcement efforts.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is ratcheting up his crackdown against sanctuary jurisdictions across the country.
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Jordan → ratchet → country
Jordan is sending subpoenas to district attorneys in Boulder, Colorado, and Fairfax, Virginia, accusing both of giving "preferential treatment" to "criminal aliens" when weighing whether and how to prosecute wrongdoing.
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Jordan → send → wrongdoing
"Despite repeated requests for responsive documents and communications, you have not produced a single document.
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Accordingly, because you have failed to comply with the Committee’s requests, the Committee is serving compulsory process," he wrote in separate letters to Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty, both obtained by Fox News Digital.
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"Your office’s lenient treatment of foreign national criminals endangers communities and ensures that criminal aliens escape both criminal and immigration accountability for their actions.
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Jordan's committee has for weeks investigated district attorneys who have been accused of taking immigration status into account when pursuing criminal complaints, even when the alleged crime has nothing to do with the suspect's legal status.
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Descano, in particular, has recently made headlines after the stabbing death of 41-year-old U.S. citizen Stephanie Minter, whose accused killer came to the U.S. illegally from Sierra Leone in 2012.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the man had been arrested over 30 times before Minter's killing.
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man → say → killing
Descano, who has led the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office since January 2020, issued plea bargaining guidance that year saying prosecutors should "consider immigration consequences where possible" and consider "the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with," according to local outlet WTOP News.
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Meanwhile, Dougherty recently lost his Democratic primary campaign to be attorney general of the state of Colorado.
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He told Boulder Reporting Lab in May that Jordan's probe was "political theater that ignores serious failures within the federal immigration system."
The city of Boulder issued an ordinance in January 2017, after President Donald Trump was elected, directing government employees not to work with federal immigration authorities or "inquire into a person's immigration status."
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Boulder and Fairfax counties are known as a sanctuary jurisdictions, meaning local law enforcement is not bound to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
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Jordan's probe is being conducted alongside Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., who chairs the Judiciary panel's subcommittee on immigration enforcement.
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Jordan previously told Fox News Digital that he would not rule out subpoenas if the district attorneys did not comply with Republicans' requests for information.
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attorneys → tell → information
"There's a process we always go through.
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We ask for things, we ask again, we explain why, we work with their office — in some cases their counsel — and back and forth," he said in late August.
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"And then if we have to use subpoenas, we certainly will do that ... but we want to know the facts."
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