An illegal alien from Nicaragua exposed himself to one woman and tried to drag another into the woods at a Virginia park — after Biden's border handlers released him into the country and a Soros-backed prosecutor let him walk on felony drug trafficking charges. Moises Domingo Rico Rosales should have been in ICE custody twice over. Instead, he was free to prowl Wakefield Park in Annandale, Virginia, on June 21, where police say he targeted two separate women in the same afternoon.
This is the open-borders pipeline in a nutshell: federal catch-and-release puts criminal aliens on American streets, then sanctuary politicians keep them there. DHS is now publicly demanding that Governor Abigail Spanberger and other Virginia officials turn Rosales over to ICE before he gets another chance to victimize someone.
Rosales illegally crossed into Arizona in 2022 and was released under the Biden administration, DHS says. By 2024, he had been arrested in Fairfax County on felony drug trafficking charges. ICE filed a detainer — a routine request to hold an inmate briefly so federal agents can assume custody. Fairfax County refused to honor it. Court records show Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano dropped the drug charges, clearing the path for Rosales' release.
Descano took office in 2020 after more than $600,000 in backing from a George Soros-funded PAC, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. In May, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into whether Descano's office gave preferential treatment to illegal alien defendants by directing prosecutors to consider the "immigration consequences" of charging decisions. Descano told a House Judiciary subcommittee in May that his office "does not provide sanctuary or safe harbor to undocumented immigrants." DHS says otherwise: three-quarters of murder investigations in Fairfax identified illegal aliens as primary suspects.
Rosales racked up more contacts with the system after the drug charges were dropped. He was convicted of driving without a license in 2024 and cited for reckless driving in 2025. He was also charged with attempted robbery in July 2025, but that charge was amended to disorderly conduct and dismissed through a deferred disposition plea deal.
Fairfax County officials are pushing back on DHS's framing. The Sheriff's Office told Fox News Digital that ICE filed only an "informal request" in 2024 and "failed to act upon" it after a court ordered Rosales released. The county's longstanding policy is to refuse ICE detainers without a judicial warrant — a position ICE has warned forces more dangerous at-large arrests instead of safe jail transfers.
This case follows the murder of 41-year-old Stephanie Minter, stabbed to death at a Virginia bus stop by Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone with more than 30 prior arrests. That killing prompted the same House Judiciary hearing where Descano and Sheriff Stacey Kincaid faced questioning about the county's handling of criminal aliens.
Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis put it plainly: "Open border and sanctuary policies have real consequences, and they are the creation of more innocent victims." The question now is whether any official in Virginia's sanctuary apparatus will ever face consequences of their own.
