An illegal immigrant rideshare driver with a prior arrest for sexually abusing a child in New York was free to pick up passengers and rape a teenage girl in Maryland—and every agency from the border to the local jail let him walk.
Abdoulaye Dia’s case isn’t a system failure; it’s the open-border system functioning exactly as designed. Federal border authorities released him into the country, and New York law enforcement let him go despite charges of forcible sexual abuse of a minor. Now a teenage girl in Silver Spring is paying the price for that jurisdictional negligence.
Dia, a citizen of Guinea, entered the United States illegally near Lukeville, Arizona, in December 2023. Instead of being deported, the Department of Homeland Security confirms the Biden administration released him into the interior. That was failure number one.
Fast forward to June 10. Dia was arrested in New York City for sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, forcible touching of intimate parts, injuring a child less than 17, and sexual abuse without consent. Despite these grave charges involving a minor, local authorities released him back onto the streets. That was failure number two.
Unchained by both federal and local authorities, Dia then secured work as a driver for the Empower rideshare app—putting him alone in a vehicle with vulnerable passengers. On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape. She told investigators that Dia, her rideshare driver, took her to a Silver Spring parking lot and sexually assaulted her. Detectives tracked him down using the app’s records, arresting him Wednesday in Lanham, Maryland. He now faces first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault, and third-degree sex offense charges, and is being held without bond.
While the New York Post and Fox News rightly highlighted DHS’s blunt assertion that the Biden administration released Dia after his illegal entry, Baltimore's Fox45 noted the specific Lukeville crossing point and reported that local police believe there may be more victims out there.
Empower rideshare, which put a predator behind the wheel, has not yet commented. Neither has the New York City court system that let a man charged with forcible child sex abuse walk free to offend again.
Dia sits in a Montgomery County cell, but the officials who cleared his path into that rideshare seat remain at their desks. How many more passengers have to be assaulted before the jurisdictions that release these predators face any accountability?
