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The DUmpster / Re: Canadians have a new name for the US
« Last post by SVPete on September 01, 2026, 08:30:15 AM »I should care ... why?
Fairfax County Won't Hand Over Illegal Alien Who Abused Multiple Students
Democratic authorities in sanctuary state Virginia have released a convicted illegal alien sexual assaulter who targeted teen girls a little early, although they did — unusually — allow federal officers to take him into custody.
... Fairfax County’s school district spent a significant part of the school year in denial about Ortiz’s repeated assaults on female students. Then, after Ortiz finally received nine charges of assault and battery, Fairfax Sheriff Stacey Kincaid refused to hand him over to ICE. The Biden administration had released Ortiz into the country, ... .
Despite all the charges against him of assault and battery, despite the fact that he was 18 years old and his victims were minors, Ortiz received only 180 days of jail time, or 20 days for each count of assault and battery. ... .
What is shocking is that for once, breaking a lengthy habit, Fairfax County reportedly cooperated with ICE’s pickup of Ortiz.
surfered (16,197 posts)
Canadians have a new name for the US
niyad (137,286 posts)
1. Sadly true.
OldBaldy1701E (12,247 posts)
30. Yeah, but after this, will most Canadians want to be friends with such wishy-washy people? (n/t)
littlemissmartypants (37,153 posts)
9. We deserve to just be ignored all together, imo. ❤️
Joinfortmill (22,467 posts)
12. Impeach him! Vote!
https://democraticunderground.com/100221476891
Just shy of four years ago I wrote about a case in which DA Larry Krasner's office had freed a convicted murderer and then the same man, Jahmir Harris, became a suspect in another, very similar murder. The judge had agreed to vacate the previous conviction in 2021, but still had some criticism for Krasner's Conviction Integrity Unit.
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I looked up the outcome of this case and Jahmir Harris was in fact arrested and charged with the Sept. 2022 murder of Charles Gossett but so far it seems that case hasn't been prosecuted.
In any case, this isn't the only time Krasner's office has gotten in trouble for trying to free a convicted murderer. Last year a supervisor in Krasner's office was disbarred for lying to the court over another case.
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Just two months ago another member of Krasner's team had her license to practice law suspended for lying to a judge about the same case.
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Specifically, the murderer in this case killed a couple then turned off the heat in their house and left their 7-month-old daughter to die. The baby survived and when Krasner's office sought to overturn the death penalty, his lawyers informed the judge that the victim's family approved of the effort. In fact they had never contacted the surviving daughter, Lisa Hart-Newman, at all. That's the kind of lawyers Krasner hires: ideologues with no shame. The judge ordered Krasner to write an apology letter to the surviving daughter.
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And all of that brings us to last week where Krasner's team was in court again trying to help free yet another convicted murderer. But thanks to his office's previous missteps the court was full of attorneys including three from his own office who argued the case was being mishandled.
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But the biggest revelation during last Thursday's hearing was testimony from Ernst, one of the three lawyers still working for Krasner, that he had threatened to fire anyone who told the judge about problems with the case.
That reminds me of the Democrat who famously said "Some people did some things" (or words to that effect) on 9/11.



Ocelot II (132,958 posts)
How did everything get so *stupid*?
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CBS News
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As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.
El-Sayed is a leader of a new crop of candidates from a wing of his party that opposed American wars and capitalized on anger over anti-Arab sentiment in a state with a robust and active Muslim community. But now he is attempting to adapt — and in some cases delete — past statements that may run afoul of a broad, general election audience.
As El-Sayed heads into the fall general election campaign against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, El-Sayed, a former public health official, has already been forced to distance himself from the views of Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who has appeared at El-Sayed's campaign events and who generated controversy for declaring that "America deserved 9/11" before later retracting the remark.
Meanwhile, El-Sayed's past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.
In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."