Homeland Security did not ask Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger for a photo op. It asked her not to put a charged killer back on the street.
On Aug. 30, Staunton police answered a 911 call and found two stabbed women. One was dead at the scene. The other went to the hospital. The man they arrested at the scene was Freddi Chigo Mil, an illegal alien from Mexico. He now faces second-degree murder and malicious wounding. ICE lodged a detainer the same day at Middle River Regional Jail and told Spanberger and her sanctuary partners to keep him locked up so he can be removed after he faces justice.
That should not require a press release from Washington. In a sane country, a foreign national charged with murdering a woman on a Virginia street would already be headed out. In Spanberger’s Virginia, the federal government has to beg.
“This is what the Commonwealth of Virginia has become under the sanctuary policies of Governor Abigail Spanberger and her fellow sanctuary politicians,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “It’s time to put an end to these preventable tragedies. Deporting illegal aliens saves lives.”
She Cut the Wire on Day One
This did not sneak up on Richmond. In her first days as governor, Spanberger signed executive orders barring state cooperation with ICE and killing Virginia’s 287(g) agreements. Those pacts let troopers, corrections officers, and local deputies help federal agents identify and hold illegal aliens already in custody. Youngkin used them. Spanberger tore them up.
Then the bodies started stacking.
DHS says Virginia has logged more than 20 serious illegal-alien crime cases in 2026 alone. The charge sheet is not shoplifting. It is murder, rape, abduction, child sexual abuse material, sex crimes against children, and an attempt to take a cop’s gun. Fairfax County keeps showing up on the list like a magnet.
The same day ICE asked Spanberger not to release Mil, agents arrested Yinmi Molina-Zepeda in Woodbridge. He is a Salvadoran illegal alien wanted at home for aggravated homicide. That is the pattern. They enter. They stay. They hunt.
A Roster No Governor Should Own
Read the names and try to call this compassion.
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- Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran, Mexican illegal alien, charged with second-degree murder and aggravated sexual battery in the death of a 2-year-old girl in Louisa County.
- Abdul Jalloh, Sierra Leone illegal alien with more than 30 prior arrests, charged with murder after fatally stabbing 41-year-old Stephanie Minter at a Fairfax bus stop.
- Juan Arevalo Mendez, twice-deported Salvadoran illegal alien, charged with rape and abduction in Fairfax County.
- Jose Nahun Aleman Hernandez, charged with molesting a 5-year-old girl in Woodbridge, then granted bond.
- Jorge Enrique Garcia-Rodriguez, charged with forcible intercourse with a child under 13 and six counts of possessing child pornography.
- Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz, convicted on nine counts after groping underage girls at a Fairfax high school, then given a slap-on-the-wrist sentence before ICE finally deported him.
- Misael Lopez Gomez, charged with murder and felony child abuse after allegedly bludgeoning his own 3-month-old daughter to death.
Breitbart and Townhall have been tracking the same roster. So has DHS. This is not a couple of hard cases. This is a policy harvest.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed.
Sanctuary is that decree. It writes protection for the lawbreaker into the operating manual of the state and then acts shocked when the next woman is found in the street.
The Prosecutor Problem Sits Right Next to the Governor
Spanberger is not working this machine alone. Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano has spent years telling prosecutors to weigh “collateral immigration consequences” when they charge and plea out cases. That is a polite way of saying do not do anything that might get the illegal alien deported.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has now subpoenaed Descano for records after the office stonewalled earlier requests. Jordan’s letter is blunt. Preferential treatment of foreign-national criminals lets them dodge both criminal punishment and removal. Descano’s office called the subpoena a “partisan siege.” Dead women are not a talking point. They are the exhibit.
Jennifer Harrison of the Victims’ Rights Reform Council told Fox News the arrangement is already insane. The federal government now has to ask state and local officials not to release dangerous illegal aliens after there are bodies on the pavement. Sean Kennedy of Virginians for Safe Communities put it cleaner still. Spanberger’s posture is not pro-immigrant. It is pro-criminal. The people these predators most often destroy are the very migrants she claims to protect.
The Script From the Governor’s Office
Spanberger’s spokespeople recite the same paragraph every time. She “strongly believes” violent criminals who are here illegally should be prosecuted and deported. The Department of Corrections still notifies ICE when someone born outside the United States is in state custody. She used to hunt child predators as a federal officer. She will always prioritize Virginia families.
Fine. Then honor the detainers. Restore 287(g). Tell Descano to stop sanding the edges off charges so a rapist can dodge ICE. Answer a reporter when a 16-year-old is shot dead in Manassas instead of sitting in the car with the window up. Words are cheap. Policy is what fills the morgue.
She also rebuilt the parole board. Reporter Nick Minock found criminals are now ten times more likely to win parole than they were under Glenn Youngkin. Families of murder victims have already watched killers walk with decades left on the clock. Softness at the jailhouse door and softness at the prison gate are the same theology. The offender is the client. The public is the inconvenience.
A ruler who will not bear the sword is not merciful. He is negligent. Romans says the magistrate is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Spanberger took the oath and then spent her opening week telling the sword to stand down.
Mil is still in jail tonight because local police did their job and ICE filed the paperwork. The question hanging over Richmond is whether the governor’s political project will treat that detention as an inconvenience to be lawyered away. Virginia already knows what happens when it does. Stephanie Minter knew. That 2-year-old in Louisa County never got the chance to know anything else.
Deporting illegal aliens saves lives. Mullin is right. The only mystery left is why a governor who sold herself as a moderate still needs to be told.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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