FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia — This murder is on Steve Descano.

There can be no doubt that Stephanie Minter is dead because of the indefensible actions of the Fairfax County “progressive prosecutor.”

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Abdul Jalloh, an immigrant from Sierra Leone in the United States illegally since age 9, was arrested on charges of at least 40 crimes over the years, including stabbings. Descano’s office dropped the serious charges almost every time. Police begged the prosecutor to lock him up, warning that he would do worse. Descano didn’t listen, and Jalloh stabbed Minter to death at a bus stop last month.

Whenever an illegal immigrant kills someone in the U.S., there’s a familiar and unproductive back-and-forth: Republicans will say the victim is a victim of our open borders policies; some liberal or libertarian will respond that this is cherry-picking, and argue that immigrants — legal or not — are actually less likely to commit crimes than are native-born Americans.

This case is different.

Jalloh was free to kill Minter after years of criminal violence, likely because Jalloh was an illegal immigrant. Had he been born in the U.S. or a naturalized citizen, Jalloh would probably have........

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