Another child harmed by an illegal…On Wednesday, October 8. 2025 Fox News ran another sad headline, “Illegal immigrant gets 30 years for raping 11-year-old Virginia girl multiple times.”
An illegal immigrant from El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl in Virginia Beach, local officials said Wednesday.
The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office shared Ricardo Leonel Mejia’s custody status on X and cited “numerous public inquiries” about Mejia’s case.
“Mejia, a citizen of El Salvador, will serve his 30-year sentence at the Virginia Department of Corrections before being transferred to ICE custody,” the post read.
The case has sparked debate among Virginia’s leaders who are disputing whether the state should limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger says that one of her first acts in office would be to reverse Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s immigration enforcement policies making Virginia a “sanctuary state,” according to the Republican Governors Association.
This policy would prevent local law enforcement from assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in cases like Mejia’s, where ICE has issued a detainer for an undocumented immigrant convicted of serious crimes.
Virginia GOP governor candidate, Winsome Earle-Sears reacted by sharing a post on X and said she was “sickened beyond words.”
“You have to ask yourself what kind of sicko would want a sanctuary state, not just a city, which would be just as sick, but a whole state?” Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based centrally in Harrison, Arkansas. “How could any American citizen vote someone into office that has such sinister plans? 30 years isn’t nearly enough time. In my opinion he should be executed for this crime against a child. He is a 3 time deported illegal, deported in 1996, 2003, and 2012. He has a rap sheet that includes sex offenses involving a child under 14, sexual battery, illegal possession of a firearm, DUI, and robbery. This sick minded illegal pervert will only be 65 when he’s released. He could possibly have 20-25 years left of life, probably doing the same crimes that landed him in prison. This child that he scarred for life will be a 41 year old woman sitting in a shrinks office still haunted by what this sicko did to her. Do you call this justice?”
