Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
On Thursday's Fox & Friends, the show gave attention to another story in which an illegal alien who entered the country under President Joe Biden went on to commit a savage murder.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade set up the story: "An arrest has been made for the murder of this Virginia mom. Police say illegal immigrant Alexis Campos has confessed to the killing. The DHS blaming the Biden administration for catching the migrant in 2024 and set him free."
Fox reporter Madeleine Rivera then recalled that El Salvadorean national Alexis Cedillos-Campos murdered one of his co-workers, Carmen Puch, who worked at the same restaurant as the perpetrator:
...19-year-old Alexis Campos is now facing second-degree murder after Fairfax County police say he repeatedly stabbed and killed 42-year-old Carmen Puch. Puch is the mother of a three-year-old girl. She was found outside of her car at a trail in Great Falls Park, Virginia, on Monday.
After noting that they the two were romantically involved, Rivera added:
Police say surveillance video showed Campos, hours before the murder, arming himself with a large fixed knife that he took from the restaurant, taking a pair of black latex gloves, and a water bottle. He allegedly filled that bottle with gasoline which he doused on Puch after the stabbing to try and set her on fire, but he was unsuccessful.
She then recalled that the killer was allowed into the country by President Biden after crossing the border illegally:
Federal sources say Campos crossed the Southern border illegally in El Paso, Texas, in April 2024, and was apprehended by Border Patrol where he was quickly released into the country by the Biden administration. Fox was told he gave an address for a family member in Maryland and was let go.
As the three Fox co-hosts discussed the story, it was pointed out that it is very difficult to find out if an illegally alien has a criminal record back in their home country, will illustrates the importance requiring a legal immigration process which involved getting a criminal background check before coming into the U.S.
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt also noted that half of the murders committed in Fairfax County this year have been committed by illegal aliens.
Transcript follows:
Fox & Friends
August 2020, 2026
7:01 a.m. Eastern
BRIAN KILMEADE: An arrest has been made for the murder of this Virginia mom. Police say illegal immigrant Alexis Campos has confessed to the killing. The DHS blaming the Biden administration for catching the migrant in 2024 and set him free.
CHARLES HURT: Enraging. Madeleine Rivera joins us now with the latest. Good morning, Maddie. What can you tell us about this case?
MADELEINE RIVERA: Hi, good morning, guys. Well, that's right -- 19-year-old Alexis Campos is now facing second-degree murder after Fairfax County police say he repeatedly stabbed and killed 42-year-old Carmen Puch. Puch is the mother of a three-year-old girl. She was found outside of her car at a trail in Great Falls Park, Virginia, on Monday. Campos and Puch had an intimate relationship, authorities say. Both worked at a restaurant in Herndon. Police say surveillance video showed Campos, hours before the murder, arming himself with a large fixed knife that he took from the restaurant, taking a pair of black latex gloves, and a water bottle. He allegedly filled that bottle with gasoline which he doused on Puch after the stabbing to try and set her on fire, but he was unsuccessful.
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Federal sources say Campos crossed the Southern border illegally in El Paso, Texas, in April 2024, and was apprehended by Border Patrol where he was quickly released into the country by the Biden administration. Fox was told he gave an address for a family member in Maryland and was let go. A DHS spokesperson says, "Biden and former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas hand-delivered alleged killer Cedillos-Campos to the streets of Fairfax County. ... We are urging Governor Spanberger to put her community first and turn over this criminal illegal alien to ICE."
Police say they're also looking for a black sedan that Campos may have used to travel to the scene. Charlie, Ainsley, and Brian?
HURT: Thank you, Maddie. It's absolutely infuriating. It's all predictable. Everybody could have seen this. And it's not just the old Biden policies. It's the current policies of the current governor of Virginia, who continues to refuse to work with ICE and has turned all of Virginia into a basically a sanctuary state.
AINSLEY EARHARDT: Fairfax County -- you know it -- I mean, you --
KILMEADE: It's a nice area.
EARHARDT: Yeah, beautiful area. But it's pretty liberal, right? Because we always talked about the schools being so liberal.
HURT: Yeah, that's how they end up with these crackpot politicians.
EARHARDT: Yeah, well, this guy that the attorney, Steve Descano -- he's the attorney for Fairfax County, and he's known to be very soft on crime. He's a progressive. He went to West Point, but he's very progressive. He wants to eliminate -- is for eliminating cash bail. We know how that works because we have it here in New York City. He wants to expand the diversion programs, avoid prosecution if you get caught smoking marijuana or if you have it on you, and we're learning now, Brian, four out of the eight people -- there have been eight people who have -- who are suspected of homicide this year alone -- four of them are in the county illegally.
KILMEADE: So it's so interesting is, I'm listening to the conference yesterday and the cops and the D.A. and everyone talking about the outrage. Nobody really wants to bring up the guy is here illegally. And then when the question comes up, "Well, it's not up to me to look at legal status."
What do you mean it's not up to you? If you want to find out how to stop the next crime -- be able to track down new crimes, you have to be able to find out the origin of the would-be killer. So the 19-year-old whom they kept calling "killer" who has confessed to everything, why not add to the fact that he doesn't belong here and that that adds to the fact that maybe you want to find out how to stop the next killing, maybe working better with ICE to see the next illegal.
Now, what also comes to mind, too, is this 19-year-old doesn't have a record. So for those people who say, "Well, we're just going to get out the criminals, oh, yeah, we've got to get everybody out because we don't know who's a criminal.
HURT: Right.
KILMEADE: You already broke the law and, second, sticking around. Now, he's in a relationship and decides to horrifically murder this woman. You got to see how they describe what happened to (her). She died the most horrific way possible, and his goal was to burn her alive. He had a plastic water bottle. He got rid of the bottle, put gasoline in it. He planned on burning her alive. So, "Well, he doesn't have a record -- he's illegal -- don't stereotype" -- I'm not going to stereotype. You already broke our law once -- you don't belong here. You got to go. Because if you're going to -- if you have these criminal tendencies, I can't detect it. I don't want to be the first victim of your criminal tendencies.
HURT: And that's one of the most basic problems with open borders is just exactly what you said, which is, "Okay, he doesn't have a criminal record." Because there is no record! We have absolutely --
KILMEADE: That, too -- that, too.
HURT: -- no idea. We have no relationship with these countries. We don't know where the countries they're coming from. So of course we don't know any of this.
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