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Where I live, tucked in the Virginia woods in D.C.\u2019s outer suburbs, a body being found stabbed to death and doused in gasoline is virtually unprecedented. The murder was unsolved, and the killer could be lurking in any of our backyards.<\/p>

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I don\u2019t typically go on Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social media app designed to bring neighbors together to discuss issues like community safety, but this seemed like exactly what it was made for. Everyone there was on edge.<\/p>

Its users are already a notoriously jumpy bunch. Every Fourth of July, someone will invariably write that they think they heard gunshots. A man once pleaded with people on his block to stop using their fireplaces in the winter because the smoke coming from chimneys assaulted his nose on his afternoon walks.<\/p>

Yet when an arrest was made, I could find no stand-down notification on the platform. So I took it upon myself to calm them with a one-sentence message: \u201cA 19-year-old illegal immigrant has been arrested for stabbing the woman in Great Falls Park.\u201d<\/p>

Suddenly, the trembling fear of these residents of a wealthy D.C. enclave reversed. People who endlessly discussed the best way to rat on a neighbor with a barking dog to their HOA turned into gargoyles that took a blas\u00e9 view of cold-blooded murder.<\/p>

\u201cDo you post every time a person from another race commits a crime? Or every time a U.S. citizen commits a crime?\u201d a woman wrote.<\/p>

\u201cThere have only been nine murders in Fairfax this year,\u201d another said, as if that made it no big deal.<\/p>

On a platform where a large portion of the posts are literally \u201cI saw a fox, should I be concerned?\u201d \u201cI heard a loud noise\u201d or \u201cI lost my dog,\u201d the threshold for alerting neighbors was suddenly revised: A literal murder in our backyards should go unexamined.<\/p>

Someone posted a picture of white males and wrote, \u201cThese so called citizens kill more than any immigrant.\u201d Similar posts followed, saying that residents of Fairfax County should instead be on the lookout for white men.<\/p>

The fear they held hours prior was gone, along with any outrage that murder had crept into a peaceful place, or sympathy for the victim. Multiple people invoked an unnamed academic study which, they said, held that illegal immigrants are more law-abiding than Americans.<\/p>

Of course, murder in Fairfax County is a rare enough thing that you don\u2019t need an academic study: There had been eight people arrested for murder this year (one had two victims), so I replied by listing each of their names, along with their immigration status. Four were illegal immigrants. A fifth had a foreign name but an unknown immigration status. A sixth was a juvenile whose information was unknown.<\/p>

I posted that list with no further comment.<\/p>

Then I got an email that anonymous moderators had deleted my post for \u201cdiscrimination.\u201d<\/p>

With the facts deleted, residents then suggested that the stabbing in our quiet community wasn\u2019t at the hands of an illegal immigrant at all. After all, how could multiple sources fail to mention such an obviously significant fact if it were true?<\/p>

\u201cWhere are you seeing he\u2019s illegal? I\u2019ve read several articles and not one said,\u201d one said.<\/p>

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A killing in a town populated by Cabinet secretaries and Virginia\u2019s former governor is a newsworthy event, so Fairfax County police chief Kevin Davis held a press conference. But when a reporter asked the killer\u2019s immigration status, he, too, refused to say. (The future killer, we know thanks to federal authorities, had been apprehended when crossing the border, but the Biden administration knowingly unleashed him into the interior of the country instead of turning him back.)<\/span><\/p>

Nextdoor\u2019s moderators (the site literally encourages people to \u201creport a neighbor\u201d to its anonymous mods) seemed to be concerned that too many people were finding out the truth. A few hours after I posted the thread, I received another email saying my entire account had been \u201ctemporarily suspended\u201d due to the original one-sentence post, and the whole thread was whisked into the ether.<\/p>

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Sean Kennedy, who runs a public safety nonprofit called Virginians for Safe Communities, postulated that the site may object to the language \u201cillegal immigrant,\u201d preferring euphemisms like \u201cpeople who are unlawfully present.\u201d<\/p>

So he made a similar post without using the term.<\/p>

His account, too, was banned.<\/p>

It didn\u2019t seem to be language they objected to \u2014 it was people knowing the facts at all. Those who posted the local TV story \u201cHalf of Fairfax County homicide suspects in 2026 are in the U.S. illegally\u201d also were sanctioned.<\/p>

Illegal immigrant crime has become a hot-button topic in Northern Virginia because any clear-eyed view of crime in general will spot the wildly disproportionate connection \u2014 and Democrats\u2019 role in it. Just this week, we learned that an illegal alien and Islamic extremist who killed someone in Fairfax in 2019 fled the country after the local prosecutor, Steve Descano, helped him get a foreign passport.<\/p>

Some Virginia residents have wondered: How can Fairfax residents keep voting for this? There are multiple reasons, but one is that they genuinely don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening.<\/p>

Virginians elected Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, for governor just months ago. On her first day in office, she signed an executive order ending cooperation between Virginia\u2019s prisons and ICE. This has been the focus of a high-profile dispute every time one of these murders occurs, with Spanberger refusing to agree to turn the murderer over for deportation after his sentence.<\/p>

Yet when the area\u2019s congressman, Don Beyer, was asked about this horrific case, he didn\u2019t defend the Democrat line \u2014 he pretended it wasn\u2019t happening. \u201cMy understanding of the law is anyone who\u2019s committed a serious felony is turned over to ICE,\u201d he said.<\/p>

If Democrats want to run on a policy that illegal immigrants should be able to enter the country at will, and be helped to stay even after they kill someone, that\u2019s their right. But doing it while hiding it, and the effects, shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>

Hyperlocal social media is a promising idea, but Nextdoor has bungled the chance for billions of dollars as badly as Virginia\u2019s politicians bungled the chance to save four people\u2019s lives this year. Nextdoor\u2019s message that at least half of actual Americans aren\u2019t welcome as customers might explain why it is losing millions of dollars. <\/span><\/p>

The site didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>

Ironically, people in our sleepy corner of Fairfax County will be better informed by The Daily Wire, a Nashville-based publication, than by one that\u2019s supposedly hyper-local. Here\u2019s the truth about every alleged murderer in Fairfax this year:<\/p>