House Judiciary Committee Opens Investigation Into Arlington County Prosecutor

The House Committee on the Judiciary opened an investigation into the Arlington County Commonwealth’s attorney on May 5, 2026. The committee sent a notice to Parisa Dehghani-Tafti stating it would conduct oversight regarding her office's alleged refusal to cooperate with federal immigration officials and its prioritization of illegal and criminal aliens over American citizens.

The letter requested information from the office on its sanctuary policies, which the committee said endanger the communities served. It also outlined concerns that the office had routinely undermined the rule of law under the guise of safeguarding the public.

This included policies that protected undocumented Dreamers and framed resolutions to avoid deportation. The committee stated that the office appeared to have weaponized its authority to give preferential treatment to aliens based solely on their immigration status.

It cited a prior commitment to take immigration status into consideration when making charging decisions on minor infractions so aliens can avoid collateral consequences. The office had also trained its employees on the effects of criminal prosecution on immigration status.

Dehghani-Tafti began her first term in 2017 and secured a second term that will end in 2027. During her first election she received more than $515,000 in donations from The Justice and Public Safety PAC funded by George Soros. She received an additional $295,000 from the same PAC for her second term.

Her official biography states that she aims for both safety and justice with the primary responsibility to treat crime as crime and people as people. The biography adds that her office is committed to highlighting, addressing and reversing the legal system’s disproportionate impact on people of color by turning values into policies.

The committee detailed the case of Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, who was offered a plea deal after he allegedly assaulted a group of juveniles and stole an officer’s stun gun in 2025. Months later, after his release, Garcia Moran was charged with the abduction of a person with intent to defile, sodomy by force or victim helplessness, and assault in an alleged attempted rape.

A probation officer had warned before the plea deal that Garcia Moran was likely to resume such actions and would pose a danger to self and others, but the warning was ignored according to the committee. The committee had previously subpoenaed Dehghani-Tafti in March regarding an unrelated matter involving threats against a White House official and his family.

Dehghani-Tafti joins the neighboring Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney who is being investigated by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for similar reasons involving treatment of illegal immigrants. Parisa Dehghani-Tafti’s office did not respond to a request for comment.