On December 21, 2023, Border Patrol agents at Lukeville, Arizona caught Abdoulaye Dia crossing the border illegally from Guinea. They processed him. They had him in custody. The Department of Homeland Security under the Biden administration released him into the country.

He's now charged with kidnapping and raping an underage girl during a rideshare trip in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Fox News Congressional Correspondent Bill Melugin broke the details: the man charged with "kidnapping & raping an underage girl during a ride is an illegal alien from the African country of Guinea who was caught & released at the AZ border by the Biden admin in 2023." Caught. And released. Those two words sit next to each other in the same sentence because that was the policy.

This wasn't Dia's first arrest since Biden's DHS released him onto America's unsuspecting streets. On June 10, 2026, the NYPD arrested him in New York City on charges including sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, forcible touching of sexual and intimate parts, injury to a child less than 17, and sexual abuse without consent. Those are the exact charges as listed by police — not a summary, not a paraphrase. Every one of those charges describes a crime against a person who couldn't defend herself.

He was arrested by the NYPD in June. He was out again. Then came the Montgomery County charges — kidnapping and rape of a minor, committed during a ride on the Empower rideshare platform, which itself has a pending case for failure to monitor criminal and driving records of its drivers.

As one commenter flagged on social media: "Ask yourself how an illegal immigrant who has no right to be here can be arrested in NYC in June for sexually assaulting a minor" and still be on the street months later to commit a kidnapping. That's not a rhetorical question. There's an answer, and the answer is that the system — from the border to the booking desk — treated his presence in this country as someone else's problem at every single step.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has spent considerable energy defending the rights of illegal aliens in removal proceedings — most visibly around the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has issued pardons to shield convicted felons from deportation. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made sanctuary policy a centerpiece of his administration. These are the elected officials who built the environment Abdoulaye Dia moved through without friction.

Every policy choice in that chain had a name attached to it. The catch-and-release at the border. The sanctuary jurisdiction that declined to hold him. The system that let a man with active sexual abuse charges walk out and drive strangers around for a living.

A girl got into a car. The driver had been in federal custody twenty months earlier and in NYPD custody three months earlier. Both times, the door opened and he walked out.

December 21, 2023. June 10, 2026. September 2026. Three dates, three chances, one outcome.