Biden's Border Patrol waved a Guinean migrant into America in December 2023.
New York police arrested that same man in June for abusing a child.
He turned up months later behind the wheel of a Maryland rideshare car.
A Second Arrest for a Nearly Identical Crime
Abdoulaye Dia crossed the border illegally at Lukeville, Arizona, on December 21, 2023.
Border Patrol released him into the country under Biden administration policy, according to DHS.
On June 10, 2026, the NYPD arrested Dia on charges of sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, forcible touching, injuring a child under 17, and sexual abuse without consent.
Somehow, three months later, Dia was still driving passengers for the rideshare app Empower in Montgomery County, Maryland.
On September 17, police say Dia picked up an underage girl as a passenger and drove her to a parking lot in Silver Spring.
He is now charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault, and third-degree sex offense.
Detectives say there may be more victims.
Empower told reporters its background check on Dia, run in July, turned up nothing.
A background check cannot catch what ICE was never allowed to hold onto in the first place.
Montgomery County Already Learned This Lesson Once
This is not new territory for Montgomery County.
County Executive Marc Elrich signed the "Promoting Community Trust Executive Order" in July 2019, barring ICE agents from county jails and blocking local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
Within one month of that order taking effect, at least nine illegal immigrants in the county were charged with rape or sexual assault.
One of those nine was Emilio Carrasco-Hernandez, a Honduran national already deported once in 2017 who came back and was charged with raping his 15-year-old stepdaughter.
Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins did not blame bad luck for the wave of cases next door.
He said sanctuary policies mean offenders "won't feel the consequence" and get "released back on the streets, to potentially commit more crimes."
The backlash forced Elrich to walk part of the policy back.
An ICE official put the stakes plainly at the time: cooperation with local law enforcement is "an indispensable component of promoting public safety," and turning away detainer requests "undermines ICE's ability to protect public safety."
Jail custody, the official noted, is a far safer place to take a criminal into custody than a residence or a workplace confrontation.
Seven years later, a Guinean national with an open child sex abuse case in New York was still free to shuttle teenage passengers around that same county.
The Gap Nobody Closed
Dia's New York arrest should have been the end of the story.
Instead, whatever happened after June 10 left him free enough, unmonitored enough, and undetained enough to be driving a rideshare car with access to teenage passengers three months later.
Empower's background check missed it because the check ran in mid-July, and a check is only as good as the records it's allowed to see.
The Biden administration set this in motion the day it released Dia at the border instead of putting him into removal proceedings.
Every agency that had a chance to stop him after that, from Border Patrol in Arizona to whatever process handled his New York case, let him keep moving.
Montgomery County already watched this exact failure play out once, with a sheriff two counties over publicly warning that sanctuary rules would keep producing repeat offenders.
Nobody in Annapolis or Washington changed course after that warning, and seven years later the same county is running the math again with a new name and a new victim.
A Maryland teenager paid for every one of those decisions.
Sources:
- Fox News, "Illegal Immigrant Rideshare Driver Charged With Rape in Maryland Had Prior NYC Sex Abuse Arrest: DHS," Fox News, September 18, 2026.
- Fox News, "Maryland Sanctuary County Rolls Back Anti-ICE Policy After Multiple Illegal Immigrants Are Accused of Rape," Fox News.
- Ward Clark, "Illegal Alien Freed by Biden in 2023 Accused of Attack on Maryland Teen," RedState, September 21, 2026.
- Montgomery County, Maryland, "Rideshare Driver Charged With Rape and Kidnapping; Detectives Seek Additional Victims," Montgomery County Government, September 2026.
- Fox News, "Seventh Illegal Immigrant Accused of Sex Crimes in Maryland County Since July 25," Fox News.
- Fox News, "County Sheriff Blasts Immigration Policies in Maryland County After Sexual Assault Accusation by Illegal Immigrant," Fox News.
