Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued detainers for six suspected MS-13 gang members involved in murders in Northern Virginia.

Detainers have been filed on Cindy Blanco Hernandez, Wilmer A. Sanchez-Serrano, Aldair J. Miranda Carcamo, and Jose Castillo Rivas, ages 18-21, who were charged for the January murder of 15-year-old Damaris Reyes Rivas, whose body was found in Fairfax County, Virginia.

“This problem is horrible.”

Detainers were also filed for Edgar Oswlado Torres and Jose Martir Larios Espenal, who were charged with the murder of Christian Sosa Rivas, also in January, in Prince William County, Virginia.

The detainers follow the discovery of two more bodies of suspected MS-13 victims in Fairfax County on Friday, the latest in a recent spate of suspected MS-13 killings in the region.

“This problem is horrible,” Fairfax County Police Chief Ed Roessler said. “This is four murders in this park. Obviously, we’ve had other murders in the region in the past few weeks. This is getting out of control, and we need to stop it,” Roessler continued.

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“I think there is a great amount of activity that we are worried about,” Timothy Slater, the FBI special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C. field office, told The Washington Times. “We are looking at avenues and ways, especially with this investigation, to have a larger impact on that.”

The detainers would indicate that ICE is equally concerned about MS-13 activity in the area, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s January order prioritizing immigration enforcement for illegal aliens convicted of crimes and anyone who poses a threat to “public safety or national security.”

ICE seems dedicated to fulfilling that mission. On Feb. 21, ICE arrested a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic, Hector Suarez, after New York authorities ignored a detainer request and released Suarez in December 2016.

“This is the case of another criminal alien, a felon, who was released back into the streets. Politics and rhetoric are not what keep the people of this great city safe,” said Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations New York.

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“ICE is committed to maintaining and strengthening its relationship with local law enforcement. We also welcome changes to the city’s present detainer policies in the interest of public safety and national security,” Decker said.

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Trump’s January executive order, which also relaunched the “Secure Communities” program that Obama ended in 2014, is key to ICE’s ability to go after criminal illegal aliens. The program allows ICE automatic access to local, state, and federal law enforcement fingerprint databases.

“All fingerprints local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies submit to the FBI are now automatically passed along to ICE,” explained a February report by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. “ICE checks these against its records to see if the individual may be deportable,” it continued.

The detainers for the MS-13 members also follow the arrest of 13 MS-13 gang members on Long Island last week, 10 of whom are in the country illegally, as well as the arrest of two MS-13 members in Houston, Texas, for a “satanic” murder.