Unlawful immigration was one of many high problems with the 2024 election, however Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat working for governor of Virginia doesn’t appear to understand that.
In a video circulating on social media, Spanberger says that it’s ‘horrifying’ that below the present administration that crossing the border illegally is taken into account a prison act.
Maybe that’s as a result of it’s a violation of federal immigration regulation. What’s it about this fundamental indisputable fact that Democrats can not appear to understand?
Watch:
WATCH: Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger says it is “horrifying” that crossing the border illegally is “thought-about a prison act.” pic.twitter.com/Z0CTokgH4d
— Steve Visitor (@SteveGuest) October 17, 2025
That is clearly one of many the reason why the governor race in Virginia is now essentially tied. If elected, Spanberger goes to go proper again to Democrat enterprise as traditional. She desires to disregard the mandate of the 2024 election.
She has already vowed to undo a lot of the work carried out on this concern by the present Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.
The Virginia Mercury reported in August:
Spanberger vows to scrap Youngkin’s immigration order if elected governor
Democratic nominee for governor Abigail Spanberger says one among her first acts if elected could be to undo Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s February directive requiring Virginia regulation enforcement to assist perform federal immigration crackdowns — a coverage she argues wastes native sources and undermines group belief.
“I might rescind his government order, sure,” Spanberger instructed The Mercury in a prolonged coverage interview earlier this month, referring to Youngkin’s Govt Order 47 issued in February. The order gave state police and corrections officers authority to carry out sure immigration duties and in addition urged native jails to totally cooperate with federal deportation operations.
The governor stated on the time the measure was meant to maintain “harmful prison unlawful immigrants” off Virginia’s streets. Spanberger countered that Youngkin’s strategy illustrates how immigration enforcement can pull native businesses away from their core tasks whereas pushing state businesses into federal civil enforcement.
“Our immigration system is completely damaged,” she stated. “The concept that we’d take native law enforcement officials or native sheriff’s deputies in amid all of the issues that they should do, like group policing or staffing our jails or investigating actual crimes, in order that they’ll go and tear households aside … that could be a misuse of these sources.”
If individuals in Virginia nonetheless care in regards to the concern of unlawful immigration, the selection in November is fairly clear.
