Unlawful immigration was one of many prime 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 beneath the present administration that crossing the border illegally is taken into account a legal act.
Maybe that’s as a result of it’s a violation of federal immigration legislation. What’s it about this primary indisputable fact that Democrats can’t appear to know?
Watch:
WATCH: Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger says it is “horrifying” that crossing the border illegally is “thought of a legal act.” pic.twitter.com/Z0CTokgH4d
— Steve Visitor (@SteveGuest) October 17, 2025
That is clearly one of many the explanation why the governor race in Virginia is now essentially tied. If elected, Spanberger goes to go proper again to Democrat enterprise as ordinary. She needs to disregard the mandate of the 2024 election.
She has already vowed to undo a lot of the work accomplished on this situation 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 in all her first acts if elected can be to undo Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s February directive requiring Virginia legislation enforcement to assist perform federal immigration crackdowns — a coverage she argues wastes native assets and undermines group belief.
“I’d rescind his government order, sure,” Spanberger informed The Mercury in a prolonged coverage interview earlier this month, referring to Youngkin’s Government Order 47 issued in February. The order gave state police and corrections officers authority to carry out sure immigration duties and likewise urged native jails to totally cooperate with federal deportation operations.
The governor stated on the time the measure was meant to maintain “harmful legal unlawful immigrants” off Virginia’s streets. Spanberger countered that Youngkin’s strategy illustrates how immigration enforcement can pull native companies away from their core tasks whereas pushing state companies into federal civil enforcement.
“Our immigration system is totally damaged,” she stated. “The concept we’d take native cops or native sheriff’s deputies in amid all of the issues that they need to do, like group policing or staffing our jails or investigating actual crimes, in order that they’ll go and tear households aside … that may be a misuse of these assets.”
If individuals in Virginia nonetheless care concerning the situation of unlawful immigration, the selection in November is fairly clear.
