Spanberger rescinded a Youngkin EO that urged sheriffs to deputize themselves to ICE by signing "287(g)" agreements. Casey had already refused to sign one of those agreements. She had said back in August that she would do this: https://virginiamercury.com/2025/08/27/spanberger-vows-to-scrap-youngkins-immigration-order-if-elected-governor/. That article is actually really interesting -- she's essentially saying she thinks sheriffs should insist on judicial warrants before they hand over inmates. Here's the relevant section:
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"Spanberger, who represented Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in Congress before launching her gubernatorial bid, argued that immigration enforcement should be handled by federal officials with judicial oversight, not by local police diverted from their own duties.
She said Democrats are often wrongly portrayed as opposing law enforcement when they object to policies like Youngkin’s that conscript local agencies into immigration sweeps.
“If someone has a criminal violation at the state level or at the federal level … local resources are required to arrest that person or put them in a local jail before transferring them to federal custody. Absolutely the locality should participate in that,” she said.
But Spanberger insisted the standard should be the same for immigration cases as for any other criminal matter.
“They have to have a warrant to pick somebody up off the street, so they meet that same standard,” she said. “And they can easily go get that detention order signed by a judge or a magistrate, if they want that local support.”
Without those safeguards, Spanberger argued, local cooperation with ICE undermines community policing, creates constitutional concerns and strains already tight budgets. She pointed to her former district of Prince William County, which she said spent more than $1 million housing detainees under a prior partnership with federal immigration authorities."
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Thanks for your question -- this was a happy discovery!
ICE is doing the job of evicting unwanted criminals and other offenders. Had the Democrats NOT left the border open and other entries unattended the Expensive actions now would not be needed.
We are a land of laws or NOT! The woman in Minneapolis should have obeyed the instruction of the police and NOT blocked the road-which is unlawful. harassing law enforcement and stalking is also unlawful along with running down an officer!
So I wonder how the new executive order signed by Spanberger will effect Casey, if at all.
Spanberger rescinded a Youngkin EO that urged sheriffs to deputize themselves to ICE by signing "287(g)" agreements. Casey had already refused to sign one of those agreements. She had said back in August that she would do this: https://virginiamercury.com/2025/08/27/spanberger-vows-to-scrap-youngkins-immigration-order-if-elected-governor/. That article is actually really interesting -- she's essentially saying she thinks sheriffs should insist on judicial warrants before they hand over inmates. Here's the relevant section:
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"Spanberger, who represented Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in Congress before launching her gubernatorial bid, argued that immigration enforcement should be handled by federal officials with judicial oversight, not by local police diverted from their own duties.
She said Democrats are often wrongly portrayed as opposing law enforcement when they object to policies like Youngkin’s that conscript local agencies into immigration sweeps.
“If someone has a criminal violation at the state level or at the federal level … local resources are required to arrest that person or put them in a local jail before transferring them to federal custody. Absolutely the locality should participate in that,” she said.
But Spanberger insisted the standard should be the same for immigration cases as for any other criminal matter.
“They have to have a warrant to pick somebody up off the street, so they meet that same standard,” she said. “And they can easily go get that detention order signed by a judge or a magistrate, if they want that local support.”
Without those safeguards, Spanberger argued, local cooperation with ICE undermines community policing, creates constitutional concerns and strains already tight budgets. She pointed to her former district of Prince William County, which she said spent more than $1 million housing detainees under a prior partnership with federal immigration authorities."
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Thanks for your question -- this was a happy discovery!
Jamie
ICE is doing the job of evicting unwanted criminals and other offenders. Had the Democrats NOT left the border open and other entries unattended the Expensive actions now would not be needed.
We are a land of laws or NOT! The woman in Minneapolis should have obeyed the instruction of the police and NOT blocked the road-which is unlawful. harassing law enforcement and stalking is also unlawful along with running down an officer!