Democrat governor nominee wants to turn Virginia into sanctuary state for illegals | Eastern North Carolina Now

If Democrats have their way, North Carolina may be getting a sanctuary state on our northern border.  Abigail Spanberger, Democrat nominee for governor of Virginia in this year's election, has said that she intends to revoke outgoing  Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin's executive order that directs law enforcement to cooperate with ICE on apprehension of illegal aliens for deportation.  She would adopt a new policy of refusing to cooperate with ICE which would be like that now in place in California.

This comes in spite of Virginia, particularly its northern part, being heavily infested with the very violent El Salvador illegal alien crime gang MS13, whose crime wave represents offenses from drug dealing to murder.  The violent Venezuelan illegal alien crime gang Tren de Aragua also has a presence in the state. 

Governor Youngkin is term limited.  The Republican nominee for Governor, current Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who is herself a legal immigrant as well as a veteran of the US Marines, strongly supports Youngkin's immigration policies.

A recent racist attack on Earle-Sears, who would be America's first black woman governor if elected, by some white "transgender" supporters recently led a major Democrat contributor, Robert Johnson, who is also America's only black billionaire, to send Sears a half million dollar contribution.

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/08/29/spanberger-will-effectively-turn-virginia-into-a-sanctuary-state-if-elected-n2193384

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3787365/abigail-spanberger-soft-on-crime-weak-on-immigration/

https://winsomeforgovernor.com/