Posted on 05/18/2025 4:02:47 AM PDT by Libloather
FIRST ON FOX: Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger is facing pushback from both her opponent and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after condemning the "shocking" execution of an ICE raid at a Virginia courthouse earlier this month that netted two criminal illegal immigrants.
"I think what we’ve seen most shocking, including here in Charlottesville, has been cases where people haven’t provided identification and have been in some cases masked and in plain clothes," Spanberger, a former Democratic congresswoman and former intelligence officer, told the Daily Progress last month after an ICE raid at Albemarle County Courthouse led to the arrest of two illegal immigrants.
"I’m a former federal agent, and I used to work narcotics cases and money laundering cases," she said. "I have been on so many arrest warrants and search warrants at the crack of dawn and at all hours of the day, and identifying yourself, demonstrating who you are, making clear to a community member — even someone you are about to put handcuffs on, even when you enter a home, in a stack, lined up, guns drawn, yelling, ‘Police!’ — you show your badge, you show your credentials, you show your warrant."
The raid that Spanberger took issue with resulted in the arrest of two illegal immigrants who DHS told Fox News Digital had criminal records.
Teodoro Dominguez-Rodriguez, a Honduran national, was described by DHS as a "violent illegal alien" with "multiple arrests for assault and battery as well as an outstanding order of protection against him."
Pablo Aparicio Marcelino, a Mexican national, was also described by DHS as a "criminal illegal alien" with "multiple arrests for failing to stop at the scene of an accident, driving without a license, and driving under the influence."
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Yes, born in New Jersey.
The Republican candidate in black from Jamaica, so neither candidate was born in Virginia or the South. It is a long way from the Byrd Machine, when all the candidates had to have all their family from Virginia and be of the right background.
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