Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin plays racist immigration politics with state budget

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is trying to give Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears an early Christmas present – a generated controversy over immigration to use in her 2025 gubernatorial campaign.

The Republican governor with no political future rolled out on Thursday what his office called a “no sanctuary cities” budget proposal that would withhold funding from localities that purport to be sanctuary cities, requiring local police to fully comply with the feds on immigration issues.

Doing what these people do, Youngkin, at a press conference on this on Thursday, hyped the arrest of a Honduran immigrant on rape charges in Fairfax County in November, blaming the county’s “sanctuary policies enabled that criminal to be released back on the streets without notifying ICE.”

“She was raped by an illegal immigrant who had a criminal history that extended so deep and so far back,” said Youngkin, ignoring the obvious with that particular story – the alleged perpetrator, Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, was released after serving half of a 50-day sentence on an indecent-exposure conviction because our jails are overcrowded, which isn’t an immigration problem.

Maybe, just maybe, we over-incarcerate?

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