CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed incoming Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to Monday’s taping of The Late Show to discuss how she might react if the Trump administration sent ICE agents or National Guard soldiers to Virginia. Both argued that what the administration is currently doing in places like Minneapolis is simply trying to "instill” or “sow fear.”
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Colbert then wondered about two hypotheticals, “Just take these two scenarios. National Guard troops are sent in from another state, say Texas to Virginia. Or ICE was sent in at this level of force and seemingly for—just to harass and to instill fear. What responses can you have as a governor within Virginia law that is not superseded by federal law to actually protect the citizens of your state or the residents of your state?”
After declaring that she will be in charge of the Virginia National Guard, Spanberger echoed Colbert’s anti-ICE sentiments, “I will make known to the Trump administration that we do not want—we do not want them trying to sow fear, to sow division within our communities. And if there is a warrant, absolutely. If there is a warrant for someone's arrest, there’s room for coordination between law enforcement agencies. But what we have seen in places like Minnesota, it is not meeting any end goal of making us safer.”
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. Craig Millward
