Virginia Democrats sharpen focus on ICE limits after Spanberger’s State of the Union rebuttal

By: Markus Schmidt

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: February 26, 2026

Words: 1,339

Last Updated: 2 weeks ago

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Virginia Democrats were already advancing legislation to curb state cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when President Donald Trump took the podium Tuesday night to tout record deportations and declare the border “secure.”

But his State of the Union address, and Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s pointed rebuttal, have now cast those state-level efforts in sharper relief.

In her nationally televised response, Spanberger accused the president of sending “poorly trained federal …

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