Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has taken a mixed approach to bills from Fairfax state Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim (D-37) intended to counter the Trump administration’s draconian approach to immigration enforcement.
The governor announced today (Wednesday) that she has signed SB 352 and its House of Delegates companion HB 1482, which ban law enforcement officers from covering their faces, while vetoing legislation (SB 351 and HB 650) that would restrict federal immigration agents from conducting civil arrests in certain public places, including courthouses, schools and health care facilities.
The legislative actions were accompanied by an executive order directing state agencies to prohibit the federal government from accessing state property or using it as a staging site for civil immigration enforcement unless officers have a “valid warrant or order.”
The state government must also develop guidance for local prosecutors, hospitals, schools and elections workers for handling interactions with federal immigration officers. A website will be established “to help Virginians understand their rights and report alleged legally prohibited practices by federal agents.”
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The governor presented her executive order directing state entities to develop protocols for handling encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal immigration agencies as an alternative to the bills restricting civil arrests in courthouses and other facilities passed by the General Assembly.
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At a reconvened session last month, the General Assembly rejected amendments proposed by Spanberger to both the masking and civil arrests bills that Salim said would’ve rendered them “toothless.”
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