Tom Homan says Spanberger pulled a bait and switch on VA voters—campaigning as a moderate now obstructing ICE

White House border czar Tom Homan has slammed Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger after she signed a slew of left-wing policies as she entered office, including one that made Virginia a sanctuary state.

"I’m a resident of Virginia and Spanberger — I remember her campaign ads. 'I’m a law enforcement officer. I rescued children from sex trafficking.' I’ve seen the commercials,” Homan said to John Ashbrook, a co-host of the “Ruthless” podcast.

“So, first day in office, she stops being a law enforcement officer and became a politician, because where’s all those commercials you did about supporting law enforcement and rescuing kids?” Homan added.

Spanberger reversed an order written by former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin that allowed for police in the state to coordinate with ICE agents to detain criminal illegal immigrants. The order from Spanberger, while it can’t eliminate the authority of ICE, limits local state agencies from “diverting limited resources” to help ICE arrest those in the country illegally.

Homan called out Spanberger for the apparent pivot, as she had campaigned as a moderate on law enforcement issues.

“First of all, this administration — we already found 130,000 of those missing kids. The last [presidential] administration wasn’t even looking for them. Many of these children were victims of sex trafficking and forced labor. We’re tearing apart these trafficking rings. We’re looking for these missing children. We’re arresting criminal aliens, many of them like just the last two weeks in Minnesota,” he added. “A lot of them were sexual predators of children. Child rape. Where’s she gone? I mean, she’s a different person than what she ran on.”

Homan said he still has hope that he can work with the Spanberger administration, but said that while it doesn’t look promising, he will work around it.

“Well, we’ll work around it,” he said. “We’re working around that in New York and, you know, California and Oregon and Illinois. These states are not friendly. They won’t work with ICE. So, it just means we’ve got to send more resources to those states because it makes our job harder,” he added.

In sanctuary states, when ICE does not have access to the information from jails and prisons regarding illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, they must go out and search for them. This is opposed to state police agencies that do work with ICE and honor detainers, meaning ICE can pick up illegal immigrants from jail when they are charged with crimes or they can be picked up after an illegal immigrant has finished a criminal sentence.

"If they work with us — I mean, one agent can arrest one illegal alien in a county jail,” he said. “Give us access to the person that you locked in a jail cell, and they’re in the country illegally. When you’re done, you give them to us. That’s the most efficient way to do it. But when you are knowingly going to release public safety threats in the community, now we’ve got to send a whole team out looking for them.”