RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia immigration advocates have responded to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent executive order directing state police and corrections officers to participate in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts.
“There’s going to be a bunch of bad things happening, coming from this executive order,” said Christian Martinez Lemus, research and policy analyst for CASA Virginia, an immigration advocacy group. “We’re asking the governor to have a better change of heart.”
Under Executive Order 47 , Virginia State Police (VSP) will enter an agreement with ICE to create a task force of federally deputized state troopers. Those troopers will then assist ICE in the identification and apprehension of “dangerous criminal illegal immigrants.”…