Spanberger’s Californication of Virginia

California has the highest energy and housing costs in the continental United States, the nation’s highest unemployment and poverty rates, and multibillion-dollar deficits as far as the state’s legislative analyst office can see. But Abigail Spanberger, who has just been sworn in as the new governor of Virginia, has apparently seen these results and has decided she wants to inflict on her state exactly what California has suffered under Democratic management. 

On her first day in office, Spanberger made Virginia a sanctuary state, like California, by chucking out former-Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that directed state and local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officials. Instead of detaining illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes so Immigration and Customs Enforcement can deport them in