Youngkin says over 500 criminal illegal immigrants arrested

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:he has been the governor for a few years. What was he waiting for? If they are criminals.

You didn't read the announcement in the OP?

The Virginia Homeland Security Task Force operation started on February 25th. On February 27th Governor Youngkin signed EO #47 that was linked in the post you replied to. He "waited" until the newly created combined federal and state task force became operational to sign an EO that allowed for cooperation between state law enforcement and federal law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

I assume they are "criminal" because they entered the country illegally. This is what this seems to mean these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what leadership looks like. Virginians are safer now because of this.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/february/name-1041944-en.html

This is what a lying governor looks like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume they are "criminal" because they entered the country illegally. This is what this seems to mean these days.

Or have tattoos...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone believe him?

+1 he's a trumpet so he has no credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what leadership looks like. Virginians are safer now because of this.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/february/name-1041944-en.html

he has been the governor for a few years. What was he waiting for? If they are criminals.

yup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:he has been the governor for a few years. What was he waiting for? If they are criminals.

You didn't read the announcement in the OP?

The Virginia Homeland Security Task Force operation started on February 25th. On February 27th Governor Youngkin signed EO #47 that was linked in the post you replied to. He "waited" until the newly created combined federal and state task force became operational to sign an EO that allowed for cooperation between state law enforcement and federal law enforcement.

Please. You don’t need to establish a task force to arrest criminals. Think for a second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Criminal illegal immigrants? So we have known about them and just ignored them? Or were they serving time? Or have they been convicted of having tattoos and wearing hats? How can we know?

They were identified and arrested by a combined federal and state task force.

If it's anything like the previous task forces led by Kristi Noem, all this means is that they are Venezuelan and have tattoos.

I am so heartbroken for this country. What a horror show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume they are "criminal" because they entered the country illegally. This is what this seems to mean these days.

Or not at all. Many of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT came legally, never broke the law in Venezuela or here, and were pending and asylum hearing . These completely innocent men are nevertheless referred to as "illegal" by the likes of Kristi Noem, Marco Rubio, JD Vance and the rest.

I have lost all faith in them. I don't believe ANYTHING they say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please. You don’t need to establish a task force to arrest criminals. Think for a second.

Why would you think they weren't arresting criminals before the task force was created? The combined resources of the federal and state law enforcement entities are a force multiplier.

If you want know about VA arrests before the task force spin up that information is readily available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please. You don’t need to establish a task force to arrest criminals. Think for a second.

Why would you think they weren't arresting criminals before the task force was created? The combined resources of the federal and state law enforcement entities are a force multiplier.

If you want know about VA arrests before the task force spin up that information is readily available.

If that’s the case, please share them. Provide the link. Because I think Youngkin is a one term opportunist who will never, unseat Kaine or Warner and has to do something after the beginning of 2026– and thus had Speedo incentive in a moderate state to go after immigrants until he discovered his best option was hitching his incredibly mediocre star to Trump. Which for a guy in a fleece jacket from NOVA who insisted he was a moderates moderate is a dumb move, but maybe the best of the bad options he has. Kinda hope if he ends up in jail like so many of Trumps cronies do (Just kidding— he and his fleece wouldn’t last 8 seconds in jail).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what leadership looks like. Virginians are safer now because of this.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/february/name-1041944-en.html

he has been the governor for a few years. What was he waiting for? If they are criminals.

Because Biden and (using Trump voice) Kaeh-muluh, would have sicced their judges and lawyers upon him, negating every attempt to do the right thing.

Elections do matter. Virginia just got made a little greater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Virginia resident, I’m glad to hear that so many criminals are off our streets. However, I hope that more stringent standards were used to determine their criminality than have been used to date by the Trump administration.

Eh, Trump ran on fears of an invasion of hordes of rapists and criminals and once president, could not find all these dangerous criminals or decided it was much easier to just arrest undocumented immigrants, slap the “they are MS-13 leaders” label on them and deport them in chains to El Salvador for broadcasting on FoxNews.

I am concerned Younking is just doing the same. He has been governor for years and VA police could for sure arrest violent gang members who commit murders, traffic people and drugs and so on. These are all state crimes and he certainly did no need the federa gov for this. Why did he leave these people in the streets of Virginia all these years doing nothing? Maybe because they are not criminals after all, hust undocumented immigrants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what leadership looks like. Virginians are safer now because of this.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/february/name-1041944-en.html

he has been the governor for a few years. What was he waiting for? If they are criminals.

Because Biden and (using Trump voice) Kaeh-muluh, would have sicced their judges and lawyers upon him, negating every attempt to do the right thing.

Elections do matter. Virginia just got made a little greater.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda. First you say the numbers say he was arresting illegal immigrants. Now you say he didn’t, but it’s Biden’s fault. Which is it? And please link to your proof.

Also, plenty of other states managed to arrest illegal immigrants under Biden. DeSantis was arresting them and flying them to blue states FFS. He chose not to. Probably wise in a generally blue state when he didn’t have the legislature and only won because of closed schools and McAwful brushing off upset parents. But still— not Biden’s fault.

Question. At what point to Republicans own their decisions and stop blaming Biden. Or Obama, nine years later? Personal responsibility anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If that’s the case, please share them. Provide the link.

ICE has a website. They post arrests and deportations there. You could also check @ICEgov on X.

I don't know how many people realize that if someone has previously been removed from the United States and then illegally returns that they have committed a federal crime. They are criminals. They will be automatically deported if they come into contact with law enforcement. In fact law enforcement targets them for deportation when they become aware of their return.