Spanberger takes fire from all sides as Youngkin, Angel parent slams recent controversies

By Fox News · Fox News

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger faced dueling controversies this week as her Republican predecessor publicly rebuked her over support for Democrats’ redistricting amendment, and an Angel Mom challenged her on immigration enforcement. Virginia has been ground zero for Democrats’ left-wing agenda since the former Henrico County congresswoman took office in January, from reversing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s cooperation pact with DHS to supporting legislative Democrats’ alleged "power grab" to draw out every Republican congressman in the Commonwealth except Rep. Morgan Griffith in the far southwest. During a visit to Culpeper, a largely but increasingly less rural population center between Front Royal and Richmond, Spanberger was pressed on her relative silence on the case of Stephanie Minter, a Fredericksburg mother allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant convict at a Fairfax County bus stop last month. As she was escorted to her car by security after an affordable housing event , local ABC reporter Nick Minock shouted a question about what her message would be to Minter’s family and others harmed by illegal immigrant felons. POLICE WARNED PROSECUTORS 3 TIMES ABOUT VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BEFORE HE ALLEGEDLY KILLED VIRGINIA MOTHER "My question would be why when there was a [unintelligible word] deportation order, ICE did not deport," she said as she was hastened into the car. "ICE had him in custody for 700 days governor and an immigration judge would not allow him be deported to Sierra Leone," Minock attempted to respond as the car door shut. Minock said Minter’s mother, Cheryl, who headlined a vigil for her daughter in front of Spanberger’s office at the Capitol earlier this week, told him that ICE had been doing what they were supposed to under current law and that "Spanberger needs to check her story because it’s inaccurate and misleading." That exchange came as Culpeper became the center of another case involving an illegal immigrant accused of heinous crimes, t…