CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed incoming Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to Monday’s taping of The Late Show to discuss how she might react if the Trump administration sent ICE agents or National Guard soldiers to Virginia. Both argued that what the administration is currently doing in places like Minneapolis is simply trying to "instill” or “sow fear.”
Colbert began by hailing a lawsuit that should go nowhere, “Governors have recently across the United States, have been put in a sort of, untenable situation having their states invaded by their own federal government, you know, against their wishes, sending National Guard troops from other states when they weren't asked to do so. Minnesota and Illinois, and we just found this out. This is actually right before I came out here, it was announced that Minnesota and Illinois have announced that they are suing the Trump administration over—Illinois already won over the National Guard. Now they are suing over ICE being sent in. What's your reaction to what's happening?”
The idea that the federal government would have no-go parts of the country where it can’t enforce federal law seems like an obvious non-starter. As for Spanberger, she began her response by repeating some autobiographical details in an attempt to give credence to Colbert’s anti-ICE disposition, “I worked on task forces with local, state, and federal police, and what I learned every single day in law enforcement is your ability to do your job is built on trust and what we are seeing day in and day out when people are going in, wearing masks, terrifying communities, is that they are breaking down that trust, and it is actually impeding the ability to keep our communities safe, to enforce the law.”
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. Craig Millward
