Blue-state governors are doing everything they can to keep the Biden immigration crime wave alive — and will keep it up until their voters make them stop. 

The latest atrocity: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger failed to intervene to prevent the release of Jose Hernandez, an illegal from El Salvador arrested in March for molesting and abusing a 5-year-old girl then remanded on a measly $5,000 bond.

Monsters that sick never stop at one victim; such low bail almost ensures Hernandez  will vanish once he hits the streets, free to rape more children. 

That’s how it goes in sanctuary jurisdictions like Virginia: The safety of law-abiding folks comes last, the “rights” (privileges!) of illegal immigrants come first.  

Spanberger insists hers is not a sanctuary state, but her policies are explicitly meant to protect illegals.

She ended Virginia’s 287(g) agreements, which ease co-operation of local law enforcement with ICE; she’s refused to veto bills to prohibit ICE from making arrests at courthouses; she’s into law a ban on ICE agents masking up — a move that lets lefty fanatics target them and their families.

And she claims to be a moderate.

So too does New York’s own Gov. Kathy Hochul — who recently pushed through what may be the most radical anti-enforcement law in the country, barring even informal co-operation between local cops and ICE and banning ICE agents from wearing masks and from entering public parks.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California issues commercial driver licenses to untrained and often non-English speaking illegals, who then cause horrific death and destruction by smashing trucks into passenger cars — as Biden-released Manvir Singh did in late May, the fourth illegal-immigrant truck driver with the last name “Singh” accused in a fatal crash since last year.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s allergy to locking up illegal criminals left Jose Medina-Medina free to murder New York-born college student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago in March: The Venezuelan illegal waved in under Biden got busted for shoplifting but let loose (lest ICE deport him) thanks to “sanctuary” protections.

It’s all part of Trump Derangement Syndrome: The prez wants illegal migrants deported, so Democrats work to keep them here and also demonize ICE, the main tool for that work.

He’s especially eager to expel those who commit new crimes, so Dems create extra protections for them — even though the public overwhelmingly wants them gone.

This is the exact same lunacy that led the Biden administration to give up on virtually all border enforcement as soon as took office in 2021 — a step Joe knew was nuts, but which his staff insisted was a core demand of the party’s base.

Anger at open borders was key to President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2024, and this new madness will surely bring its own voter backlash, at least in purplish states like Virginia.

Republicans in Congress should be courting that blowback now, with floor votes on Delilah’s Law — to bar states from issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants — in the runup to the November elections.

But drastic action, such as Homeland Security chief Markwayne Mullin’s threat to cripple sanctuary-city airports, will only invite backlash in the opposite direction, just as did his predecessor Kirsti Noem’s Minneapolis misadventure.

Blue-state immigration insanity is taking lives all across the country, but brute federal force won’t work: It’s going to require the slow slog of political persuasion.