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vice president JD Vance He was confronted at a Turning Point USA event on Wednesday night as he called for a slowdown in legal immigration.
talking to students at university mississippi On immigration, Vance said, “We have to get the overall numbers down significantly.”
Although Vance did not specify the exact number of legal immigrants he believes should be admitted to the US, he said it is “much less than what we are admitting.”
A woman in the audience questioned Vance about his stance on legal immigration.
“And when you talk about a lot of immigrants here, when did you guys decide on this number? Why did you sell us a dream?” The woman asked.
“How can you, as vice president, stand up there and say ‘We have too many of them now, and we’re going to take them out’ to the people who are here the right way, by giving the money that you guys asked us for? You gave us the way out and now how can you stop that and tell us we don’t belong here anymore?”
Vance then turned his attention to illegal immigration.
“I may believe that we should have lower immigration levels, but if the United States passed a law and made a promise to someone, the United States, of course, has to honor that promise. No one is talking about it.
Vance said, “I’m talking about people who came to the United States in violation of the laws of the United States. And I’m talking about reducing the number of people coming in the future.”
The Vice President later said: “We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago essentially binds the country to the future. There are a lot of people who want to come to the United States, and my job as Vice President is not to look after the interests of the whole world. It’s to look after the people of the United States.”
The Trump administration’s tough stance on illegal immigration has been front and center Federal agents are carrying out a mass deportation effort of President Donald Trump Through ICE raids across the country. But the Trump administration has also curbed legal immigration.
In August, the State Department reported BBC It had canceled more than 6,000 international student visas, claiming it was due to violations of US law and overstaying, which occurs when immigrants stay in the US longer than their visa permits. The department said the “vast majority” of alleged violations were assault, driving under the influence, theft and “support for terrorism.”
