New York.- Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance explained Donald Trump’s highly echoed proposal for mass deportations during the vice presidential debate from New York.
“First of all, before talking about deportations, we have to stop the bleeding,” he said in reference to the immigration crisis unleashed at the border that Republicans attribute to the management of current Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Kamala Harris said she wanted to reverse all of Trump’s policies, (…) that opened the doors to the surge, to all the fentanyl that is entering our country.” The candidate said that there are “between 20 and 25 million illegal migrants in the United States,” a number that according to AP News is an inflated figure.
When asked by the moderators, Vance explained three points about how a mass deportation policy would work.
“The first thing to do is start with criminal migrants. Nearly a million illegal migrants have committed crimes, in addition to crossing the border. We start by deporting them,” Vance explained. “And then we have to make it more difficult for migrants to take or cut wages from Americans. Many people will go home if they can’t work more than the minimum wage. That will be very good for our workers too.” Finally, on whether he would separate families of migrants detained at the border, Vance once again criticized Harris’ policies and the Department of Security. “On the separation of families: right now we have 320,000 children that the Department of Homeland Security lost. Some have been victims of trafficking, others hopefully are with their family,” Vance said. “The true policy of separation in this country is Kamala Harris’s open border.” For his part, Walz highlighted the drop in the entry of fentanyl into the country and repeated Harris’ statements about her career as a prosecutor, as an example of her commitment to the fight against crime. In addition, he repeated criticism of Trump for allegedly having pressured Republicans to block a proposal by Joe Biden to strengthen the border. I criticize the Trump Administration for its plans to build a border wall and having done only 2 percent of it. Walz accused Vance and Trump of demonizing legal migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Vance’s home state. He pointed to the fact that Ohio’s Republican Governor Mike DeWine had to send additional police forces to provide security at city schools after Vance tweeted and Trump amplified false claims about Haitians eating pets. “This is what happens when you don’t want to solve it, you demonize it,” he said. Vance said the 15,000 Haitians in the city had caused economic and housing problems that the Biden-Harris Administration was ignoring.
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