(LibertySociety.com) – Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the mass deportations proposed by Republican nominee Donald Trump should begin by deporting one million illegal aliens.
In an interview with Time magazine in April, the former president discussed deporting millions of foreign nationals who have entered the country illegally using the National Guard.
Trump said that by the time Joe Biden left office, there would be between 15-20 million illegal aliens in the United States, which he described as unsustainable for the country.
While appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on August 11, Trump’s running mate elaborated on the Republican ticket’s immigration plan, explaining that a second Trump administration would pursue a “sequential approach” to deportations.
Vance told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that the plan must begin with “what’s achievable,” suggesting that the deportations would begin with violent criminals.
He said a second Trump administration would also seek to “make it harder to hire illegal labor,” which he said has undercut American wages. Vance added that making it more difficult for illegals to work would go a long way to solving the problem of illegal immigration.
Vance said that instead of focusing on how to deport as many as 18 million people, the deportations should begin with about 1 million, and “then we can go from there.”
Vance also defended his wife Usha from attacks by white supremacists like neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
After Trump selected Vance as his running mate, Fuentes claimed that the Ohio senator would not defend “white identity” because he is married to an Indian and has a child named Vivek.
Vance described his wife, the daughter of legal immigrants from India, as “smart” and “beautiful” and said only a man who was “smart” and “lucky” would marry her.
Vance also dismissed the criticism he has faced over a comment he made several years ago to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in which he described liberal women as “childless cat ladies.”
When asked if he regretted the comment, Vance said he regretted that the news media and the Harris-Walz campaign had “distorted” what he said. He said they turned the comment “into a policy proposal” that he never made, adding that he wanted the country “to be more pro-family.”
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