President Donald Trump's massive deportation plan will help raise wages for ordinary Americans, Sen. J.D. Vance told a national audience during the vice presidential debate.
Vance responded to a CBS reporter who asked, “Can you deport the parents who entered the United States illegally and separate them from their many children?” I will go back to “.'' Who was born in the continental United States? ”
Vance added that sending them home “would be very good for workers who just want to do a good day's work and earn a fair wage.”
First, “we have to stop the bleeding” at the border, Vance said, adding:
We've got to re-implement Donald Trump's border policies, we've got to re-build the wall, we've got to re-implement deportations…I mean, there's 20 million, 25 million illegal aliens in this country. It will be. What should we do with them? I think the first thing we need to do is start with criminal immigration. Approximately 1 million of them have crossed the border illegally or committed some type of crime. I think we'll start by deporting these people and making it harder for illegal aliens to undercut the wages of American workers.
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Last point, Margaret, as you're asking about family separation in the marketplace in this country right now, we have 320,000 children that the Department of Homeland Security has effectively lost. Some of them have engaged in sex trafficking[ed]. Some of them would prefer to stay home with their families if possible. Some of them were used as mules for drug trafficking. The real family separation policy in this country is, unfortunately, Kamala Harris' wide open southern border.
“We're going back to Donald Trump's border policies,” he added.
