Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he hopes to expel illegal immigrants like Mahmoud Khalil and “Prohama” student holders.
“We're going to do this one after another,” Vance explained in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, saying the Trump administration is first trying to run around foreign borders to steal the border.
“We achieved almost full border security,” the vice president said since Trump took office in January, immigrant encounters have touted reductions “a much more than 95%.”
“So, surgically controlling the borders requires strengthening deportation,” Vance continued.
The vice president claimed that former President Joe Biden is “scarce” of immigration detention facilities, “destroys” immigration and customs enforcement, leaving the Trump administration “a hole we have to dig out.”
“We're building that capacity,” he said. “I think you're going to see those deportations increase.”
Trump is “impatience” over the process, his veep revealed.
“Every day in private and public, even the president asks, 'How do you get deportees?',” Vance told Ingraham, insisting, “it's good that there are leaders who tend to be impatient at getting things done.”
About 37,660 people were deported during the president's first month, with 70% of ice arrests under Trump having criminal records or facing charges, the agency said earlier this week.
“I think the number of these deportees will rise,” Vance said. “You've already begun to see some real progress. I'm going to make more.”
When asked about the arrest of Colombian alumni Mahmoud Khalil, who accused the Trump administration of circulating “Prohama Propaganda Flyers,” Vance insisted that the green card holder does not have “an indefinite right to be in the US.”
“This isn't basically about freedom of speech. For me, yes, it's about national security, but even more important, it's about our participation in the national community as American citizens,” Vance said. “And if the Secretary of State and the President decide that this person should not be in America and that they do not have the legal right to stay here, that is just as easy.
“If we determine that having them in our country is not the best interest of the US, we certainly see people being deported on student visas,” he continued.
“I don't know how high that number will be, but you'll see more people.”
