Vice President JD Vance advocated a slowdown in legal immigration Wednesday, saying, \u201cWe have to get the overall numbers way, way down.\u201d <\/p>\n
Vance took questions from students at the University of Mississippi at an event organized by Turning Point USA, stepping into the role of debater that was so often performed by the organization\u2019s slain founder, Charlie Kirk. <\/p>\n
Vance said the optimal number of legal immigrants to admit is \u201cfar less than what we\u2019ve been accepting,\u201d but he did not offer a firm number when pressed by a woman who questioned his stance. He criticized former President Joe Biden\u2019s immigration policies, which he said allowed too many people into the country and threatened the social fabric of the United States. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen something like that happens, you\u2019ve got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit, to build a sense of common identity, for all the newcomers \u2014 the ones who are going to stay \u2014 to assimilate into American culture,\u201d Vance said. \u201cUntil you do that, you\u2019ve got to be careful about any additional immigration, in my view.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vance also spoke forcefully about avoiding American deaths in \u201cunnecessary foreign conflicts,\u201d touting President Donald Trump\u2019s Middle East diplomacy and the strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the U.S. steps up military pressure on Venezuela and strikes boats that the Trump administrations says are transporting drugs. <\/p>\n
Asked whether Trump\u2019s deployment of the National Guard to Democratic-led cities will lead to a future president using that government power against conservatives, he said his allies shouldn\u2019t be worried about Trump\u2019s exercise of executive power. He justified Trump\u2019s targeting of his political enemies by pointing to his arrest during Biden\u2019s administration. He was charged with illegally keeping classified documents after his first term and attempting to subvert the 2020 election he lost, but the charges were dismissed after he was elected to his second term a year ago. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future,\u201d Vance said. \u201cThe left is already going to do it regardless of whether we do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vance was introduced by Kirk\u2019s widow, Erika Kirk, in one of her first public appearances since she took over her husband\u2019s role leading Turning Point. <\/p>\n
\u201cBeing on campus right now, for me, is a spiritual reclaiming of territory,\u201d she said, reflecting on Kirk\u2019s love of visiting universities and his mission to move campuses to the right. <\/p>\n
Wearing a white \u201cfreedom\u201d shirt like the one her husband wore when he was shot, Erika Kirk urged young Christian conservatives to courageously fight for their beliefs and not fear the social consequences.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re worried about losing a friend\u2014I lost my friend,\u201d she said. \u201cI lost my best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance advocated a slowdown in legal immigration Wednesday, saying, \u201cWe have to get the overall…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[19719,1226,69,120792,57,2055,86,409,2066,82,3097,50,80,2068,67,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-342481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-conservatism","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-erika-kirk","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-government-and-politics","15":"tag-government-policy","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-jd-vance","18":"tag-joe-biden","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115461626515712220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}