Vance Blasts Courts For Blocking Trump Admin Immigration Policies

Vice President JD Vance made it clear on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration was far from finished fighting t to enforce federal immigration laws and deport illegal aliens from the United States en masse.

During an interview with The New York Times’ Ross Douthat, Vance addressed the injunctions and lower court rulings aimed at preventing the Trump administration from enforcing federal laws and delivering on one of the the president’s chief campaign promises.

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“You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for,” Vance said. “And that’s where we are right now.”

“We’re gonna keep working it through the immigration court process, through the Supreme Court as much as possible,” Vance continued.

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“And look, success to me is not so much a number, though obviously I’d love to see the gross majority of the illegal immigrants who came in under Biden deported. That actually is a secondary metric of success. Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with, and that we have the infrastructure to do what allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens when large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country. That to me is real success.”

Vance went on to defend Trump’s decision to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected criminal illegal alien gang members, arguing that the people who have opposed it have never seen the impact of allowing unfettered illegal immigration to flood their communities.

“One thing I’d love for the American media to do a little bit more is really go to a migrant community where you have, say, 60% legal immigrants and 40% illegal immigrants. The level of chaos, the level of violence, the level of, I think, truly pre-modern brutality that some of these communities have gotten used to — whatever law was written, I think it vests us with very serious power to take very serious action against this,” he explained.

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