Vice President J.D. Vance talks immigration enforcement in an interview with FOX News host Martha MacCallum on “The Story.”

MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS: Can you describe how it’s going to look different now after the Minnesota surge? And is Tom Homan now leading this immigration push to try to remove more people who are here illegally? VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: Well, Tom Homan’s always been a critical part of what we’ve done at the border and when it comes to immigration enforcement. What we’ve consistently said is that we want to deport violent criminals, people who came in under the Biden administration illegally and get them out of our country so that Americans’ wages can go up, so that American streets can be safer. Tom’s been an important part of that, but of course Kristi Noem’s been an important part of that, our DHS Secretary Stephen Miller at the White House has been an important part of that. Here’s the thing, Martha, where you’ve had cooperation between the state, the local, and the federal government, whether it’s a blue city like Memphis or a red city in a small town in the middle of Ohio, you have great cooperation and you don’t have the chaos. We’re able to get illegal aliens out of our country and we’re able to do it in an orderly way. Where you have Democrats refusing to cooperate, places like Minneapolis, places like Los Angeles, the entire immigration enforcement thing, it becomes more chaotic, it becomes harder to get the worst people out of our country. It’s a nightmare for the American people, but unfortunately the Democrats, at least some of them, some elected Democrats, are so committed to the idea that you shouldn’t be able to deport anybody that they’re willing to put at risk the lives of local police, the lives of federal law enforcement, to ensure that it’s as hard as possible to enforce the border. We’re going to keep on enforcing the border despite that, but man, it would be great to have a little bit more help from the local officials.

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