Vance: “It Really Is The Case That You Just Needed A New President”
Vice President J.D. Vance touts the successes of the Trump administration’s immigration policies in an interview with FNC’s Lara Trump on “My View with Lara Trump.”
LARA TRUMP, FOX NEWS: Mr. Vice President, thank you so much for sitting down with me again. J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Of course. Good to see you. L. TRUMP: Thank you. Let’s start with the fact that our border is now secure and this president’s immigration policies, this administration’s immigration policies, despite grandstanding from Democrats — J.D. VANCE: Yep. L. TRUMP: — has led to the deportation of thousands of violent illegal criminals. And obviously, we have seen the lowest border crossings in American history. J.D. VANCE: Correct. L. TRUMP: Where do you think the immigration policy of the United States goes from here? J.D. VANCE: Well, I’ll tell you the story. So — and you can — if you watch the State of the Union Address last year, you will see this because the president added the line last year where he said, “It turns out we didn’t need a bunch of new laws. We just needed a new president.” And I, in the Senate, had been kind of pushing back against this idea that we needed some, you know, immigration law that actually was a bad immigration law. And so, I was like so into that line that I stood up before everybody else and was just like, “Yes, absolutely.” It really is the case that you just needed a new president. It’s not that hard to enforce the immigration laws. It just takes a little bit of political willpower. So, where do we go from here? I mean, look, there are a couple things that we’re trying to do. One, we’re going to keep on getting people who came into the country illegally out of the country. You know, there’s this crazy narrative in the media that deportations are chaotic and they’re terrible when in reality, the only places where deportations are chaotic is in Minneapolis and is in Los Angeles. So, the president has asked us to continue with the immigration policy, but frankly, where you have the blue states, the blue cities that aren’t willing to work with us to force them to work with us. You know, you saw murders come down by 20 percent in 2025. Well, a big part of that — there’s a lot of reasons for it. A big part of that is you’ve gotten these violent criminal illegal aliens out of the country. So, we’re going to keep on doing that. We’re going to keep on working at it. I’m sure the Democrats will throw up some obstacles in our way, but we’re not going to stop.
