Speaking last night at the Turning Point USA rally at the University of Mississippi, Vice President JD Vance answered a series of questions from the audience. One questioner asked:
I understand your view on illegal immigration. . . . So what is your view on legal immigration? Should we reduce it?
Vance replied:
[M]y honest view is that, right now, we have let in too many immigrants into the United States of America. . . . [W]e let in about a million legal immigrants into the United States of America every single year, and I think the evidence is pretty clear that a lot of those immigrants are actually undercutting the wages of American workers. It’s one of the reasons why the President of United States, and a lot of us in the administration, have encouraged H-1B reform. . . . [W]e have got to get our overall numbers way, way down. Too many people have come into the United States of America.
That is the kind of approach we here at the American Immigration Control Foundation have recommended for many years. It is not just illegal migration we must stop; we must realize we have become overwhelmed by legal immigrants, and we must take steps to get those numbers, as Vance says, “way, way down.”
For the complete transcript of VP Vance’s remarks, see Rev.com.