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Vice President JD Vance sparred with CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on Raw illegal immigrants and refugees During a “Face the Nation” interview on Sunday.
Brennan asked Vance for his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s executive orders, putting a Break on refugee resettlement operations while requiring enhanced verifications for Visa applications.
She specifically asked if he was standing His past comments that the US should not “abandon anyone who is properly vetted”.
“Well, Margaret, I don’t agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees are properly vetted,” Vance said. “In fact, we know that there are cases of people who were supposedly properly vetted and then literally planned terrorist attacks in our country. This happened during the campaign, if you remember. So, obviously, not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.”
Refugee resettlement efforts have been temporarily halted under President Donald Trump’s executive order. (Reuters)
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Brennan pressed Vance on whether he stood by his comments while dozens Thousands of Afghan refugee resettlement processes Stay in Limbo for an executive order.
Vance replied, “My main concern as Vice President, Margaret, is to look out for the American people . . .”
“So, no,” Brennan said.
“… And now that we know we have problems with many of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot release thousands of unprocessed people into our country. That’s not good,” Vance continued.
“These people are vetted. These people are vetted,” Brennan insisted.
Vance referred to a recent example Afghan national in Oklahoma who is accused of planning a terrorist attack in October. He originally came to the country in September 2021 after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan and went through multiple vetting processes.
Thousands of refugee statuses in the US have been called into question after the executive order. (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)
“I don’t want my kids to share a neighborhood with people who haven’t been properly vetted. And because I don’t want that for my kids, I’m not going to force any other American citizen’s kids to do that,” Vance said.
“No. And it was a very special case,” Brennan said. “It wasn’t clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living here, but …”
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“I don’t really care, Margaret,” Vance replied. “I don’t want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me.”
Vance also defended Trump’s executive order Complete birth citizenship For the children of illegal immigrants while Brennan claimed that “this is a country founded by immigrants”.
Vice President JD Vance clashed with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on several topics. (CBS screenshot)
“This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers,” Vance said. “But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn’t mean that, 240 years later, we have to have the stupidest immigration policy in the world. No country says that temporary visitors, their children will get full access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship.”
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