Vance on Deportation Numbers: We Have to Secure Border First, Deportations Weren’t Funded, There Is Some Progress

During a portion of an interview that was aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Vice President JD Vance commented on the pace of deportations being behind schedule to deport 12 million people by stating that the border has to be secured first, which they’ve almost totally accomplished, and “once you get operative control of the border, now you have to ramp up deportations.” And that deportations haven’t been adequately funded.

Host Laura Ingraham asked, “[A]ccording to Reuters, in the first month in office, I think you guys have been able to deport about 37,600 people, which is not a small number. But to really get those numbers up, it would have to be about 60,000 a week to hit that 12 million mark. You’ve run out of beds. You have like 47,000 people in detention but you’ve run out of beds. What next?” -- More...