JD Vance
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It's like 1.85 million to be more precise.
Number two, it codified what's called catch and release, where a person comes into our country, they're an illegal immigrant, but they say, no, no, no, I'm not an illegal immigrant.
And so their claim for asylum gets adjudicated.
But because there's a backlog, because we have so many, their claim isn't going to be adjudicated for 15 years.
So rather than having that person wait in Mexico, we give them a work permit.
And we give them legal status and we let them come into the United States of America.
That's called catch and release.
Donald Trump's policy was you have to wait in Mexico.
We're not going to catch you and then release you into the country for 15 years.
In other words, even if Donald Trump became president, this is why he really hated it, is that he would not be able to undo catch and release if he won the election.
It would be codified into American law.
Nothing on the border wall, nothing on an immigration system called parole, which is supposed to be a case by case.
You grant parole to people who are fleeing tyranny.
But Harris has used parole to the tune of millions upon millions.
Mass parole, whole categories of country have been paroled into the United States.
It didn't do anything to solve that problem.