JD Vance

i think it's going well i mean we are criticized interestingly by some folks on the right who want the pace of deportations to be higher and i certainly understand that frankly and share that frustration the counter argument is the courts are trying to stay stop us at every step of the way and until about a month ago we didn't have the resources for ice to actually get this massive invasion that joe biden led into our country

We didn't have the resources necessary to actually process a lot of those people.

That has changed because of the big, beautiful bill.

We've also gotten some court case wins.

So I expect that the pace of deportations will increase a little bit.

But importantly, when people criticize us and they say, you know, sometimes I'll hear this criticism, well, the pace of deportations from the Trump administration is actually lower than it was the Biden administration.

And that's actually a completely fake statistic.

It's based on the fact

But if you come into the country illegally, and then the Biden administration processes you and sends you out, that counts as a deportation.

It counts as an illegal immigration, and then it counts as deportation.

So you have to look at the net number, right?

If you do plus one, minus one, I'm not a math expert, but I'm pretty sure that's zero.

The net number is what really matters.

And where the Trump administration, where we've been most wildly successful is that we have, I think in 2025, we will have the first net negative immigration number in about 50 or 60 years in the United States.

And so there has been a major, a major, major shift in immigration policy.

Now, again, I'm like, you know, me and Stephen Miller are probably the two most hard line people in the entire administration when it comes to immigration.

So there's always more that we can do.

And like I said, I think that there is more that we can do.

But if you just look fundamentally, what people said is that if you actually take border enforcement seriously, the entire economy is going to collapse.

Inflation is going to go through the roof.