Vice President Vance is taking a page out of Trump’s book. The time for playing nice is over.
And now he didn’t pull any punches in this brutal takedown at the border.
Vice President J.D. Vance stood firm Wednesday, backing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tempo, arguing they’re piecing together a Homeland Security system that President Biden left in shambles.
Down at the Texas border, Vance cheered the massive plunge in illegal crossings but admitted there’s still work to do when it comes to rounding up and kicking out undocumented immigrants already stateside.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” he quipped. “President Biden gutted the entire immigration enforcement regime of this country. We are trying to rebuild.”
Arrests are spiking, but deportations? Down. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement clocked roughly 645 deportations daily by late February—a 17% dip from the same stretch in 2024. Why? Fewer border cases to boot out and trickier interior enforcement.
Vance shot a plea to Congress: cough up more cash for deportation flights and the squads fanning out into neighborhoods to hunt for targets.
He also tossed a nudge to illegal immigrants—pack up and leave on your own.
On Trump’s vision, Vance said the boss aims to “build the entire border wall” by the end of his second term, though he kept mum on how many miles that covers.
A reporter floated rumors of U.S. troops rolling into Mexico. Vance shut it down hard.
“No,” he said.
Tagging along were Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard aired worries about migrants who slipped in under Biden’s watch. She cited reports of a thousand funneled through a smuggling ring linked to the Islamic State.
Turns out, “hundreds” might have terrorist ties, authorities later figured out. Biden’s crew nabbed “a little over 100” last year but cut loose all but eight, Gabbard noted.
She’s after answers on the rest.
“Where are they, what are they doing, what may they be plotting?” she pressed.
The border stretch they scoped out? Night-and-day difference.
Vance said agents once logged 1,500 illegal crossings daily. Now? Down to 30.
Hegseth boasted a border-wide plunge of 98%.
“We’re not yet at 100% operational control but we are on our way,” the Pentagon boss declared.
