Vanessa Cárdenas: “The more Americans learn about the related costs and consequences, the more unpopular the Trump/Vance agenda becomes.”
Washington, DC — This past weekend, during an interview aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” JD Vance refused to answer three separate direct questions from host Kristen Welker about the key details and targets of the Trump/Vance proposed “largest deportation operation in American history.”
As NBC News reported in an article, “Vance dodges on whether Trump’s immigration policy would lead to family separations,” (with video of interview embedded in above link) Vance, “…evaded multiple questions … about whether Trump’s proposed ‘zero tolerance’ policy on immigration would lead to family separation.” Separating thousands of children from their parents with no plans to reunite the families echoes one of the cruelest moments of the first Trump administration – one of the darkest chapters of any modern American presidency.
Vance’s refusal to answer direct questions about mass deportation and family separation echoed that of Trump last week in Arizona. In response to excellent questioning by NBC News reporter Garrett Haake, Trump reiterated the unsparing nature of his proposed mass deportation plan and admitted that immigrants in American mixed-status families may be affected, but refused to offer other key details (see more from AV on the Trump exchange with NBC News here).
The following is a statement from America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas:
“There’s a simple reason that Donald Trump and JD Vance are refusing to answer direct questions about the details and scope of their mass deportation vision. The more Americans learn about the related costs and consequences, the more unpopular the Trump/Vance agenda becomes.
A strong majority of the American public, including Latino and battleground state voters, want a balanced approach to immigration that pairs an orderly border alongside a pathway to citizenship for immigrant families. Instead, the Trump-Vance combo wants mass family separation that would deport Dreamers and mixed-status family members and deploy the military in a show-me-your-papers force to round up our undocumented friends and neighbors. The more the public learns about this dark and dystopian vision, the more they recoil.”
