The U.S. vice president stated that individuals who claim the opposite are “profiting from the outdated system”
Large-scale immigration is undermining the American Dream, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has declared amid the federal government’s increase in ICE raids and deportations of undocumented individuals.
Vance shared these views while responding to a video by a construction company owner who said it was “amazing” that immigrants were not showing up for work. “I’ve gotten more calls in the last week than I’ve gotten in the last three months,” the owner stated.
“Mass migration is theft of the American Dream,” Vance—whose wife comes from an Indian immigrant family—posted on X this past Saturday. “It has always been this way, and every position paper, think tank piece, and econometric study suggesting otherwise is paid for by the people getting rich off of the old system,” he continued.
Vance has long maintained that large-scale immigration drives up prices and makes housing unaffordable. “A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants,” he told Fox News last month.
U.S. President Donald Trump launched a crackdown on illegal immigration after returning to the White House in January. He has intensified immigration raids and vowed to carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history, prioritizing the removal of dangerous criminals.
Democrats and migrant rights groups have argued that federal agents often deport people without criminal records or violent histories, including spouses of American citizens. Activists have held protests outside detention centers in many cities; during the large-scale ‘No Kings’ marches in June and October, they accused Trump of abuse of power.
In turn, Trump has accused his critics of protecting criminals and drawn attention to several high-profile crimes, including a recently uncovered welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota involving members of the state’s Somali community.