Vice President J.D. Vance blasted the courts over Democrat-aligned activist judges blocking President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Vance noted that the American people support the president’s policies, the Daily Wire reported.
The vice president expressed his outrage about the issue during an interview with Ross Douthat at the New York Times.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump made it clear that he would crack down on illegal immigration.
He has kept that promise from day one of his presidency, including invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport dangerous illegal alien gang members.
However, the courts have attempted to thwart these policies at every turn.
Vance spoke at length about this with Douthat on his “Interesting Times” podcast, which was released on Monday.
Vance took exception with the judiciary, mostly for its unwillingness to listen to the will of the people.
“You cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement, and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for,” Vance told Douthat.
“And that’s where we are right now,” the vice president added.
Vance promised that they were going to continue to fight, however.
“We’re gonna keep working it through the immigration court process, through the Supreme Court as much as possible,” Vance said.
“And look, success to me is not so much a number, though obviously I’d love to see the gross majority of the illegal immigrants who came in under Biden deported.
“That actually is a secondary metric of success,” he added.
“Success to me is that we have established a set of rules and principles that the courts are comfortable with, and that we have the infrastructure to do what allows us to deport large numbers of illegal aliens when large numbers of illegal aliens come into the country.
“That to me is real success.”
Vance believes the only way to get this done is through cooperation with the courts.
However, the administration has met particular resistance with its decision to use the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump has attempted to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to swiftly remove illegal immigrants who are gang members from the U.S.
As CNN reported, the Supreme Court again blocked its use in a decision Friday.
Vance believes this is a mistake because legal immigrants are the most invested in rooting out dangerous criminals in the migrant community.
“One thing I’d love for the American media to do a little bit more is really go to a migrant community where you have, say, 60% legal immigrants and 40% illegal immigrants,” Vance explained.
“The level of chaos, the level of violence, the level of, I think, truly pre-modern brutality that some of these communities have gotten used to — whatever law was written, I think it vests us with the power to take very serious action against this.
“It’s bad, it’s bad,” he noted.
“It’s worse than people appreciate,” Vance said.
He warned naysayers not to “filter” how they feel about immigration enforcement with the fact that Trump and Vance are the ones who wish to do it.
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Americans voted to fix the problems with illegal immigration, and Vance is correct that the courts are working against that end.
The good news is that the Trump administration will surely press on until the problem is properly addressed, just as promised.
