Vance Vows an End to Programs for Legal Immigrants

Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, escalated Mr. Trump’s attacks against legal immigration on Tuesday, vowing to end programs that authorize hundreds of thousands of immigrants to live and work in the United States.

“What Donald Trump has proposed doing is we’re going to stop doing mass parole. We’re going to stop doing mass grants of Temporary Protected Status,” Mr. Vance said at a campaign event in Peoria, Ariz. “Of course, you’re going to have people fleeing from tyranny, but that happens on a case-by-case basis, not by waving the magic government wand.”

{snip} Mr. Vance deflected questions from local reporters about deporting DACA recipients and restarting family separations at the border. {snip} Mr. Vance said “we also have to deport people, not just the bad people who came into our country, but people who violated the law coming into this country. We’ve got to be willing to deport them.”

About 864,000 immigrants have legal residency through a program known as Temporary Protected Status, which Congress created in 1990 for people fleeing war and other crises in their home countries. The program currently grants legal protection to immigrants from 16 countries, with most coming from Venezuela, El Salvador and Haiti.

This month, Mr. Trump had vowed to revoke that legal status for Haitian immigrants, who have been the target of accusations by the former president and Mr. Vance — most prominently in Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Vance’s remarks on Tuesday appeared to widen that pledge, suggesting that all immigrants granted Temporary Protected Status would have to find other methods to stay in the country or face deportation. {snip}

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