Vance Expects a ‘Rise’ in Deportations of Illegal Migrants, Student Visa Holders in Wake of Mahmoud Khalil Arrest

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he expects deportations of illegal migrants and “pro-Hamas” student visa holders, like Mahmoud Khalil, to “rise” as the Trump administration builds the capacity to detain and eventually remove such individuals.

“We do this sequentially,” Vance explained in an interview with “The Ingraham Angle” host Laura Ingraham on Fox News {snip}

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The vice president argued that former President Joe Biden “underfunded” migrant detention facilities and “destroyed” Immigration and Customs Enforcement {snip}

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When asked about the arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration has accused of circulating “pro-Hamas propaganda flyers,” Vance argued that the green-card holder doesn’t have an “indefinite right to be in the United States.”

“This is not fundamentally about free speech, and to me, yes, it’s about national security, but it’s also more importantly about who do we as an American public decide gets to join our national community?” Vance said. {snip}

“I think we’ll certainly see some people who get deported on student visas if we determine that it’s not in the best interest of the United States to have them in our country,” he continued.

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