VP Vance doubles down on WH's 'ambitious' goal to get criminal migrants off the streets: 'Policy matters'

Vice President JD Vance said the Trump medication is doing precisely what it said it would with respect to the nationwide U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids targeting migrants who person committed crimes.

Vance told Fox News big Sean Hannity connected Wednesday the White House has an "ambitious" extremity of getting transgression migrants disconnected the thoroughfare astatine a complaint of astir 2,000 per day.

"If you deliberation [about it], we've got 20 positive million illegal aliens successful this country. We person got to get these radical retired of our state and regain power of our ain border," helium said successful a sit-down interrogation from the nation’s superior connected "Hannity." 

ICE and DEA migrant raids NYC (Drug Enforcement Administration New York)

The fig of migrants arriving astatine the confederate borderline since Trump took bureau past week has dropped dramatically by much than 60%.

Data obtained by Fox News Digital shows determination were astir 7,200 migrant encounters successful Trump’s archetypal 7 days successful office, compared to much than 20,000 successful erstwhile President Biden’s last 7 days. 

"I warrant we're going to chopped it adjacent further," Vance said of the much than 60% decrease. "Policy matters. Elections person consequences and President Trump ran explicitly connected regaining power of the borderline and redelivering American prosperity. That's precisely what we're doing."

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives anterior to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump astatine the United States Capitol connected January 20, 2025 successful Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes bureau for his 2nd word arsenic the 47th President of the United States.  (Melina Mara - Pool/Getty Images)

Migrants are being repatriated to their location countries, including Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala and Ecuador.

"The take-home connection present is, ‘Not today. Not today, not tomorrow, not adjacent week. Do not travel to the United States and participate illegally,’" said U.S. Border Patrol Special Operations Supervisor Hamid Nikseresht aft much than 80 amerciable migrants were loaded onto a C-17 subject plane and deported from El Paso, Texas, backmost to Ecuador.

Vance took purpose astatine the hysteria from the near implicit the wide deportation efforts, pointing to Trump’s triumph successful November and his "mandate" from the American people.

"Now he's doing it," the erstwhile Ohio legislator said about Trump’s migration crackdown. "That's however antiauthoritarian authorities successful this state works and convey God for that."

The vice president made a shocking admittance astir the arrests of transgression migrants, telling Hannity the United States government, successful immoderate cases, knew their names and addresses. 

"We conscionable needed to nonstop idiosyncratic to spell to their location and get them the hellhole retired of the country," Vance said. 

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"We've known astatine slightest that they had convulsive transgression backgrounds. And we haven't done thing until astir 8 days agone erstwhile Donald Trump became the President of the United States again. It truly should daze the conscience of the American people."