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@VP @JDVance addresses weekend reports about ICE's deportation policies:
"The president of the United States has said clearly, if you were in the country illegally, you are subject to deportation. [...] Coming to the United States illegally is a crime and we treat it as such."
"Now, I think that the back and forth is, unfortunately, sometimes you have people who are leaking to reporters some internal policy documents and my understanding of what happened is that, you know, yes, if you, let's say, have a DHS agent and that guy can deport one person that day, he can go and deport a violent criminal or person who hasn't committed a violent crime, of course, we're going to prioritize the violent criminals."
"But that is not a reflection of overall deportation policy. That's about prioritizing fundamentally limited resources. One of the things, you know, I'm proudest of both our DHS secretary, but also Steven Miller, who kind of runs immigration policy from inside the White House, is when we started, we looked at this problem. We looked at the north of 10 million illegal aliens that had come in just under the last few years of the Biden administration. And then you add another 15 or 20 million on top of that who are already here. They said we need more people."
"And so it takes a long time to bring in, to train, to recruit the kind of people who can engage in the deportations that we need. But look, we've already I think gotten north of 3 million people out in just 18 months. Again, we have prioritized violent criminals, but nobody who has come into the United States illegally should remain in the United States. That remains our policy."
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