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 Fox News host Laura Ingraham, noting that the Trump administration is first trying to seal the southern border before ramping up deportations.
“We’ve almost accomplished complete border security,” the vice president said, touting a “well over 95%” reduction in migrant encounters since President Trump took office in January.
“So once you get operative control of the border, now you have to ramp up deportations,” Vance continued.
The vice president argued that former President Joe Biden “underfunded” migrant detention facilities and “destroyed” Immigration and Customs Enforcement, leaving the Trump administration with “a hole that we have to dig out of.”