Ahead of the interview, Vance told Fox News Digital he planned to have a ‘good conversation.’
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After years of being criticized by one of the top television programs in the country, Vice-President JD Vance verbally sparred with the hosts of “The View,” managing sometimes to seemingly convince some of them about his comments.
On Tuesday, Vance joined the women of “The View” and got into a verbal fracas with the co-hosts about immigration, sparring with Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin and taking a shot at the media.
The hosts of the program queried Vance on immigration and assumptions and negative comments about President Donald Trump, according to a story by Fox News.
“You talk about moral tradeoffs that result in favoring a strict migration policy without dehumanizing anyone,” Navarro said to Vance. “But listen, over 50 people have died in ICE custody. There are thousands of children — 6,200 — that are being held in places like Dilley Detention Center. The people that have visited — I don’t know if you have visited — talk about the subhuman, inhuman conditions, lack of clean water, the lack of medical attention, the lack of education. I would urge you, as a Christian and as a father, to visit those detention centers where the children are being held and make sure that the conditions are up to the values that we hold in this country.”
Vance countered: “We have to strike a balance between enforcing laws. We don’t want to dehumanize people. Law enforcement is always inherently not a pretty process. Especially when you deal, sometimes with violent people, with people who are resisting arrest. Some of the people that I have been told by the media were completely peaceful, never violated any laws, you look into the record and find out that those people were actually being violent, or they did have a criminal record. They had a sex traffic conviction.”
But Hostin responded, contending that a majority of people being stopped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were not criminals and accusing ICE of separating families and using “children as bait.”
“You talk about the children,” Vance responded. “Here is what I would say. We know that, during the last administration, we had tens of thousands of children who were sex-trafficked by cartels, brought into our country in profoundly dangerous and predatory conditions.”
Navarro argued it wasn’t just one person reporting it but conceded that the administration did a “good job closing the border,” and Vance thanked her.
“We’re going to get you back Ana,” he quipped, as the co-host smirked. Navarro was a Republican prior to Trump’s rise to the presidency in 2016. She has since been a vocal supporter of Democrats.
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