Imagine: A federal government, furious over the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, sends the National Guard across America to work with local police, going door to door, to round them up. They’ll either send them out of the country or detain them in migrant camps.
This may sound far-fetched, but it’s a leading policy proposal from Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president. And for some inexplicable reason, Democrats are ceding ground to this racist plan instead of explaining to American voters what mass deportation entails.
During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Republican Sen. JD Vance called the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a “historic immigration crisis.” Vance cited two primary factors to substantiate this claim: drugs and crime.
Since CBS decided not to fact-check Vance, let’s do it here.
“Illegal aliens massively increasing the asylum fraud that exists in our system — that has opened the floodgates and what it’s meant is that a lot of fentanyl is coming into our country,” Vance said during the debate.