- The 39-year-old lawmaker has embraced the same protectionist and nationalist line as Trump in 2016.
Ohio Senator JD Vance, chosen as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate For the elections on November 5, he is one of the representatives of the most extreme wing of the Republican Party and has been especially critical of migration to the United States.
The 39-year-old lawmaker has embraced the same protectionist and nationalist line Trump took in 2016, saying he sees the influx of foreign workers as a threat to the U.S. labor market.
“Immigration brings cheap labor into the country, which puts pressure on a whole range of services, from hospitality to housing,” Trump’s now number 2 said in an interview with the newspaper. The New York Times published in May.
“It’s not good to replace a McDonald’s worker from Middletown, Ohio, who earns $17 an hour with an immigrant who earns $15 an hour,” he insisted.
Since entering Capitol Hill as a senator in 2023, Vance has drafted or promoted several bills to limit the entry of migrants into the country, as well as impose criminal consequences on people living in the US illegally.
The proposals included requiring people who want to enter the United States with a temporary visa to pay between $5,000 and $10,000 as a “bail,” imposing a national system of legal status verification so that no company can hire undocumented people, or limiting the use of a humanitarian permit to enter the country.
The Republican, in turn, has helped popularize an anti-immigrant conspiracy theory known as “the great replacement.”
This postulate, which has its origins in a French novel from the early 1970s, states that the Democratic elites are promoting the arrival of migrants to the United States to “replace” or eliminate the political and cultural power of Anglo-Saxon people.
Different versions of this theory began to gain popularity since Trump’s arrival in 2016 and have been replicated not only by Vance, but also by other Republican politicians – including the former president – and conservative media figures such as the presenter of Fox News Tucker Carlson.
Vance has explicitly mentioned this conspiracy theory on multiple occasions.
“The media calls us racists for wanting to build Trump’s wall, but Biden’s open border policies (…) have brought more Democratic voters to this country,” Vance said in an announcement for his 2023 Senate campaign.
Support for Trump’s agenda
Following the announcement of Vance’s choice as vice presidential running mate, several groups in favor of restricting immigration to the country celebrated the decision, saying that the Republican will help “fulfill Trump’s promises.”
The former president has said that, if elected, he will continue to build the border wall, ban certain types of migrants from entering the country and carry out the “largest deportation operation” in history.
In an interview with Fox News shortly following being elected No. 2, Vance expressed support for deporting the more than 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status.
“We need to deport people who have broken the laws and come to this country,” he said, adding: “We need to start with violent criminals.”
Human rights groups and Democrats have already expressed concern regarding Vance’s selection.
“The former president had the option to choose someone more moderate (…) and this solidifies his complete takeover of the Republican Party,” said Texas Congresswoman Veronica Escobar in a call with reporters.
With information from EFE
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2024-07-17 12:41:39