JD Vance accused of being “anti-immigrant” and calling Mexican drug traffickers terrorists

LOS ANGELES, California, USA – The Voto Latino organization accused James David Vancerecently appointed vice presidential candidate by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), of having a extensive anti-immigrant agenda.

Through a statement, the organization recalled that Vance, Senator from Ohiohas opposed measures that grant a path to citizenship for immigrants and has amplified the former president’s “dehumanizing rhetoric” about immigrants.

Vance, 39, has defended Trump’s claim that immigrants are “poisoning the country’s blood”.

In July of last year, the senator introduced the bill known as Timely Departure Law which would require foreigners wishing to enter the United States on temporary visas to pay between $5,000 and $15,000 in a bond or cash payment upon arrival. Department of Homeland Security (DHS, in English).

The foreigners would recover the amount only if they left the United States in accordance with the terms of their visas.

The bill, which failed to advance in the Senate, was intended to discourage visitors from overstaying their visas.

“The Latino community will not forget Vance’s extensive anti-immigrant agenda in November,” said Voto Latino co-founder and president, Maria Teresa Kumar.

The activist added that Vance has also promoted xenophobic conspiracy theories.

The Republican senator has also supported a nationwide ban on abortion without exceptions, among other ultra-conservative policies.

“Voters are tired of election deniers and extremists who are eager to undermine our democracy and they will prove it at the ballot box,” Kumar insisted.

He calls drug cartels in Mexico terrorists

UNMISSABLE excerpt from the interview given to ABC News by the now Republican candidate for vice president of 🇺🇸, Senator JD Vance, on Mexico’s role in the fentanyl crisis. pic.twitter.com/yQvNmGLCi6

— Brenda Estefan (@B_Estefan) July 16, 2024

James David Vance, known as JD Vance, was proposed yesterday by the presidential candidate of the Republican Party United States, Donald Trumpas his ally in the candidacy for the Vice President of the United States.

During an interview that JD Vance gave in July 2023 to the American television network NBC Newsassured that the solution to the Narcotrafficking in Mexico is that the drug cartels be declared and attacked as terrorist groups.

Proposes that the US Army enter Mexico

He also said that US Army could enter Mexico and search for criminal cells.

JD Vance is a senator for the state of Ohio, and in the programa “Meet the Press” NBC News’s John F. Kennedy emphasized that Mexican drug cartels should be considered terrorist groups in Latin America.

The now US vice presidential candidate said that Mexico should do the same thing that was done in Colombia to combat drug cartels.

Fentanyl production and trafficking in Mexico

On the problem in Mexico of the production and trafficking of fentanyl It is related to the economic power that drug cartels have.

Vance said the cartels had increased their revenues 14-fold in recent years, making them the most powerful terrorist and criminal organization in the world.

He added that the Mexican government was “destabilised” by the “constant flow of fentanyl”, adding that in 2 or 3 years the problem would be worse because the drug cartels would be “more powerful” than the State.

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