US Vice President JD Vance reaffirms the Trump administration’s strict stance on immigration, saying green card holders and some foreign students could face deportation if they were not in the country’s greatest interests.
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Vance stressed that holding a green card does not guarantee permanent residency, adding that the number of deportations will increase as efforts to remove illegal immigrants intensifies.
He said, “Green Cardholders do not have indefinite rights to be in the United States.
“This is not basically about freedom of speech. Yes, it’s about national security, but more importantly, it’s about our decision to join our national community as the American masses.
“And if the Secretary of State and the President decide that this person should not be in America and that they do not have the legal right to stay here, that is just as easy.
He further suggested that international students could be deported if they were deemed a threat to national interests. “If we determine that having them in our country is not the best interest of the US, we certainly see people being deported on student visas,” he said.
Vance also criticized many foreign students at elite US universities, claiming that it was covering spots that could go to American students.
“Many of these foreign students pay full freight. So what’s at elite universities like Columbia and Harvard are eligible middle-class American children in Heartland who have not won a spot, as Chinese oligarchs paying $100,000 a year are earning the spot,” he argued.
