Vice President JD Vance explained that the deportation of illegal immigrants with “violent criminal backgrounds” was simple because their addresses were known to the White House.
Deportation and repatriation efforts are in full swing across the country. The U.S. Air Force posted photos of illegal immigrants boarding planes and local law enforcement have confirmed arrests across the country. Vance gave his first television interview since becoming the Vice President on Fox News’s Hannity on Wednesday to give an update on more dangerous illegal immigrants that officials deported.
“How do we find them?” Hannity asked. “You have a known terrorists but you don’t know where they are. Known cartel members but you don’t know where they are.”
However, Vance said it is only “sometimes” true that their locations aren’t known.
“You ask what is shocking to me. It’s that many of these violent criminals, we knew their addresses, we knew their names, we just needed to send some of you to go to their house and get them the hell out of the country. That really should shock the American people,” Vance said.
“Wait a minute, we’ve known where they are?” Hannity asked. “And we’ve known that they have terror ties?”
“We’ve known at least that they had violent criminal backgrounds and we haven’t done anything until about eight days ago when Donald Trump became the president of the United States again,” Vance said. “One of the things you heard on the campaign trail, one of the criticisms was a “yes” we have 20 million illegal aliens, close to a million violent criminal illegal aliens, and we don’t know where they are. It turns out we actually do know where a lot of them are. We just haven’t had immigration enforcement, and that’s what’s changed dramatically.”
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Vance went on to estimate that 20 million immigrants illegally entered the U.S. from the time former President Joe Biden took office. Some 1.3 million of them have outstanding deportation orders. President Donald Trump promised that some could expect detention in Guantanamo Bay.
However, border czar Tom Homan expressed his plan to deport many more. Homan anticipates deportation flights to happen daily.