In a podcast interview dated Sept. 29 of this year, Vice President JD Vance offered the following argument to justify mass deportations:

"A lot of the problems that exist in American society would be solved--not all of them--but just by deporting illegal aliens. Lower housing prices, lower rent, lower violent crime statistics ... Our own Federal Reserve had done an economic analysis and said, well, if you get rid of all these people who are competing against Americans for homes, then it's going to cause home prices to go down. Also, by the way, if you deport a lot of people who are competing against Americans for jobs, it's gonna raise wages for middle-class Americans."

This is an argument that Vance repeats often. It is an attempt to justify, on the basis of economic considerations alone, the wicked practice of family separations and mass deportation. Illegals are costing you money, Vance says, so away with them! The end of saving money and raising middle-class wages justifies the means, namely, the destruction of immigrant families.

Such arguments ought to be deeply troubling to Christians and all people of good will. That........

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