JD Vance pressed on ‘The View’ over Trump immigration policies 

Vice President Vance is making the rounds to promote his new book. His stop on “The View” gave voters an early look at how he might handle the scrutiny that comes with being MAGA’s heir apparent.  

The conversation covered a lot of ground. Vance was pressed on affordability, race in America, his past comments comparing Donald Trump to Hitler, and some of the most controversial policies of the administration. Worth watching in full, but it was immigration where the exchange became especially revealing.  

Sara Haines: “You do speak about immigration at length in this book, and I believe as a Christian I can tell my kid why it’s important to have borders. It’s much harder to explain when I see someone dragged out of the house or wrongly taken and weren’t a violent criminal.”  

Then co-host Ana Navarro referenced a passage in Vance’s book where he discusses the moral tradeoffs involved in supporting a strict immigration policy without dehumanizing people.  

Vance responded this way: “We do have to strike a balance between enforcing our laws — we don’t want to dehumanize people, law enforcement is always inherently not a very pretty process, especially when you’re dealing sometimes with violent people, people that are resisting arrest.”  

On its face, that’s a reasonable political answer. Most Americans........

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