Vance calls for reduction in legal immigration at Ole Miss TPUSA event

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00:00At a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi Wednesday evening,

00:04Vice President J.D. Vance said there needs to be a significant reduction

00:08in legal immigration to the United States.

00:13Vance said former President Joe Biden's immigration stance allowed more immigrants

00:18to enter the country than he believes to be optimal and that it could destabilize

00:23or harm the cohesion of American society.

00:25But my view is, look, there are people who want to come to the United States of America

00:29and some of them, I'm sure, can enrich the United States of America by coming here,

00:35but we have got to get our overall numbers way, way down.

00:39Too many people have come into the United States of America.

00:42Vance argued that legal immigration is complicated.

00:46He said the influx of undocumented migrants who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration

00:51undercuts the wages of American workers and increases the cost of housing.

00:56Vance explained how his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, comes from a family of immigrants

01:01who settled in the U.S. back in the 1980s.

01:04I do believe that some immigrants, many immigrants do in fact enrich the United States of America,

01:10but here's the problem.

01:11We have got, we don't even know how many illegal aliens we have.

01:15We don't even know.

01:16The best guess is probably 25, 30 million people.

01:20I've heard estimates as high as 50 million.

01:22When something like that happens, you've got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit,

01:28to build a sense of common identity for all the newcomers to assimilate.

01:33Vance also spoke about his late friend and founder of TPUSA, Charlie Kirk,

01:38who was assassinated on September 10th, calling him a great husband and great father.

01:43He also said Kirk was the most effective person in politics that he had ever seen.

01:48Vance touched on a conversation he had with Kirk just months before his death.

01:52I remember one time in particular where Charlie Kirk called me, and guys, he was mad.

01:58It was one, you know, I wouldn't say the last conversation that I had with him,

02:03but it was in the last few months of his life.

02:05And he called me and he said, J.D., I'm really worried.

02:08I'm really worried that what's going on in the Middle East right now

02:12is going to lead the United States into a protracted military conflict.

02:16I've never told anybody that, that Charlie was really worried about that in the final

02:21months of his life.

02:22Vance emphasized that the U.S. should stay out of wars that aren't necessary

02:27and avoid losing American lives in them.

02:29He praised President Trump's actions in the Middle East,

02:32including diplomacy in the Gaza ceasefire deal

02:34and a U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

02:38Meanwhile, the U.S. is ramping up military activity against Venezuela

02:43and attacking boats in the region that it claims are carrying illegal drugs.

02:48Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, who took over leadership of Turning Point USA,

02:52introduced Vance at the Ole Miss event.

02:54It was one of her first public appearances in her new role.

02:58For Straight Arrow News, I'm Lauren Keenan.

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03:04I'm Lauren Keenan.

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