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J. D. Vance: “It is something that we have fixed in the Trump…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Vice President JD Vance Briefs Members of the Media, May 19, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 24:13

We didn't do any of the work necessary to ensure that the people coming into our country claiming to be asylum claimants and actually had anything legitimate or anything good in their background. So that is a serious problem. It is something that we have fixed in the Trump administration. But fundamentally, that loophole you're going to see sometime in the future, somebody is going to try to exploit that loophole. (24:13–24:17)

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Claims the Trump administration fixed the fraudulent asylum and refugee process.

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