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J. D. Vance: “We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal…”

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

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Karoline Leavitt, JD Vance speak at White House

Published | Video Starts at 25:10

On administrative leave? And what really was the target of the operation on Wednesday, of the ICE operation on Wednesday? Well, first of all, it was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States of America. Because if you come to our country illegally in violation of our immigration laws, then we have the mandate and in fact we have the legal duty to enforce those immigration laws. (25:10–25:15)

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Asserts that a law enforcement operation was conducted to find and deport criminal illegal aliens.

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