Vice President JD Vance urged reducing legal immigration, honored Charlie Kirk and cautioned against U.S. involvement in foreign wars.
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At a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi Wednesday evening
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Vice President J.D. Vance said there needs to be a significant reduction
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in legal immigration to the United States. Vance said former President Joe Biden's immigration stance allowed more immigrants
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to enter the country than he believes to be optimal, and that it could destabilize or harm the cohesion of American society
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But my view is, look, there are people who want to come to the United States of America
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And some of them, I'm sure, can enrich the United States of America by coming here
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But we have got to get our overall numbers way, way down
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Too many people have come into the United States of America. Vance argued that legal immigration is complicated
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He said the influx of undocumented migrants who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration
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undercuts the wages of American workers and increases the cost of housing
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Vance explained how his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, comes from a family of immigrants who settled in the U.S. back in the 1980s
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I do believe that some immigrants, many immigrants do in fact enrich the United States of America
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But here's the problem. We have got, we don't even know how many illegal aliens we have
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We don't even know. The best guess is probably 25, 30 million people
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I've heard estimates as high as 50 million. And when something like that happens, you've got to allow your own society to cohere a
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little bit to build a sense of common identity for all the newcomers to assimilate Vance also spoke about his late friend and founder of TPUSA Charlie Kirk who was assassinated on September 10th
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calling him a great husband and great father. He also said Kirk was the most effective person in
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politics that he had ever seen. Vance touched on a conversation he had with Kirk just months
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before his death. I remember one time in particular where Charlie Kirk called me and guys, he was mad
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It was one, you know, I wouldn't say the last conversation that I had with him, but it was in the last few months of his life
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And he called me and he said, J.D., I'm really worried. I'm really worried that what's going on in the Middle East right now is going to lead the United States into a protracted military conflict
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I've never told anybody that, that Charlie was really worried about that in the final months of his life
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Vance emphasized that the U.S. should stay out of wars that aren't necessary and avoid losing American lives in them
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He praised President Trump's actions in the Middle East, including diplomacy in the Gaza ceasefire deal and a U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities
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Meanwhile, the U.S. is ramping up military activity against Venezuela and attacking boats in the region that it claims are carrying illegal drugs
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Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, who took over leadership of Turning Point USA
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introduced Vance at the Ole Miss event. It was one of her first public appearances in her new role
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For Straight Arrow News, I'm Lauren Keenan. If you want more on this story, download the Straight Arrow News app or visit san.com
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