JD Vance on

immigration

13 quotes · 4 posts · Jul 2026 – Aug 2026

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  1. Forbes Breaking News

    “And did you know this is the craziest statistic of the entire last administration, that all of the net job creation under Joe Biden's leadership went to foreign born Americans, mostly illegal aliens.”

    0:09 · Forbes Breaking News · 25 Aug 2026 · permalink
  2. Vance tells Democrats to have perspective on the ICE shooting controversy.

    “my message to the Democrats who are so worried about that situation is to say, have a little bit of perspective.”

    2:25 · Forbes Breaking News · 24 Aug 2026 · permalink
  3. Vance characterizes the old consensus as prioritizing corporate profits and foreign workers over citizens.

    “What we really needed, they told us, was just to juice the short term profits of a few big corporations. We needed to open that border and prioritize foreign workers over our own citizens.”

    0:51 · Forbes Breaking News · 24 Aug 2026 · permalink
  4. Vance accuses politicians of cheering corporate raiders who offshored jobs or hired illegal aliens.

    “They would cheer on the corporate raiders as they slashed headcount and shifted all those businesses either to foreign countries or brought in illegal aliens to employ.”

    1:05 · Forbes Breaking News · 24 Aug 2026 · permalink
  5. Vance recalls a media anchor dismissing Venezuelan gangs taking over 'only one or two' apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado.

    “And the anchor comes back and says to me, she says, well, they've only taken over one or two apartment complexes.”

    0:48 · Forbes Breaking News · 22 Aug 2026 · permalink
  6. Vance quotes Wall Street Journal editorial writer linking free trade and capital movement to free movement of labor.

    “He said someone who believes, this is a quote, in the free trade and free movements of capital, they declared, will quite naturally believe in the free movement of labor.”

    3:49 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  7. Vance argues worker replacement by foreign labor was the desired outcome of American elites, not an accident.

    “Being replaced by foreign workers, in other words, it was not an accident, my friends. It was the desired outcome of a generation of American elites.”

    4:08 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  8. Vance describes American workers being forced to train their foreign replacements before losing their jobs.

    “In other cases, American workers didn't just have their jobs destroyed, they got told they were being replaced by a foreign worker, and then they had to train that worker before they got replaced.”

    4:41 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  9. Vance recounts Kevin Flanagan, a programmer told to train his foreign replacement to receive severance in 1987.

    “And the business, the bank, they told him, you're only gonna get your severance package if you trained a foreign replacement to do your job instead.”

    5:12 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  10. Vance says the administration told corporations to train and hire Americans before seeking foreign workers.

    “And what we did is we told American corporations that if you wanted new workers, you gotta start by training and hiring your own countrymen.”

    2:17 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  11. Vance claims all net job growth in the past eighteen months went to native-born Americans, reversing a four-year trend.

    “Do you know that all net job growth over the past eighteen months went to native born Americans, reversing a trend for four years where it all went to other people?”

    3:04 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  12. Vance claims an incoming Democratic congresswoman wants to abolish prisons, police, and borders.

    “One incoming democrat congresswoman wants to abolish prisons, she wants to abolish police, and she wants to abolish the borders.”

    0:20 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink
  13. Vance claims Tim Walz pardoned a convicted child rapist to prevent his deportation from the United States.

    “Do remember Tim Waltz? Caught wind. And you know what he did? He pardoned the guy. He pardoned a literal child rapist to prevent him from being deported out of The United States Of America.”

    2:55 · Forbes Breaking News · 21 Aug 2026 · permalink

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