In a rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon, Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) told Vice President Harris how he felt about immigration and public safety.
Vance told a crowd in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, that Harris had taken away a “birthright” of Americans: the safety of the public. He told them, “It’s time to give it back.”
Vance talked about Anne Fundner, a mother who spoke at the Republican National Convention in July after the death of her 15-year-old son from fentanyl. Fundner said that the Biden administration’s border policies were to blame for her son’s death.
“Don’t we all want to raise our kids in places where they can make mistakes and not lose their lives because of them?” Vance said.
He also said that his three young children will probably “do something that really pisses me off” when they grow up.
Vance said, “But I want them to grow up in a country where the streets are safe enough and where they can make a mistake and learn from it instead of having it kill them.” “That’s what we need.” Now we need to get back to keeping people safe in this country.
The father of a boy who died in a bus accident last year has said bad things about the Ohio senator and former president Trump. They should not use the death of his son as “a political tool” to spread “hate” against foreigners, he said.
Vance switched his attention to a story closer to home: “Mexican drug cartel members” were being caught outside of Milwaukee.
He said that the problem of immigration is not just in the Southwest of the country because “every community is a border community” because of the “problems that Kamala Harris has imported.”
“I find it hard to believe how different President Trump’s policies are from Kamala Harris’s,” she said. Kamala Harris wants to stop people from being deported. “Donald Trump wants to bring back deportations,” Vance said.
He said that people who come to the U.S. illegally and then break the law should never have been here in the first place.
Vance said, “And when Donald J. Trump is president, they’re all going home.” “We are going to send the criminal immigrants back to their home country.” It’s really easy. It’s not hard to understand.
The immigration system in the United States has been a big issue in this election period. Republicans want to attack both President Biden and Senator Harris over the fentanyl problem, migrant crime, and the large number of people coming to the southern border, even though the number of people crossing has gone down.
People are upset with Vance because he spread a fake story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating people’s pets.
Trump also said the false thing during last week’s election debate. In the days since, the city has dealt with the effects, such as a bomb threat with harmful messages for refugees and the closing of schools.
Harris said it was a “crying shame” that Vance and Trump spread lies about immigrants in Springfield. She also said that they were using racist stereotypes.
That day, Vance went to two rallies. The first one was in Eau Claire. Earlier Tuesday in Michigan, he talked about what seemed to be an attempt to kill Trump. He blamed Democrats and the media for making security for the former president worse.
Our team at The Hill has asked the Harris campaign for a response.