Vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance fact-checked the CBS News moderators in Tuesday night’s debate, setting the record straight on the Biden-Harris administration’s practice of unilaterally bestowing temporary legal status on border-crossers entering the United States “at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand.”
Moderator Margaret Brennan asked Vance whether he agreed that Congress holds the “purse strings” and would therefore need to support “many of the changes” his running mate, former President Donald Trump, would implement to solve the border crisis.
Vance said that most of the work a Trump-Vance administration would do to solve the border crisis created by the Biden-Harris administration involves “empowering law enforcement to do their job.”
“Most of this is about the president and the vice president empowering our law enforcement to say, ‘if you try to come across the border illegally, you’ve got to stay in Mexico. You’ve got to go back through proper channels,’” Vance said. “Now Gov. Walz brought up the community of Springfield. … In Springfield, Ohio, and in communities all across this country, you’ve got schools that are overwhelmed. You’ve got hospitals that are overwhelmed. You’ve got housing that is totally unaffordable because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans for scarce homes.”
Walz contended, in part, that “blaming migrants for everything” wasn’t a solution.
After Walz concluded his answer, Brennan said: “Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, Temporary Protected
