U.S. Vice President JD Vance addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025.
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Political commentators and journalists challenged Vice President JD Vance over his claim on the social platform X that there were 20 million undocumented immigrants in the Biden administration.
Lawyer and Democratic researcher Will Stancil called the Vice President's statement "an insane fabrication that overstates the real number by a factor of 20 or more."
Vance, while responding to another post on X, said, "[Former President] Biden overwhelmed the system with illegal migration. Is your proposed solution to give a jury trial to all 20 million illegal aliens (more if you count those already here)?"
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"You are hiding behind 'due process' while ignoring that your actual solution means the ratification of a Biden border crisis that was rejected at the ballot box," he added.
"Vance is a treasonous fool who is openly demeaning the Constitution, but don’t overlook that his claim of 20 million undocumented immigrants in the Biden administration is an insane fabrication that overstates the real number by a factor of 20 or more," Stancil wrote in response to Vance's post.
"Part of why due process is important is that without it, fascist fools like Vance can make claims like 'we need to suspend the rule of law and deport 20 million people under emergency conditions' and there’s no way to challenge the fact it’s an extraordinary and malicious lie," he continued.
"If you’re thrown in a foreign gulag, you become a terrorist, child predator, drug smuggler by default, because if you weren’t Trump and Vance wouldn’t have put you there. It’s completely authoritarian," he added.
Sportswriter Pablo Torre also weighed in, calling Vance's argument "tragically desperate."
"The tragically desperate argument that the VP of this country is making in the replies here is that America does not have the resources to listen to the Supreme Court anymore," Torre wrote on X.
Vance often gets into arguments on X, defending the administration's policies.
On Tuesday, he had a similar exchange with renowned musician Mikel Jollett, over the Supreme Court ruling that ordered the administration to bring back a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador.
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"The entire American media and left wing industrial complex has decided the most important issue today is that the Trump admin deported an MS-13 gang member (and illegal alien)," Vance wrote on X on Tuesday, sharing a video from the Oval Office that showed the Trump team aggressively responding to CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins' question about the deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
In response to the vice president's post, Jollett wrote, "No, the most important issue is that the Supreme Court ruled by a 9-0 decision that you must return him."
Some political commentators on X agreed with Jollett's view that the vice president is simply pretending not to know what the Court ruling says.
"Intentionally obtuse. JD Vance thinks you’re too stupid to understand the facts. — he’s not a gang member — they’ve been ordered to facilitate his return — [El Salvador President Nayib] Bukele has already returned a dozen migrants — all they have to do is ask for him to be released and put him on a plane," wrote Democratic strategist Sawyer Hackett.
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