Vance says illegal border crossings cut by 95%
United States Vice President JD Vance said that the current administration cut illegal border crossings by "well over" 95%, stressing that he expects deportation numbers to "come up."
"The very first and important thing is to secure borders," Vance said in the first part of his Fox News interview. "In six weeks we've almost accomplished complete border security," he stressed. "You had places that had 1,500 illegal encounters a day, now they're at 30 encounters a day. We cut illegal border crossings by well over 95% and frankly, I think those numbers are going to continue to come down," Vance said.
"You have immigration detention facilities that were underfunded," he said. "You have ICE, which does most of the actual deportations, that was radically underfunded, really sort of in some ways destroyed by the Biden administration. We're building that capacity up," Vance added.