Vice President JD Vance sat down with Fox & Friends on Thursday morning to discuss a variety of topics, including tariffs, trade, DOGE, and deportations.
Vance said that the Trump Administration will refuse to “ask permission from far-left Democrats” before they deport dangerous criminals from the U.S.
The Trump administration is defending its use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Tren de Agua and remove Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national alleged to be part of MS-13.
Amid backlash from Democrats over Garcia’s deportation, Vance said they are “doing the American people’s business” by removing undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records.
“Back in 2019, an immigration judge looked at all the evidence, looked at all the data and concluded that this allegedly innocent person that we sent to El Salvador was actually a member of an MS-13 gang. He had also committed some traffic violations, he had not shown up for some court dates. This is not exactly father of the year here, this is a person that we don’t think should be in our country,” Vance said.
“Here’s the most important point, though, Lawrence [Jones] is whatever the argument is, whatever the justification is, no one doubts that no even the crazy, left-wing media criticizes the idea that we can deport this person,” the vice president continued. “They just took issue with the reasoning for why we deported this person. This was unquestionably an illegal alien, this was unquestionably a person who broke the laws to get into our country, this is unquestionably a person who an immigration judge had found had zero right to be in the United States of America. We do not ask permission from far-left Democrats before we deport illegal immigrants. We do the American people’s business.”
Vance expressed optimism that the U.S. Supreme Court will side with the administration as they continue to fight against the judges’ rulings that obstruct deportation efforts and more.
“You’re right, the courts, some radical left judges, have stepped in and said ‘you’re not allowed to deport MS-13 gang members.’ That’s crazy, we think the Supreme Court is gonna overrule it and we’re gonna keep on fighting for the president’s prerogative to enforce the law,” Vance said.
Watch the full interview below:
