2024 Vice Presidential debate: Gov. Tim Walz vs. Sen. JD Vance: on Immigration

JD Vance: Illegal migrants use CBP One app to apply for asylum

VANCE: In Springfield and all across this country, you've got schools and 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. The people that I'm most worried about in Springfield, Ohio, are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris's open border.

WALZ: This is blaming migrants for everything.

Q: To clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status: Temporary protected status.

VANCE: Since you're fact checking me, the CBP One app where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand.

Tim Walz: Matthew 25:40 applies to Haitian immigrants

WALZ: Senator Vance vilified a large number of [Haitian] people who were here legally in the community of Springfield. The Republican Governor said, "It's not true." There's consequences for this. The Governor had to send state law enforcement to escort kindergarteners to school.

VANCE: In Springfield, Ohio and in communities all across this country, you've got schools that are overwhelmed, because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans. The people that I'm most worried about in Springfield, Ohio, are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris's open border.

WALZ: This is blaming migrants for everything. I don't talk about my faith a lot, but Matthew 25:40 talks about, "To the least amongst us, you do unto me." Most Americans simply want order to it. This bill [from Senator James Lankford, R-OK, and supported by Biden-Harris] does it. This bill gets it done in 90 days.

JD Vance: Make it harder for illegal aliens to undercut wages

TW: Fifteen hundred new border agents, detection for drugs, DOJ money to speed up these adjudications on this. Just what America wants. But as soon as it was getting ready to pass and actually tackle this Donald Trump said "No," told them to vote against it because it gives him a campaign issue. It gives him, what would Donald Trump talk about if we actually did some of these things? And they need to be done by the legislature. You can't just do this through the executive branch.

Tim Walz: Congress must enact immigration reform; Trump said "No"

JDV: We've got 20, 25 million illegal aliens who are here in the country. I think the first thing that we do is we start with the criminal migrants. About a million of those people have committed some form of crime in addition to crossing the border illegally. I think you start with deportations on those folks, and then you make it harder for illegal aliens to undercut the wages of American workers. A lot of people will go home if they can't work for less than minimum wage in our own country.