JD Vance bizarrely compares border issues to eating a really big sandwich
JD Vance has bizarrely compared the US’s challenges with immigration and the southern border to eating “a really big sandwich” that’s too big for your mouth.
Speaking at a Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States post in Pennsylvania on Thursday, the Republican vice presidential candidate – who has been branded “weird” by his Democratic opponent Tim Walz – responded to a question about whether Trump’s promised “largest deportation operation in American history” would require using the National Guard to round up millions of people.
Vance said that while he didn’t know, he wouldn’t rule out the measure.
At this point, the Ohio senator offered up a curious analogy as to how the matter could be handled.
“The first thing you have to do is stop the bleeding,” Vance explained to reporters.
“The second thing is, okay, well, now that we’ve gotten illegal immigration as close to zero as physically possible, what are you and President Trump going to do about the 20 million illegal aliens who are here?” – a figure that is not backed up with data.
“Well, that’s a really big sandwich. It’s 10 times the size of your mouth. How are you possibly going to eat the whole thing?”
Vance went on to describe the Trump-Vance administration’s plans to “eat” the problem by deporting undocumented migrants “bite” by “bite”.
“Well, you take the first bite, and then you take the second bite, and then you take the third bite,” he said. “And that’s how you approach the 20 million illegal aliens who are here.”
During his speech, Vance also repeated the major Republican talking point that Kamala Harris was President Joe Biden’s “Border Czar,” put in charge of tackling crossings at the US-Mexico border.
In reality, Harris was not in charge of the