Vice President JD Vance warned that America’s social fabric has been put in jeopardy by “too much immigration too quickly,” adding it is undermining the Trump administration’s goal of preserving a unified nation.
President Donald Trump has emphasized border security and the mass deportation of illegal immigrants since starting his second term. The administration’s efforts have faced resistancewith U.S. district courts thwarting attempts at some deportations.
“The point that I’ve tried to make is I think a lot about this question of social cohesion in the United States,” Vance said in Rome on Monday during an interview on The New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast. Vancea Catholicwas in Rome for Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass.
“I think about how we form the kind of society again where people can raise familieswhere people join institutions together,” Vance said. “And I do think that those who care about what might be called the common goodthey sometimes under weigh how destructive immigration at the levels and at the pace that we’ve seen over the last few years is to the common good.
“I really do think that social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly. That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance.
“That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country where we are a unified nation. And I don’t think that can happen if you have too much immigration too quickly.”
