Woman Confronts JD Vance on Trump’s Immigration Policies: ‘How Can You… Tell Us We Don’t Belong Here Anymore?’

Michael LucianoOct 29th, 2025, 9:28 pm

A woman confronted Vice President JD Vance over the Trump administration’s immigration policies on Wednesday night.

Vance was speaking at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he took questions from the audience. The administration has been carrying out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and has also imposed severe restrictions on legal immigration into the country. In some cases, international students in the U.S. have had their visas revoked and been jailed for speaking out against Israel. It was reported in August that more than 6,000 foreign students had their visas pulled for various infractions, including “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States.”

At one point during the event, a woman, who appeared a bit nervous, prefaced her questions by noting that Vance is married to a Hindu woman. The woman asked how Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, navigate having an “inter–cultural, racial, religious household.”

“How are you balancing that?” she asked, before immediately pivoting to immigration:

WOMAN: And when you talk about too many immigrants here, when did you guys decide that member? Why did you sell us a dream? You made us spend our youth, our wealth in this country, and gave us a dream. You don’t owe us anything. We have worked hard for it. Then how can you as a vice president stand there and say that “We have too many of them now, and we are going to take them out” to people who are here rightfully so by paying them money that you guys asked us? You gave us the path and now how can you stop it and tell us we don’t belong here anymore?

VANCE: So–

WOMAN: And one more thing, I’m sorry. One more thing.

VANCE: Sure. There’s a lot there. I don’t know if I’m gonna remember all this, but I will try.

WOMAN: I’m sorry I’m sorry. I have to say all of this, but please, take it– I’m saying all of this with due respect.

VANCE: Of course. Please, thank you.

WOMAN: I have no intention of causing a scene here or anything.

VANCE: We’re not close to causing a scene. Don’t worry.

WOMAN: But we talked about Christianity, all of this. I’m not even Christian, and I’m here standing to still support. Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys to show that I love America just as you do. Why is that still a question? Why do I have to be a Christian?

VANCE: Ok, so there was a lot there. And I’m gonna try to respond to as much of it as I can. So, on the question of immigration, so first of all, I can believe that we should have lower immigration levels, but if the United States passed a law and made a promise to somebody, the United States, of course, has to honor that promise. Nobody’s talking about that. I’m talking about people who came in, in violation of the laws of the United States of America. And I’m talking about in the future, reducing the number, reducing the number of people.

WOMAN: May I continue on that? Bbecause when you just said you are not stopping with the people who came here legally, right, but you are pushing out policies that hurt us, and these policies are not even solving the problems. These policies are just creating–

VANCE: No, no, ma’am. I’m gonna finish answering the question, and then if, you know, I’ve answered all nine of your questions in less than 15 minutes, then we can keep on going. We gotta have a little fun, right?

So here’s the thing. I can believe that the United States should lower its levels of immigration in the future while also respecting that there are people who have come here through immigration pathways that have contributed to the country. But just because one person or 10 people or 100 people came in illegally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean that we are thereby committed to let in a million or 10 million or 100 million people a year in the future? No, that’s not right. We cannot have those, I’ll go ahead and finish, we cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago binds the country inevitably for the future. There’s too many people who wanna come to the United States America, and my job as vice president is not to look out for the interests of the whole world. It’s to look out to the interests of the United States.