JD Vance Faces Backlash Over Anti-Immigration Stance Despite Being Married to Daughter of Indian Immigrants

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US Vice President JD Vance has ignited controversy on social media following his declaration that "mass migration is theft of the American Dream."

Vance claimed immigrants are depriving American workers of opportunities, suggesting that research contradicting his perspective is financed by "people getting rich off the old system."

On the platform X, he wrote: "Mass migration is the theft of the American Dream. It has always been this way, and every position paper, think tank piece, and econometric study suggesting otherwise is paid for by the people getting rich off of the old system."

Vance's statement came in response to a video featuring a Louisiana construction company owner who described a significant change after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began operations in the state. The business owner remarked, "No immigrants want to go to work... and it is so amazing. I've gotten more calls in the last week than I've gotten in the last 3 months."

The Vice President's comments sparked immediate backlash online, with many critics highlighting his own family situation.

Vance is married to Usha Vance, who was born in America to Indian immigrant parents. The couple has three children: sons Ewan and Vivek, and daughter Mirabel.

Social media users were quick to point out what they saw as hypocrisy. One user questioned, "Wait, isn't your wife Indian from an immigrant family?"

Another commented, "That means you have to send Usha, her Indian family, and your biracial kids back to India. Let us know when you buy the plane tickets. You must lead by example."

Other critical responses included: "Your wife and children are stealing the American dream," and "There's probably a path to the Republican nomination that doesn't involve throwing your wife, her family, and your children under the bus."

Someone else remarked, "I understand hating your in-laws, but isn't this an extreme response?"

This controversy follows an earlier incident where Vance stated it was "totally reasonable and acceptable" for Americans to prefer neighbors who share their "race, language or skin colour."

During an appearance on The New York Post podcast, he said: "It is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next door neighbours and say, I want to live next to people who I have something in common with."

He described a hypothetical scenario involving landlords housing multiple immigrant families for profit: "And then what happens is 20 people move into a three-bedroom house. Twenty people from a totally different culture, totally different ways of interacting."

Princeton historian Kevin Kruse criticized these comments, noting: "This is exactly the same argument and, in parts, even the same language that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a 'right' not to live next to people who were different from them."

The controversy also follows Vance's criticism of Canada, where he attributed "stagnating" living standards to the country's large "foreign-born" population and accused Canadian leadership of embracing "immigration insanity."