JD Vance: It’s totally acceptable to want neighbors who speak the same language
Appearing on a right-wing New York Post columnist’s podcast, Vice President JD Vance dedicated part of the hour-long episode to immigration, casting aside traditional notions of the American cultural melting pot.
Vance agreed with host Miranda Divine when she said it “creates division and hate” for people from other cultural backgrounds to move into a neighborhood after she gave an example of “20 people” putting a price on American citizens by moving into “a three-bedroom house.”
“Your next-door neighbors are going to say, ‘Wait a second, what’s going on here? I don’t know these people. They don’t speak the same language as me,'” Vance said.
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He added: “It’s totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’ And the fact that we had an immigration system that actually promoted that division is a real shame.”
Vance had previously been speaking about Springfield, Ohio, which became a focal point of the 2024 presidential election after Trump claimed that a community of Haitian immigrants living there were “eating the cats” and “eating the dogs.” Of course, there was no evidence of that happening. Haitians are one of several groups who qualify for temporary protected status (a legal immigration status) due to ongoing crises in their home country.