GOP VP nominee JD Vance at the Milwaukee Police Association today said southern border policies under the Biden-Harris administration “make our communities less safe even as far north as Wisconsin.”
“It means Mexican drug cartels operating in our communities,” Vance said. “It means people dying of fentanyl.”
Vance again blamed Biden-Harris border policies for scarce municipal resources across the United States because he said millions of dollars are being spent “housing, sheltering and providing medical care for people who shouldn’t be here.”
“Those are the people who have come in across Kamala Harris’ wide open southern border,” Vance said. “When you take millions of dollars that should go to our local police departments and you put it into sheltering and providing medical care for illegal aliens, it is the least in our community, the least of these in our communities, who suffer the most.”
Vance acknowledged the fact his wife Usha Vance is the daughter of South Asian immigrants and said he supports immigration policy that promotes assimilation to American culture instead of recent policy he said has allowed “25 million illegal aliens just setting up shop here with no control, no enforcement and no real ability to police what’s going on.”
Vance took questions from reporters and defended Trump’s comments yesterday that the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, is “much better” than the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military honor. Trump was referencing Miriam Adelson, a GOP donor he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to in 2018.
“This is a guy who loves our veterans and who honors our veterans,” Vance said. “I don’t think him complimenting and saying a nice word about a person who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in any way denigrating those who received military honors. They’re two different awards, and I think the President was saying some nice things about a person that they liked, and that’s a totally reasonable thing to do.”
Vance said Trump supports a law enforcement policy that is just supportive of “the people who are actually keeping us safe.” The Milwaukee Police Association endorsed the Trump and Vance ticket at the event because they said they will best address policing challenges in Milwaukee.
Ahead of Vance’s speech, Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who was on duty during the January 6th U.S. Capitol attack, joined local and law enforcement leaders in Milwaukee in a press conference to discuss Trump’s record on violent crime and support for pardoning Americans arrested for their actions on Jan. 6.
Dunn called Vance’s visit to the Milwaukee Police Association “ironic.”
“It’s kind of ironic that he’s standing with police officers while he’s the running mate of a man who’s a 34-time convicted felon,” Dunn said. “As a former police officer of over 15 years, I just feel like Donald Trump and JD Vance are exploiting [the police officers] and using them for their own personal gain. Because they have shown that they want to defund the police and not support them.”
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley at the press conference criticized spikes in crime under Trump and said voters would “pay dearly” under Trump.
“But if we want to continue lowering the crime rates, if we want to continue to work to protect our families and our friends from gun violence, if we want to continue protecting our democracy, then one thing that is clear, and that is that we must send Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz to the White House,” Crowley said.
It was Vance’s second trip to Wisconsin since he was formally nominated for vice president at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month. Last week, he visited Eau Claire the same day as Harris and Walz.
Watch video of Vance’s speech.
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