WATCH: JD Vance Lays Out The Plan For Mass Deportations In Trump's Second Term - 'Start With One Million'

During an interview with ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance (R-OH) sat down with host Jonathan Karl to discuss the ongoing campaign, the various policy positions of the Trump-Vance campaign, and the plan to begin mass deportations after the Republican ticket takes office on January 20, 2025, if they win in November.

"One of the proposals in the platform you've talked about, and Trump has talked about, is a mass deportation," Karl said, asking, "You said he said he'll start with the easy ones, the criminals, people who commit crimes, deport them, but he said deporting 15 million to 20 million people, how do you actually do that?"

"We have to start with the fact that we have a wide-open southern border because our border czar set a lot of open border policies," Vance responded before being interrupted by the ABC host claiming that Harris wasn't the "border czar." Vance cited the fact that the mainstream media labeled Harris as such and that she assumed the title after President Biden put her in charge of stemming immigration to the southern border by addressing the "root causes" in Central America.

"She had control of a lot of our border policy at a time when they were suspending deportations, they stopped Donald Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, and they reinstituted catch and release. They basically threw open the gates of our country, and now we have a ton of fentanyl, a ton of people suffering...the first thing you have to do is stop the bleeding," the Ohio senator explained. "Stop the open border. Get Kamala Harris out of there and reimplement the Remain in Mexico policy, rebuild or finish Donald Trump's border wall, and you do that, and you stop the bleeding."

When asked about whether the Trump administration would "knock on doors" to demand papers from illegal immigrants as a part of the campaign's mass deportation plan, Vance explained that Karl's framing of the question is the wrong way to view the issue.

"This is the wrong attitude towards it, right? There's 20 million people here illegally. You start with what's achievable," Vance said. "You do that, and then you go onto what's achievable from there. If you deport a lot of violent criminals and, frankly, if you make it harder to hire illegal labor, I think you go a lot of the way to solving the illegal immigration problem. But look, President Trump is absolutely right. You cannot have a border unless you're willing to deport some people. I think it's interesting that people focus on, well, how do you deport 18 million people? Let's start with one million. That's where Kamala Harris has failed, and we can go from there."

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