Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday launched a new debate saying that the Green Card does not always give immigrants to live in America. The green card, officially called a permanent resident card, allows foreign nationals including Indians to live and work in the country. But despite the name, “permanent residence” does not mean lifetime security.
In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Host Lara Ingraham of ‘The Ingraham Angle’ on Fox News, JD Vance said, “The Green Card holder does not have an indefinite right to live in the United States.” “It is not basically about free speech, and for me, yes, it’s about national security, but also more important that we decide to include them as an American public in our national community,” Vance said.
He said, “And if the Foreign Minister and the President decide that this person should not live in America, and he has no legal right to live here, it is so simple.”
Vans’s statement came in response to the arrest of Mahmood Khalil, a graduate student of Columbia University, who is a green card holder, who was detained on Saturday for his role in protest against the Israeli-Hamas war at Columbia University in the last spring.
