Vance says he will keep call­ing Hait­ian migrants ‘ille­gal aliens’ despite legal sta­tus

Vance says he will keep calling Haitian migrants ‘illegal aliens’ despite legal status

Repub­li­can vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee JD Vance on Thurs­day stood by past remarks call­ing Hait­ian migrants who have entered the U.S. through a Biden-era parole pro­gram or who are pro­tect­ed from depor­ta­tion “ille­gal aliens” — amid an ongo­ing debate about migra­tion into the U.S.Vance was asked at a cam­paign event about why he was refer­ring to migrants from Haiti in towns like Spring­field, Ohio, as “ille­gal aliens” when many of them have come in through the parole process­es for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezue­lans (CHNV) or are pro­tect­ed fro …