Migrant advocates 'sound the alarm,' opposing Vance as Trump's VP pick

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A day after former President Donald Trump announced the selection of Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, as his vice presidential running mate, a border lawmaker and migrant advocates are criticizing the pick saying Vance opposes immigrants.

"Listen to us as we sound the alarm. The incredibly dark vision that Donald Trump and his running mate and the Republican GOP have in store for America is a throwback to very very dark days that we have seen in American history in the past and we have to stop what they are trying to attempt," U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat from the West Texas border town of El Paso, said Tuesday during a call with media hosted by the nonprofit America's Voice.

Vanessa Cardenas, executive director of America's Voice, says Vance has promoted conspiracy theories against immigrants in the United States and supports mass deportations.

"For years, J.D. Vance has amplified the White nationalist great replacement conspiracy theory. He has echoed sort of this notion that non-white migrants are an invading force to this country and he has also expressed that a mass deportation is what we need to do,...