Look, JD Vance is a racist and xenophobic garbage person who wouldn't be worth thinking about, much less engaging, if he weren't *that* close to the vice presidency. But he is. So sadly, his racism and xenophobia matter. So, about this: 1/

I mean, a significant portion of the US population can trace their heritage back to an immigrant who showed up in the US not understanding English - they spoke Yiddish or Chinese or Italian or German or Spanish or whatever. Th difference is that it's been a few decades now, so you can't tell.

First, it's a lie. (That should come as no surprise, since Vance's basic means of communication is racist lies.) There aren't 85k kids of undocumented immigrants in Michigan schools. But let's pretend there are: (1) Some portion of those children would be US citizens--the group he pretends to 2/