JD Vance says Wall Street Journal proposed constitutional amendment: "There shall be open borders"

Vice President JD Vance used a midterm campaign stop at a Middletown, Ohio, steel mill to announce a $1 billion public-private manufacturing investment and to outline a populist economic message. In the speech, Vance said workers had been hurt by immigration and free-trade policies pushed by corporate leaders, citing a Wall Street Journal editorial board proposal from before his 1984 birth that the Constitution be changed to guarantee free movement across U.S. borders. He linked those policies to lost jobs, lower wages, opioid addiction, and rising crime, and accused Democrats of admitting millions of unauthorized immigrants. Vance also invoked Louisiana’s Huey Long to argue that freedom is impossible for people threatened by criminals. The reference drew notice because the Depression-era senator and Roosevelt rival is remembered as a left-wing populist.