JD Vance on immigration enforcement and humane treatment: "trying to strike the right balance"

During an Oct. 17 CBS News town hall, Vice President JD Vance, who is Catholic, answered Sister Nancy Sylvester of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Monroe, Michigan-headquartered order whose members minister at the southern border. She asked how he would justify U.S. immigration policies and ICE agents’ conduct to people of faith, citing family separations involving young children. Vance replied that he would pray for her and said the federal government is seeking to combine immigration enforcement with humane treatment, calling the issue a work in progress. He acknowledged that federal agents sometimes make mistakes and said people should be judged through courts and normal investigations. He also cited about 25 million immigrants entering the country illegally over roughly 30 years, many unchecked and unvetted.