There is apparently nothing that Republicans — from the self-styled party of “personal responsibility” — won’t blame on immigrants. And Vice President JD Vance, who has spread outright lies about immigrant communities, is one of the biggest culprits.
In the latest example, Vance told Jewish Republicans in a closed-door meeting on Monday in Las Vegas that immigrants and their “ancient ethnic hatreds” are responsible for some of the rising antisemitism in America, particularly among white people.
Vance’s remarks at the Republican Jewish Coalition event, audio of which was was published by The Daily Wire, come amid an ongoing deluge of stories about young conservatives promoting Nazism or fascistic violence — incidents that no evidence has shown to be inspired by immigrants’ ideology.
According to The Daily Wire’s transcript, Vance said:
I remember getting into some trouble, not from the President of course, but from the media, when I actually asked my staff, I said, “Look, try try to look at polling that we have on antisemitism, and compare, let’s say, a white American in 2025 compared to a white American in 1985. And how much more antisemitic or less antisemitic are people across that 40-year period?”
Vance said this inquiry turned up some “very interesting” results:
And what you see is the worst antisemitism grows up when you allow the importation of large groups of people who bring their ethnic rivalries into the United States. And so my view, this should be our immigration policy, but I think it goes to the antisemitic issue too, is if you want to bring your ethnic hatreds anywhere, don’t come to the United States of America, you’re not welcome.
I can almost smell the putrid, hot-breathed racism emanating from my computer screen after reading that. To reiterate: There’s no evidence whatsoever that immigrant communites are responsible for any rise in antisemitism — especially not among the broadly anti-immigrant MAGA movement.
For example, immigrants and their supposed “ethnic hatreds” — whatever that means — didn’t cause President Donald Trump’s Education Department to publish and delete a post seemingly comparing Trump’s regime to Nazi Germany.
Immigrant “hatreds” aren’t responsible for the the various white supremacists and Nazi-aligned figures with ties to Rep. Mike Collins, a Georgia Republican running for the Senate.
Immigrant “hatreds” didn’t cause the Department of Homeland Security to promote neo-Nazi memes.
Immigrant “hatreds” didn’t force the Trump administration to hire lawyer Paul Ingrassia — and keep him on staff after leaked text messages revealed he once admitted to having a “Nazi streak.”
And the list goes on.
Vance, who has seemed intent on trying to get white Americans to turn a blind eye to bigotry, has evidently found yet another crisis for which he wants to blame immigrants. But it’s noteworthy that even some Republicans don’t appear to agree with the vice president’s logic: Politico recently reported on GOP staffers sounding the alarm on the increase of young Nazi-aligned activists, also known as “Groypers,” within the conservative movement. Not one mentioned immigrants.
As one staffer told the outlet:
“Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” said a senior GOP congressional staffer, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues.
“We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots,” the staffer added.
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