Vice President Mike Pence is backing Donald Trump’s ideas on how the migrant caravan should be approached and is following the lead of the President in spreading conspiracy theories.
Speaking to Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, the vice president gave his support to Trump’s groundless allegations that the migrant caravan moving from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border includes “unknown Middle Easterners,” a statement for which the President has not provided proof.
“It’s inconceivable that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people,” the vice president said in the interview. Pence added that the caravan consists of a group of “traffickers” who want to take “advantage of not only our porous borders but loopholes in our laws.”
The remarks of Pence mirror the rhetoric of Trump, who went on a Twitter rant, politicizing the situation, and telling people to “think of and blame the Democrats” for the migrant caravan trying to reach the United States-Mexico border.
“Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally,” Trump wrote.
In other social media posts, the President vowed to cut off foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador for not stopping the caravan. He also said that he alerted border patrol and military members that the caravan has become a “national emergency.”
The VP backed Trump’s viewpoint and added that “in the last fiscal year, we apprehended more than 10 terrorists or suspected terrorists per day at our southern border from countries that are referred to in the lexicon as ‘other than Mexico’.”
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