It’s become exhausting keeping track of all of the xenophobic rhetoric that comes out of the administration’s mouth, but one JD Vance line caught my attention recently.

On September 10, 2026, at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Vance with a smirk on his face essentially said that Brown immigrants make America dirty:

“Two years ago, we have to remember — our nation, ladies and gentlemen, was tired. We were tired of seeing the cartels and the criminals given free rein over our great country. And we were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.”

First, we know Vance was exaggerating and cartels had not taken over America. Or that America wasn’t prosperous because of immigrants. That’s silly.

But more importanlty, we’re not stupid. Everyone knows what Vance meant.

Had the administration, two years ago, just focused on the minority of criminals among undocumented immigrants and sent them away like all prior administrations had done, we could have a discussion.

Had the administration made people who came here without permission go through normal legal processes rather than sending untrained brutal ICE agents to round people up, we could’ve talked. Or not sent people away to countries they never heard of, with no way to talk to loved ones, we could speak.

But we know that’s not what occurred.

Kids, mothers, restaurant cooks and construction workers weren’t criminal cartel members.

What Vance really meant was he didn’t like who these immigrants were.

Indeed, Vance’sDirty Americacomments echo virtually verbatim racist replacement theory white nationalist Tucker Carlson’s December 2018 Fox monologue.

Carlson claimed that “the world’s poor” makes “our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.”

Vance made similar comments while appearing on Tucker’s show:

“…they’re going to grow up in a country that’s much poorer, that’s much dirtier, that’s much uglier, and where they can’t even speak their mind as citizens.”

Two years prior, commenting on Springfield, Ohio, Vance spread more vicious lies about Brown immigrants:

“Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”

Local officials found no evidence for the pet-eating claims. Also, most of Springfield’s Haitians were there legally under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or parole, so “illegal” was a lie too.

That’s because it wasn't about legal or illegal. It was aways about the “type” of country. Always without exception a brown one.

That jives with Vance’s statements on CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash on Sept. 15, 2024 where Vance suggested he’d resort to lying about Brown immigrants if it served who he considers Americans.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

He conveniently later said he meant that he was “creating” media attention, not making up facts. Right. Eating pets. Not making up facts.

On October 8, 2024, Vance again pitted Brown immigrants against Americans. Not criminals. Kids, this time.

“…there are 85,000 students in Michigan public schools who are the children of illegal aliens… Think about what it does to a poor school teacher… and then you drop in a few dozen kids into that school, many of whom don’t even speak English. Do you think that’s good for the education of American citizens? No, it’s not.”

The New Republic reported that the 85,000 figure was grossly wrong. Vance lied again to keep his narrative going.

In October 2025 on the Miranda Devine podcast, Vance was clear he didn’t want Brown immigrants as neighbors either.

“‘I don’t know these people. They don’t speak the same language that I do.’ And because there are 20 in the house next door, it’s a little bit rowdier than it was when there was just a family of four or a family of five.”

“It is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I wanna live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’”

When a critic shot back at Vance, Vance called these “made up quotes” and then went on to defend the substance of them anyway: “what’s reasonable is to want to share a language with your neighbor.”

Sounds great on paper. But he’s not referring to Norwegians who don’t speak English.

Vance doesn’t limit his disdain to just Brown people.

He regularly blames Jews and Israel for every ill he can think. Even the mass Democratic midterm victories, he blamed on Israel. Not Trump’s horrific policies.

Every chance Vance gets, he promotes a white supremacist ideology masked in so-called politics and policy.

For any of us hoping that politics will return to more civility once Trump has passed on. That we could start speaking about our fellow human beings with compassion. That the people at the top would stop dehumanizing Black and Brown Americans, Black and Brown immigrants, Jews.

There’s bad news. It may be here to stay if we don’t once and for all finish off the modern Trump Republican party and send them packing in two years.

JD Vance clearly has every intention of keeping Trump’s dehumanizing legacy alive.

We’ve had enough of that brand of hate politics. Good riddance.