Immigration makes its first appearance in the VP debate

Published October 5, 2016 3:52am ET



Immigration didn’t come up at all in the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but that changed when vice presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence met in Virginia Tuesday night.

Donald Trump’s laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in this country,” said Pence. “We’ve been talking it to death for 20 years. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to continue the policies of open borders, amnesty, catch and release, sanctuary cities, all the things that are driving — that are driving wages down in this country, senator, and also too often with criminal aliens in the country, it’s bringing heartbreak.”

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