Vice President JD Vance told the truth with characteristic bluntness recently when he said, “Just because we were founded by immigrants doesn’t mean that 240 years later, we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.”

He was speaking on CBS’s Sunday talk show Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan about birthright citizenship and President Donald Trump’s order that federal agencies cease issuing citizenship papers to children of illegal immigrants or other foreigners temporarily in the United States.