ONUMBA.COM – It’s hard to say if Vice President JD Vance likes pickle or not, but one thing is clear: he is in one.
The Ohio native is pretending as though he does not see the gargantuan pink elephant packed in his living room buzzing mooo mooo mooo. And that is the staggeringly awkward situation of his wife Usha being the daughter of immigrants even as he pillories immigration with a straight face.
“Mass migration is theft of the American dream. It has always been this way, and every position paper, think tank piece and econometric study suggesting otherwise is paid for by people getting rich of the system,” he recently posted on X.
Let me graciously remind you that Usha’s parents migrated from an Asian country known as India, making them stone-cold immigrants as any on the sidewalk of Columbus’ Cleveland Avenue and Morse Road. Soon after arriving, they (gave birth) ushered in Usha into their lives, culminating into what Vance is now slandering as “theft of the American dream.”
Such characterization is over the top in itself, but here is where it gets pretty cute. When they met as students at Yale Law School, Usha’s visible Indian background and appearance were obviously fine with Vance. Heck, those ethnic factors might be the icing that sweetened the charm in the first place, causing them to leapfrog into love and then tied the knot soon after. How then do we account for the epic contradiction that’s on full display peddling his unhinged and irrational loathe for immigrants, most of whom share similar stories as his wife and in-laws? But wait. Could it be that Vance was a political mugwump who never really felt this way prior to being offered the VP spot? It could be, but then again he knew Trump’s hawkish and grandiloquent posture on immigration when he agreed to join the Republican ticket.
This is water under the bridge, anyway, though the issue awaits his political future as a potential presidential candidate.
Vance himself is morphing into a hawk faster than you can say Trump’s political doppelganger. From all indications, these attacks are nicely contouring him into a rabid immigration gadfly, often firing off these salvos to pat Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) on the back even as he relies on them as a go-to talking point for championing one of President Trump’s cardinal promises on the campaign trail, particularly to his political base and congressional minions.
But Vance is facing a daunting task pushing what is clearly a defective narrative. True, Trump’s electoral triumphs over the years have hinged largely on bombastic immigration rhetoric, which explains why Vance enthusiastic pitch. Yet such criticism is unconvincing for it fails to adequately explain why one should believe him knowing that he is married into an immigrant family. Taken all of that together, it smacks of dishonesty, bordering on outright insult and above all rooted in glib hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, soon after Vance posted that piece on X, which came as a response to a Louisiana businessman who applauded the work of ICE, he was clobbered with a barrage of brickbats from those calling him a hypocrite, citing his wife whose parents migrated from India.
And the jabs were sharp and frosty.
“Ok, send your wife and kids back to India and we’ll believe you mean it,” one man wrote.
Another man echoed a similar feeling.
“That means you have to send Usha, her Indian family, and your biracial kids back to India. Let us know when you buy the plane tickets. You must lead by example.”
That’s right, but clearly, he’s not, and neither is his boss President Trump whose own wife is also an immigrant from Novo Mesto, Slovenia.
Of course, Democrats would not pass up a golden opportunity such as this to take a dig at Trump administration.
Progressive Rep. Shri Thanedar from Michigan, also an Indian immigrant, unleashed a shot.
“By your own logic, your wife’s entire family is stealing the American dream,” he said, calling Vance a towering hypocrite.
