(The Center Square) – Legal immigration advocates on Thursday slammed U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s call for a reduction in legal immigration on Wednesday night while speaking at an event hosted by Turning Point USA .

Vance said legal immigration pathways are often used as a way to find cheap labor , a claim of which immigration lawyers and advocates disagree.

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“We cannot have an immigration policy where what was good for the country 50 or 60 years ago, binds the country inevitably for the future,” Vance said.

Vance said the United States should admit “far less than what we’ve be

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