'Dawg, your in-laws speak another language!': JD Vance hammered over anti-migrant remark

Vice President JD Vance recently implied that it was “totally reasonable” for Americans to want their neighbors to speak the same language as them, remarks that were pounced on Sunday by critics who pointed to Vance’s own extended family, many of whom likely speak English as a second language, if at all.

“You have, let's say, a family of five that you've known for five years [that] moves out of the house… and then what happens is 20 people move into a three-bedroom house from a totally different culture, totally different ways of interacting,” Vance said, speaking with the New York Post recently on its “Pod Force One” podcast.

“We can respect their dignity while also being angry at the Biden administration for letting that situation happen and recognizing that their next door neighbors [are] going to say, ‘well, wait a second, what is going on here, I don't know these people, they don't speak the same language that I do…’ It is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with.'”

Vance’s comments drew the attention Sunday of many critics who pointed to Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, an Indian American whose parents immigrated from Andhra Pradesh in India, where the prominent language is Telugu.

“Dawg, your in-laws speak another language,” wrote Micah Erfan, a policy advisor and political commentator who’s amassed nearly 50,000 followers on X.

Another critic, X user “Akhivae, a blogger and political commentator who’s amassed nearly 7,000 followers, used Vance’s own words against him in suggesting that he didn’t want to live next to his own extended family, posting alongside his comments a photo of Vance with dozens of members of who are presumably his wife’s family.