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The Springfield pet-eating hoax was not the only immigration lie Vance spouted during the debate

The lack of on-stage fact-checking helped Vance.

“There’s an application called the CBP One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum and parole, and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand,” he continued. But instead of being granted immediate status, as Vance claimed, migrants who use CBP One to ask for asylum appointments are simply starting the first step in a legal process that can take months or years — and may ultimately result in a deportation order. It’s true that Biden and Harris promised to undo Trump’s immigration policies and build a more inclusive system, and they did give that a shot for a few months, only to abandon the cause after legal challenges and Republican accusations of having opened the border.

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