JD Vance says deporting 20 million people is part of the solution to high housing costs [Video]

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump‘s VP pick, has made his hawkish views on immigration central to his transformed political persona.

He was once skeptical of Trump’s stances on immigration and its impact on the economy. “I don’t think if you build a great Mexican wall, all of a sudden, all of these steel mill jobs are going to come back to southern Ohio, but it at least gives people something to latch onto,” Vance said in September 2016.

But shortly thereafter, Trump beat the odds and won the 2016 election. Since then, Vance has radically changed his tune. Now, he even cites Trump’s campaign promise to deport between 15 and 20 million people as a way to address the nation’s housing affordability crisis.

In a tweet responding to the allegation that conservatives have few plans to address rising housing costs, Vance argued that cracking down on immigration would go a long way.

“Not having …