X calls out Usha Vance's speech for hypocrisy against backdrop of RNC-goers' 'mass deportation' signs

Making her debut at the Republican National Convention stage, Usha Vance spoke about her Indian immigrant parents and how her upbringing contrasted with JD Vance's.

Making her debut Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, Usha Chilukuri Vance spoke with pride about her Indian immigrant parents. But viewers on social media are criticizing her for what they see as a stark contradiction: the heavily anti-immigrant sentiment that pervaded the audience she was speaking to. 

“Usha Vance talking about being a daughter of immigrants as the mostly white people at the RNC hold ‘Mass Deportations Now’ signs is quite the scene,” one person tweeted. 

Throughout the evening, blue and red signs peppered the convention floor, reading “Mass Deportations Now” Audible chants of “Send them back” also reverberated multiple times when politicians like Usha Vance’s husband, former president Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick JD Vance, spoke about “illegal aliens” entering the country. 

Experts said this dichotomy affirms a long drawn-upon strategy on the right.

“There are good immigrants and there are bad immigrants,” said Pawan Dhingra, a professor of American studies at Amherst College. “And the Republican Party is just trying to embrace, quote unquote, ‘good immigrants.’”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/usha-vance-rnc-immigration-mass-deportation-rcna162492

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