JD Vance’s immigration tiger is turning on its rider

File photo: US Vice President JD Vance (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: US Vice President JD Vance has conceded that his rhetoric on H-1B visas was “imperfect,” but his attempt to distinguish his criticism of corporate hiring practices from hostility towards immigrants has exposed a deeper contradiction in the Trump administration’s immigration politics, one that is becoming personal for a man married to the daughter of Indian immigrants.At a CBS News town hall over the weekend, an Indian-American woman who voted for Vance asked him why he is scapegoating immigrants for the issues he was supposed to be solving. “To the extent that my rhetoric has been imperfect, that’s on me,” Vance replied, insisting his target was not foreign workers but companies exploiting the visa system, and adding that he loved his Indian-American wife and in-laws and did not intend to dehumanise immigrants.Yet Vance stood by his larger argument: Americans are entitled to want communities with people who share something in common, immigration policy should promote social cohesion, and there is a legitimate case for scrutinising employers who exploit visa-dependent workers, suppress wag...