India, Oct. 30 -- Raising the US administration's anti-immigration pitch, Vice President JD Vance said that it is his job to look out for the people of the US and not of the whole world as he called for a slowdown in legal immigration.

"Just because ten people or a hundred people entered America legally and contributed to the US, does that mean we are committed to let in a million or a hundred million a year in the future?" he said in response to a question.

"There's too many people who want to come to the United States of America - and my job as Vice President is not to look out for the interests of the whole world, it's to look out for the people of the United States," he continued as the crowd cheered loudly.

Vance was speaking at t...