India, Oct. 18 -- US Vice President JD Vance has defended an immigration system built around social cohesion and shared community values, arguing that American citizens should be able to live alongside people with whom they have something in common. His remarks, shared on X, come as the Trump administration intensifies its scrutiny of immigration, including employment-based visas and employer-sponsored green cards.

"My goal here is to make it so that we can have a country with some baseline of social cohesion and sense of community," Vance said in a post published on his official X account. "I don't think it's unreasonable for an American citizen to want to share their community with people they have something in common with, and I think...