Vice President JD Vance joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Tuesday and got into it with the co-hosts about immigration, sparring with co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin and taking a shot at the media. 

Vance faced questioning on immigration, as well as questions about previous negative statements and assumptions he made about President Donald Trump years ago.

"You talk about moral tradeoffs that result in favoring a strict migration policy without dehumanizing anyone," Navarro said to Vance. "But listen, over 50 people have died in ICE custody. There are thousands of children — 6,200 — that are being held in places like Dilley Detention Center. The people that have visited — I don’t know if you have visited — talk about the subhuman, inhuman conditions, lack of clean water, the lack of medical attention, the lack of education. I would urge you, as a Christian and as a father, to visit those detention centers where the children are being held and make sure that the conditions are up to the values that we hold in this country."

"We have to strike a balance between enforcing laws," Vance said. "We don’t want to dehumanize people. Law enforcement is always inherently not a pretty process. Especially when you deal, sometimes with violent people, with people who are resisting arrest. Some of the people that I have been told by the media were completely peaceful, never violated any laws, you look into the record and find out that those people were actually being violent, or they did have a criminal record. They had a sex traffic conviction."

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Hostin pushed back, arguing a majority of people being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were not criminals, and accusing ICE of separating families and using "children as bait."

"You talk about the children," Vance responded. "Here is what I would say. We know that, during the last administration, we had tens of thousands of children who were sex-trafficked by cartels, brought into our country in profoundly dangerous and predatory conditions." 

Hostin insisted they talk about the Trump administration. 

"Unless you enforce the border, you invite that kind of conduct," Vance continued. "You think it’s inhuman based on the reporting of one person with a political bias, what I’m telling you is that it’s inhumane to allow cartels to sex traffic people across the border."

Navarro argued it wasn't just one person reporting it but conceded that the administration did a "good job closing the border," and Vance thanked her. 

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"We're going to get you back Ana," he quipped, as the co-host smirked. Navarro was a Republican prior to Trump's rise to the presidency in 2016. She has since been a vocal supporter of Democrats. 

Vance previewed what he hoped to get out of the interview in an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday. 

"It may be the optimist in me, but I just fundamentally think that most people — not everybody, but most people — even if I disagree with them, you ought to try to have a conversation with them," Vance said.

Asked how he was preparing for the interview, the vice president said he was approaching it as an opportunity for an earnest conversation, even with people whose views differ from his own.

"My job as Vice President of the United States is not just to talk to the people who voted for me, it's to talk to the people who didn't vote for me too," said Vance.

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"We're going to go and try to have a good conversation. I hope they meet me halfway. I'm a little skeptical, but we'll see," he added.

Vance's appearance comes after years of criticism from the show's hosts, who have repeatedly targeted both him and his wife since he was tapped as President Donald Trump's running mate.

Fox News' Ashley J. DiMella contributed to this report.