Former US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with BBC special correspondent James Naughtie and shared a message certain to earn him cold looks at his next globalist cocktail party.
Kerry told Naughtie that his fellow Democrats allowed the US-Mexico border to be “under siege” during Biden’s presidency and that his party “missed” on the issue of immigration for years.
Kerry added that he tried to convince Biden that immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border needed to be addressed.
“I said this very directly to President Biden, that I think the Democrats missed on the issue of immigration for some years,” Kerry told the BBC.
“They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged.”
“The first thing any president should say – or anybody in public life – is without a border protected, you don’t have a nation,” Kerry said. “I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, I’m going to enforce the law.”
Such words have been a familiar refrain for Trump during his time in national politics and were included in the 2024 Republican Party policy platform.
But Democrats – many of whom advocate more relaxed immigration laws and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants – attempted to portray Trump’s positions as harsh and discriminatory.
According to Kerry, that was a mistake.
“Trump was right,” Kerry said. “The problem is we all should have been right.”
