John Kerry says “Trump was right”, Democrats allowed the migrant siege at the border

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry told the BBC that his Democrats colleagues have allowed the US -Mexico border to be “under siege” during Joe Biden’s presidency.

In sometimes sharp words, Kerry, who was the candidate for a democratic president in 2004 and a US Senator at Massachusetts – told Biden that the party had “missed” on immigration for years.

He said this allowed Republicans as Donald Trump to gain political advantage.

Comments made during an interview with BBC Special Correspondent James Niui emphasize a continuing debate as part of his party about whether their immigration policies are worth them in the last election.

Democrats have also fought on how they should deal with Trump’s latest national attempts to retain and deport undecocable migrants

“The first thing that every president has to say – or someone in public life – is without a protected border, you have no nation,” Kerry said. “I wish President Biden had been heard more often to say: I will apply the law.”

Similar words were known to Refren for Trump during his time in national policy and were included in the Republican Party Policy Platform in 2024.

But the Democrats – many of which are more relaxed laws on immigration and the path to citizenship for undocumented migrants – have tried to present Trump’s position as raw and discriminatory.

According to Kerry, this was a mistake.

“Trump was right,” Kerry said. “The problem is that we were all right.”

During the first six months of Trump’s second term of office, illegal crossings at the US -Mexico border have dropped to almost record low levels – although the tendency down began in the last year of Biden’s presidency after Democrat tightens some of the rules of asylum.

The Trump administration has now focused its focus on identifying, detention and deporting documented migrants in the United States, expanding their efforts to include those who have resided in the United States for years.

This move has caused mass demonstrations in some cities in the United States, including Los Angeles, where federal officials carry out some of the most aggressive actions.

Over the weekend, the armed federal agents and 90 troops of the National Guard of California conducted an operation in the City Park MacArthur – a place to collect nearby immigrant communities. The officials passed through the park on foot, a horse and in armored vehicles.

“For me, this is another example of the administration that enhances chaos, with what it seems like a military operation in an American city,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Democrat, on an impromptu press conference near the park.

“You can rotate it anyway, but in my opinion it is a political program for provoking fear and terror.”

On Tuesday, Los Angeles and seven other cities in California have joined a case against the Trump administration, claiming that federal actions to implement immigration are illegal. California has briefly supported the case.

Rob Bont, the Attorney General of California, issued a statement that denied what he said was “a cruel and familiar model of attacks against our immigrant communities of an administration that thrives on fear and division.”

Refusal and legal battles sound the tactics that Democrats relied on during Trump’s first presidential mandate when Republican migrant families, who crossed the US and Mexico border, generated broad national outrage.

However, such fears faded and by 2024 the strict immigration immigration has again become a top Republican conversation.

The Trump Administration seems to continue to welcome an immigration – an issue in which, despite the known support in recent studies of public opinion, they believe that they still have the upper hand.

Asked Wednesday for the impetus of Democrats in the congress on legislation forbidding immigration authorities to conceal their identity, Trump said the opposition party had lost its path.

“This is the problem with the Democrats,” he said. “They have many bad things that happen in their heads. They have lost their confidence and become somewhat destroyed.”

Democrats are used for ridiculous Trump criticism, of course. But some – including party elders like Carrie – are becoming more and more voiced, claiming to have given Trump an opening to land his political blows.

He is reflected on the BBC Radio 4 on July 10 at 09:30 BST.

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