Former President Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, acknowledged in a Thursday interview that President Donald Trump was “right” about the border, admitting that Democrats had allowed it to fall into disarray.
“The first thing any president should say, any president, or anybody in public life, is, without a border protected, you don’t have a nation — I believe that. If you’re going to define your nation, you have to have a border that means something,” Kerry said during an interview on BBC’s “Reflections” podcast. “We have a system. I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, ‘I’m going to enforce the law.'”
Kerry served as Secretary of State under former President Barack Obama and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004—losing to George W. Bush. BBC correspondent James Naughtie, during the interview, noted that Trump would likely seize on Kerry’s comments to claim he was right about the border issue.
“He was right,” Kerry responded. “The problem is we all should have been right. Everybody should have been right, doing the same thing, all moving in the same direction.”
Kerry previously mentioned that he informed Biden about the Democratic Party’s failure regarding immigration. “They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged, under siege,” Kerry said. The former Secretary of State mentioned that Democrats endorsed an immigration bill opposed by several Republicans, including Trump.
