Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. took aim at President Joe Biden during a recent town hall event where he slammed the commander-in-chief for policies that have allowed for a mass release of border crossers and illegal immigrants into the U.S., going on to say, “no nation can survive” if it doesn’t protect its borders.
Breitbart News reported that Kennedy explained to NewsNation how he himself witnessed firsthand the effects from the current administration’s Catch and Release network that, for a brief moment, detains illegal immigrants and border crossers before ultimately releasing them into communities across the United States.
“The [Mexican drug] cartels are now running U.S. immigration policy, and everybody knows that,” Kennedy said as she spoke with NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas. “The cartels are now advertising all over the world that there’s an open border, and they’re bringing people in. They give them videos about exactly what to do; they fly to Mexico; they give them visas there … they go from Mexico City on a plane to Mexicali; they’re loaded on fleets of buses and then … they cross.”
“The only role of the border patrol is to stamp them in and check if they have a criminal record. If they don’t, they’re brought to the airport, and they’re given a ticket to any city in the United States that they want to go to,” Kennedy added.
Breitbart then noted that the Department of Homeland Security pushes those totals into places where they won’t be easily found, estimates thus far have revealed that the current administration has allowed five million individuals to cross the border illegally and enter the interior of the country from January 2021, when Biden first took office, all the way to April 2023. That total surpasses the population of 28 states.
“I’m talking illegal immigration — everybody gets in. I watched it,” Kennedy went on to say. “Seven million people have come in … no nation can survive if they can’t protect their borders.”
Vargas then tried to make the claim that illegal immigrants and border crossers are only approved to come into the country if they “demonstrate need and apply for asylum,” to which Kennedy replied by pointing out that the individuals who are released are given court dates that are scheduled for years in the future, noting they are not likely going to show up for them.
“The court date is a cursory court date; it’s like an arraignment. Their real court date, which they’re probably not going to show up to, is seven years later,” Kennedy remarked. “They’re essentially given a seven-year pass to stay in this country.”
Breitbart also reported that the vast majority of border crossers and illegal immigrants that are released into the interior of the nation are discovered to have invalid claims of asylum. Some of the court dates these individuals are given are a decade away.
The Democratic presidential candidate then stated that an immigration deal in Congress isn’t likely “until we seal the border because we’ve got, in the last three years, seven million people have come across the border illegally.”
Kennedy paid a visit to the border we share with Mexico where he stated that he saw for himself, “the cruelty to these people that are being brought” across by individuals working for drug cartels.
“They’re being exploited; they’re being extorted; they’re being raped; they’re being robbed … there have been nine suicides of border patrolmen in the last year because they’re so demoralized about what’s happening,” he continued.
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