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Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told Fox News Thursday that he believes President Trump deserves some credit for his immigration policy platform, while underlining that he still strongly disagrees with the Republican on other aspects of it.
Kennedy also said the pattern of President Biden and top Democrats rolling back one Trump policy after another has reached the point of “pettyness” versus empirical advantage.
“I’m not trying to attack (Biden),” Kennedy said of how his candidacy was roundly laughed at by the Democratic Party leadership. “I have a different view of what we should be doing and what our government policies should be and the war and censorship and our relationship, our commitment to the middle class in this country.”
However, he said his tact is gaining momentum as polls show 1 in 5 Democrats currently support him over Biden.
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Former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (AP/Getty Images)
Kennedy elaborated on his three-day visit to the Mexican border, saying that in one respect he was surprised that many of the illegal immigrants entering the United States are not the typical Central American refugee, but that many he encountered from India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.
“Look at the government’s (Biden) explanation of the issue. And I couldn’t tie a rope to it. It was really interesting when I went there because it took me the full three days I spent at the border to really appreciate what was happening,” he said.
Kennedy described going to the border around 1 a.m. local time and seeing “huge” groups come over, including about 60 Senegalese nationals, whom he was not allowed to talk to after border patrol took them into custody.
“They all know exactly what’s happening because they’ve been studying this on social media, their show about what will happen to them when they run into each other.”
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Biden in El Paso (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Image)
Migrants like those from Africa’s Atlantic coast fly to Mexico City to be bussed to the border, assisted by cartels, he said.
He said those groups of migrants arrive in the town of Mexicali, Baja – which is across from Calexico, California.
Kennedy also described speaking to a Peruvian migrant family who had been robbed by “bandits”, who he said were likely ties to the cartel, as well as viewing a “rape tree” near the border where the cartels are “collecting its final payments”.
He said once the migrants are in the United States, they will be sent on taxpayer-funded flights to the city of their choice, with the only condition being that they must have a named “sponsor” in the city of arrival.
As for whether he agrees with Trump’s tough stance on securing the border, building a wall, and exponentially more deportations than the Biden administration, Kennedy said his opinion is mixed.
“I really think some of the things Trump did, as much as I was against it at the time — and I’m still totally against (like) I don’t think we need a 2,200-mile wall, and the Border Patrol people I don’t believe that either.”
“But you do need surveillance on most of the border — we need a physical barrier where it’s (needed).”
“I am (more with Trump than Biden) preoccupied with this particular issue,” he said, adding that at times the Biden administration seems to essentially rule by resentment, trying to unravel Trump policies at all costs .
“A lot of the ground sensors were torn up, the cameras were off… We could actually look at the stacks of the towers that had been stripped of the surveillance system. And I understand there was such a huge reaction in the Democratic Party against anything Donald Trump said. But I think it really went overboard here,” he said.
And it got to the point of pettiness, where policy was dictated not because it made sense, but because it contradicted what Donald Trump had said — and that’s not a good way to make policy. And we’re still alive . a little bit with that recoil.”
Kennedy agreed that much of his campaign has confused his fellow Democrats, not only on the border issue, but also on his critical view of the invasion of Ukraine, which he said was indeed started by Russia , but which may have turned into a “proxy war” in which the US is using Ukraine to depose Vladimir Putin.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
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Born in Pennsylvania, Charles graduated from Temple University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to [email protected].
