RFK Jr. talks Ukraine, COVID-19, the CIA and border crisis
‘We need to close the border right now’
The interview also included a discussion about Kennedy’s documentary “Midnight at the Border.” It documents conversations with the multitude of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. Kennedy went to a gap in the border wall in Yuma, Arizona, in the middle of the night, where he witnessed approximately 110 men, primarily from the West African nation of Ghana, cross into the U.S. illegally. Kennedy told Carlson that he expected to see primarily Central Americans enter the country illegally but “that was not what I saw.”
“We need to close the border right now,” he declared. While Kennedy admitted that he previously “ridiculed Trump’s wall,” he has come to see the wisdom of it based on conversations with “everybody down there.” During his trip to the southern border, Kennedy witnessed additional groups of migrants cross the border from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, Nepal, India and China. He stressed that he only met “two families” from Latin America the entire night, while most of the migrants consisting of military-age men.
“They were the only ones who had legitimate claims … of asylum,” he said. “Everybody else we talked to said, 'I’m here to have a better life.'”
Kennedy added that “nine Border Patrol agents, we were told, had committed suicide in the last year because of what they were being forced to do. They are not protecting the border.”
Instead, Border Patrol agents fingerprint migrants to make sure they do not have criminal records and ask them where they want to go. If they do not have plane tickets, the Department of Homeland Security purchases tickets for them to enable them to go anywhere they wish within the U.S. Kennedy stressed the need to hire more immigration judges to ensure that people without legitimate asylum claims can be quickly dismissed from the country rather than given a court date seven years down the road.
Kennedy attributed the situation at the border to the Biden administration’s “open border policy.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
