WATCH: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Takes A Stand For Border Security - ‘No Country Can Survive If It Can’t Control Its Borders'

During an interview with Manchester, New Hampshire's WMUR last week, 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid out his vision for how he would protect our southern border if elected president. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who visited the border earlier this month, began by laying out what he saw: "I flew down to Yuma [Arizona] and then at 1:00 am, arrived at the border. And the first group that when I arrived, there was a group coming across of about, I think it was two busloads ... maybe 100 people who are all West Africans. So I had expected I’d see a lot of Central Americans, people from Salvador, Panama, and Guatemala. But that’s not what it was. It was all Africans, African men, military age, and most of them were from Senegal."

The influx of illegal migrants from all over the world is well-documented and it is a real problem our nation faces in the years ahead. 

Kennedy Jr. described this as a humanitarian crisis that affects everyone from kids to mothers. Similarly, he admitted we as a nation have an interest in protecting our borders. Kennedy Jr. described the role of the cartels in smuggling people across the border, adding, "The cartels control all the immigration, and they have shifted from drug smuggling to make this one of their big profit lines. So they are sending ... social media videos all over the world, recruiting people from countries. They have lawyers who are working with them in other countries, and they tell them exactly what to do. You get on a plane to Mexico City; the cartels help you get a Visa in Mexico City from Mexico. They then put you on an internal plane to Mexicali. The cartels have a parking lot filled with buses at Mexicali... They drive you to the crossing."

 
"No country can survive if it can’t control its borders. And we’re not doing that. The good news is this, that everybody that I talked to there said that this is easy to stop at the way it is. Stop. It is very, very simple. And they’ve been doing it before for," Kennedy added.

Nonetheless, while Kennedy Jr. is in favor of border security, he expressed hesitation when discussing Trump's big beautiful border wall.

"I am not a big fan of Donald Trump. I did not like his wall. What the border patrol and everybody else said is 'you don’t need to build a physical barrier from San Diego, 2200 Miles of Brownsville, Texas,'" Kennedy said. "'You do need a physical barrier in certain places where there are high-density populations. The rest of it you can monitor with ground monitoring.' Very, very sophisticated surveillance and ground monitoring systems. Many of those were put up during the Trump administration. But for some reason, the Biden administration, when it came in, took down the towers, and they removed the ground sensing systems. This is not something that, as a Democrat, I want to hear"

While his criticisms of Trump are no doubt misplaced, he is right to criticize the Biden administration for their clear failings on the southern border. A nation without borders is scarcely a nation at all.