CNN's Fareed Zakaria Calls On Biden To Implement Trump's Immigration Policies: "It's The Right Policy"

CNN's Fareed Zakaria said during an interview this week that President
Joe Biden needed to abandon what he is doing on the border and he needs
to follow what former President Donald Trump did on border policy.

Zakaria made the remarks during an interview that airs on PBS' "Firing
Line with Margaret Hoover," which airs on Friday.

He said that Biden didn't do anything on the border during his first
years in office because "he wasn't taking it seriously enough" as
millions of illegals stormed the southern border.

"And the reason was he felt he had a progressive wing within his party
that wouldn't listen to reason," he claimed. "People are coming in,
aided by cartels to whom they pay huge amounts of money, and they're
not running away from law enforcement. They're running towards law
enforcement because they have figured out that all they have to do is
say the magic words, `I have a credible fear of persecution,' and
bingo, you're in the country legally. You get two court hearings. They
could take seven years. Meanwhile, you slip into the shadows of the
economy. So the whole system is broken."

"And Biden needs to confront that and say, you know, `We are going to
have to reform the whole system,'" he said. "I would wish he'd do
something much more extreme, like, say the old asylum system is dead.
No one is coming in through that process. You have to apply from your
home country."

Zakaria noted that was a Trump policy, as was his Remain in Mexico
policy, which forced migrants to wait in Mexico if they wanted to apply
for asylum.

"I think that's all correct," Zakaria said.

Hoover followed up by asking: "So strategically, you think if Biden
would tack towards Trump policies, he would have a better political
chance?"

"Yeah," Zakaria responded. "And by the way, it's the right policy
because the old asylum system is being gamed by millions of people."

WATCH:

        CNN's Fareed Zakaria says that President Joe Biden needs to
        implement former President Donald Trump's asylum policies to
        deal with the illegal immigration crisis.

        He says that Trump's policies are "correct" and "the right
        policy because the old asylum system is being gamed by.
        pic.twitter.com/b8VsPqf8T5

        - Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 10, 2024

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