During an interview on Firing Line with Margaret Hoover which airs on Friday, CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria conceded that the border policies of former President Donald Trump were working.
A rare admission from a CNN anchor.
“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 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.”
“Which was a Trump policy,” Hoover says.
“And also stay in Mexico. You have to remain in Mexico to apply. I think that’s all correct,” Zakaria added.
Hoover followed up by asking: “So strategically, you think if Biden would tack towards Trump policies, he would have a better political chance?”
“And it’s also the right policy because the old system has been gamed.”
Watch the clip below:
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
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