Robert F Kennedy Jr discusses illegal immigration and his plans to mitigate it on 'Fox & Friends'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr joined co-host Steve Doocy to talk about the border crisis on the January 30 episode of 'Fox & Friends.'

Doocy began the segment by showing a clip that captured groups of illegal migrants crossing into the United States unchecked through a gap in the border wall at Jacumba, California.

The video is a startling depiction of how broken border security currently is at the southern end of the country, and it led to Kennedy saying that he cannot understand the rationale behind what President Joe Biden is doing.

Robert F Kennedy Jr's experience at the southern border

"I spent three days in Yuma… and I was astonished," shared Kennedy. "Between 2 am and 4 am, I watched 300 people just walk across the border."

"There were buses that were bringing up to the border that were owned by the Mexican drug cartel," he claimed, adding that the first hundred and ten of those crossing over happened to be from west of Africa.

While he was unable to have a conversation with them, Kennedy said that he interviewed everyone who arrived on the next two buses.

"Only two of them had asylum claims. Most of them were from Asia," he continued.

"It's astonishing that the border patrol is utterly demoralized. You can stop this very quickly, and there doesn't seem to be any interest in the Biden administration to be doing it."

"It's not sustainable," he added. "Whatever (the administration) is thinking, it's wrong, it's insane."

How does Robert F Kennedy Jr plan to fix the border crisis?

The 70-year-old politician and activist was confident of stopping illegal immigration from the southern border overnight.

He told Doocy, "I've talked to the patrol, I've talked to law enforcement. What we need to do is to complete the 27 gaps in the wall. "

"You don't need a wall from Brownsville, Texas, 2,200 miles to San Diego, but you need the physical barrier in those highlighted populated regions where migrants can disappear very quickly," he added.

Kennedy further said, "There are 27 big gaps where everybody is coming through. And in the rural areas, you need to restore the fences that were torn (down) by the administration."

He went on to say, "You need to put in long-range cameras, lights, (and) sensor equipment. And we need asylum judges at the border to adjudicate the cases there."

Kennedy also called for the reinstatement of the migrant protection act, which requires "people with asylum claims to remain in Mexico while those claims are adjudicated."