Former West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has urged Democrats to acknowledge their error in advocating for open border policies.
Speaking to Brian Kilmeade of “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Manchin said the Biden administration “should never” have opened the southern border.
“It’s a shame, and it’s disgusting,” he told Kilmeade. “The bottom line is, Americans want a secure border, and Democrats just ought to say, ‘We made a mistake. I’m so sorry we made a mistake. We’re going to support securing our borders, and we would like for the president and all of our Republican friends to work together as Democrats, as Americans, and find a legal immigration policy that people want to come for the right reason and be able to add to this great country of ours and economies.'”
“But this is awful. We should have never opened the borders up, and it should have never been asylum at the border,” Manchin added. “They know that they were wrong and made a big mistake. The problem with the political posturing today, people can’t say, ‘I made a mistake. I messed up. “I’m sorry, and I’ll fix it.”‘ Let’s fix it, and that’s what they need to do.”
“Bottom line is, we’ve got to put a stop to it,” he declared. “The federal government, the president’s the leader. He’s our president. He is the leader of the free world. He has to show how we can work together, make an effort to try to work together, and then move forward and take the force and use the force that’s needed. It’s a shame the Democrats cannot come to grips.”
Manchin, who has become an Independent, previously called the Democratic Party “toxic.”
