“Trump was right”: Democrat John Kerry says that his party and Biden allowed the “siege” of migrants to the US border.

Democrats have also discussed how Trump's recent attempts should be addressed at the national level of stopping and deporting the undocumented.

“The first thing any president, or anyone who occupies a public office, is that without a protected border there is no nation,” Kerry told the BBC special correspondent James Naughtie.

“I would like President Biden to have said more often: 'I will enforce the law.'”

Such words have been said by Trump during their campaigns and were part of the political platform of the Republican Party for the 2024 elections.

The Democrats, many of whom advocate more flexible immigration laws, tried in the campaign to denounce Trump's positions on immigration as discriminatory.

According to Kerry, that was a mistake: “Trump was right,” Kerry said. “The problem is that we should all have been right.”

In the first six months of Trump's second term, the crossings of undocumented by the border between the United States and Mexico have descended to almost record levels, although the downward trend had already begun since the last year of the presidency of Biden, after the Democrats hardened some asylum rules.

The Trump government has now focused its approach to the location, detention and deportation of undocumented migrants throughout the United States, including those who have resided in the country for many years.

Trump's policy has caused mass demonstrations in some cities, including Democratic towns such as Los Angeles, where federal agents have carried out more aggressive actions.

A few days ago, armed agents and 90 soldiers of the California National Guard carried out an operation in the Los Angeles MacArthur Park, a meeting place for the communities of nearby immigrants. The officials combed the park on foot, on horseback and in armored vehicles.

“For me, this is another example of how the government is increasing chaos by deploying what seemed like a military operation in an American city,” said the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, in an improvised press conference near the park.

“It can be interpreted as you want, but in my opinion, it is a political agenda to cause fear and terror.”

On Tuesday, Los Angeles and seven other cities in California joined a lawsuit against the Trump government, claiming that federal migration control measures are illegal. The California government has submitted a letter in support of the demand.

Rob Bonta, State Attorney General, issued a statement in which he denounced what he described as “a cruel and familiar pattern of attacks against our immigrant communities by an administration that feeds on fear and division.”

The legal battles echo the tactics used by the Democrats during Trump's first presidential period (2017-2021), when the Republican policy of separating migrant families that crossed the border generated a generalized indignation throughout the country.

However, these concerns faded and, in 2024, the strict application of immigration laws was once again one of the main issues of debate of Republicans.

The Trump government seems to be focused on the issue of migration, despite the decline in supporting its policies in the latest public opinion surveys.

When asked on Wednesday about the pressure of the Democrats in Congress to approve a law that prohibits immigration agents hiding their identity, Trump said his political rivals had lost their way.

“This is the problem of Democrats,” he said. “They have many bad ideas in their heads. They have lost confidence and have become a bit deranged.”

Of course, Democrats are accustomed to Trump's derogatory criticism.

But some, among them veterans of the party like Kerry, are becoming increasingly critical and argue that they have given Trump an opportunity to launch their political blows.

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