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“I spent three days in Yuma; I was astonished,” said Kennedy. “Between 2am and 4am in the morning I watched 300 people just walk across the border.”

He explained how there were full size busses owned by Mexican drug cartels, each holding 55 people, bringing the immigrants up to the border. “The first 110 people that came over were from West Africa and I wasn't able to interview them,” said Kennedy. “Then, the second two busses that came in, I was able to interview all the people. Only two of them had asylum claims. Most of them were from Asia. It's astonishing that the border patrol is utterly demoralized. You could stop this very quickly [but] there doesn't seem to be any interest in the Biden administration in doing it.”

Last month the U.S. hit a record of 247,000 illegal immigrants arrested, which is a low overall number considering many more were illegally coming across the border who didn't get caught. “It's not sustainable,” said Kennedy. “We've already absorbed 7 million people in the last three years.”

Kennedy said if he was elected President he could stop the illegal immigration problem overnight since there are already plenty of laws currently on the books that Biden's handlers have decided to simply not enforce. “I've talked to the Border Patrol, I've talked to law enforcement. What we need to do is complete the 27 gaps in the wall,” said Kennedy. “You don't need a wall from Brownsville, Texas 2,200 miles to San Diego. But you need the physical barrier in those highly populated zones. Migrants can disappear very quickly so there are 27 gaps where everybody's coming through.”

He also said in the rural areas the fences that were torn down by the Biden administration need to be restored. “You need to put in the long range cameras, lights, sensor equipment and then we need asylum judges on the border to adjudicate the cases there. We need to reinstate the Migrant Protection Act that requires people with asylum claims to remain in Mexico while those claims are adjudicated.”

The Migrant Protection Act was a law passed and enforced during the Trump presidency but is now being ignored by Joe Biden's handlers.

Running as an Independent, Kennedy is gaining ground on the establishment Republican and Democratic parties. A recent Gallup poll showed in 2023 43% of Americans identify as Independent while the two major parties only got 27% each identifying as either a Republican or Democrat. These numbers have begun to flip since the last poll in 2020 where only 39% identified as Independent while both the Republican and Democratic parties have dropped by several percentage points since that time.

Kennedy said the two-party political system is broken. “It's definitely broken and I think more and more people are seeing how corrupt it is. And the corruption is increasing. Some Bernie Sanders followers sued the Democratic party after 2016 in federal court for fixing the vote against Bernie. The federal judge said, yes it's against their own rules, they violated their own rules but they're a club and they're allowed to do that. That ruling empowered the party,” Kennedy continued, “before that they were at least pretending to be neutral in elections and to not fix the outcome. Now they have no restraints and you've got all this corporate money pouring into them from military contractors, from the pharmaceutical companies, and both parties are receiving the money from the same groups and it's rigged against the American public.”

While he is currently running as an independent candidate, Kennedy recently told CNN that he is still in discussions with the Libertarian Party leadership. The Libertarian party holds many views shared by both traditional Democrats and conservative Republicans; but from a less-is-more, small government position. The Libertarians tend toward letting individuals determine their own path in life and seek to keep government at a bare minimum, impacting people as little as possible—hence, the root word, “Liberty” in their name. Some of Kennedy's positions, such as his advocacy for strong government regulation of environmental issues, forgiving student loan debt and a desire to continue backing Israel are some points of deviation with the Libertarian party but at the same time he opposes endless participation in international wars of attrition for profit and the endless funding of both major parties by the military industrial complex and pharmaceutical companies who have captured most politicians today. Kennedy was also strongly opposed to COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates recklessly and irresponsibly imposed by government—a view shared by the Libertarian Party as well as many conservative Republicans. Couple all of that with his stance on illegal immigration, which also closely aligns with conservative Republicans, he becomes a candidate who has something to offer to everyone spanning the political ideological spectrum.

In a recent introductory letter, Kennedy made comments that make him sound like an America-First/Drain-the-Swamp Republican, “I’ve spent my entire career, over three decades, in the trenches fighting for the environment, the health of our children, clean water, and clean air. I've sued the biggest corporations on Earth and the government agencies that protect them (when they should be protecting the public). I know how the system works, and I know how to fix it. As President, I will be a champion of peace, economic fairness, Constitutional freedoms, a strong border, healthy environment, and most of all, a clean, honest, and transparent government.”

Trump’s team recently reached out to Kennedy, floating a potential Vice President offer under Trump. Kennedy respectfully turned them down.

Kennedy is confident that by election day in November he will be on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. For more information visit www.kennedy24.com