President Joe Biden's handling of the immigration crisis at the nation's border, in addition to the rising numbers of migrants entering the United States, has created a "huge" national security threat to the United States, and the government of Mexico must be involved in solving the problem, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who served as a national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, said Sunday.
That means Biden must pick up the phone and call Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and inform him that "all Mexico is a superhighway for those people coming across and we've got to stop it," Kellogg, now a Fox News contributor, said on "Sunday Morning Futures." "If not, it's going to be a huge problem in the future because we don't know who's coming to this country and we have no control."
When former President Donald Trump was in office, he would make the call and put pressure on the Mexican government, and say "'if you can't solve this problem in Mexico, we're going to solve this problem," said Kellogg.
But with Biden in office, border communities can't handle the influx because the immigrants aren't being tracked, and that is a security threat, he added.
"If you're worried about securing the border, you already lost the fight," said Kellogg. "That is your last land of defense coming across."
Under Trump, "we told the Mexicans and Obrador at the time that we were going to target the cartels, who were not only bringing drugs across but the getting involved in human trafficking," said Kellogg. "When they come across the border right now we've lost that fight because by the time it hits the local communities and they're not adapted and prepared to take the influx both on the criminals coming across and the refugees themselves."
Kellogg also discussed the Senate's passage of a spending bill that includes $45 billion for Ukraine and said that the time has come to admit that the United States is a proxy to Ukraine in its fight.
"As soon as the president tells the American people, makes everybody realize it, then it's going to be better for everybody," said Kellogg.
And that means Biden needs to call Putin and say "this is what we are going to do. We're going to provide enough military support for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russian army infield…[that] you have got a military defeat of the Russian army or you negotiate."
Putin is a historian, said Kellogg, and he'll recall what happened in 1917 with Nicholas the Second and the Russian army.
"They can be defeated because the Russian army is badly hurt," said Kellogg. "They lost their front line units…now they are refurbishing T62 tanks that have never been used since 1975. We need to apply the pressure and the American people need to realize we are in a new fight whether we like it or not, and we're a proxy to this war."
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