Ken Salazar Says Biden Botched Border Crisis in New Book, Handing Trump a 2024 Issue
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 7
Ken Salazar Says Biden Botched Border Crisis in New Book, Handing Trump a 2024 Issue
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 7
Summary
Ken Salazar says in “Borderlands” that the Biden White House reacted too late to the border crisis, lacking urgency, a comprehensive plan and a unified message.
One missed fix, he argues, was failing to appoint a White House border-and-migration czar; Salazar writes he nearly resigned as ambassador to Mexico after being excluded from a key meeting where he wanted to press that case.
June 2024 border restrictions sharply reduced crossings, but Salazar says the administration still failed to sell that success before Biden left the race, letting Trump keep the border as potent campaign ammunition.
Salazar broadens the critique to both parties, calling U.S. neglect of Mexico and the Americas a 100-year foreign-policy pattern, while proposing a North American “New American Alliance” on security, labor mobility and trade.
Looking ahead to 2028, he says he is urging Democratic hopefuls to make border policy central, while also saying he would advise Trump if asked despite rejecting his divisive approach.