NEWSMAX -- Kerry told the BBC in a Thursday interview that he tried to convince Biden that immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border needed to be addressed.

"I said this very directly to President Biden, that I think the Democrats missed on the issue of immigration for some years," Kerry told BBC special correspondent James Naughtie. "They just allowed the border to continue to be sieged."

Kerry added that "without a border protected, you don't have a nation."