Former New York City Police detective Bo Dietl told Newsmax TV on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was "100 percent right" on stopping the migrant caravan and "Mexico has to step up."
He told "Newsmax Now" host John Bachman that U.S. laws granting asylum for people fleeing their native countries was in place "because we're a great country.
"But the reality is that these Hondurans are going to the next-closest country there, and that's Mexico.
"Mexico should be accepting them for political asylum and not letting them go through Mexico to come to the United States of America."
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"The president is 100 percent right," Dietl told Bachman, "and Mexico has to step up. Let Mexico accept them.
"Why does America have to keep having its hand out and accepting everybody?
"They'll be coming to the United States from the Middle East next, through Mexico, and we'll have to accept them for political asylum."
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