Keystone State Senator John Fetterman continues to split with the far-left members of his own party by suggesting securing the border shouldn’t be a controversial issue; “We need a secure border,” he told Jake Tapper during a recent CNN interview.
From Fox News:
Tapper prompted him on recent criticism from the left over his pro-Israel and pro-border security stances, asking, “Why do you think you’ve been criticized by so many progressives?”
The lawmaker replied, “I honestly don’t understand. I don’t understand why it’s controversial to anybody to decide that you’re going to stand with Israel in this situation. I honestly don’t understand why it’s controversial to say we need a secure border.”
“I’ve been very clear, in fact, that was weaponized against me [by] Republicans in my race, that I’m very much a strong supporter of immigration, and you know, my wife’s family, that’s the origin story about that,” he added.
Fetterman noted that he is very supportive of legal immigration, while at the same time a proponent of securing the southern border. “And I think two things can be true at the same time. You can be very supportive of immigration, but we also need to have a secure border,” he declared.
He then mentioned how the influx of illegal border crossings make it harder for legal immigrants to achieve their move to America, adding, “And I really — [what] I think about immigration is, we want to provide the American Dream for any migrant. But it seems very difficult when you have 300,000 people showing up, encountered at our border to do that.”
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