Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to apprehend all criminal undocumented immigrants.
During an interview on Fox News Channel’s The Will Cain Show, Fetterman spoke about the recent shooting in Minneapolis, where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has claimed that Good “weaponized her vehicle” against ICE agents who were trying to get their vehicle unstuck.
“Gather all the criminals,” Fetterman declared. “They should never have been here, and they absolutely need to leave.”
Although Fetterman acknowledged the situation as “a tragedy,” he emphasized that upon his entrance to the Senate in 2023, it was “evidently clear” to him that the Biden administration was “underperforming at the border.”
He went on to share the “latest figures” from the Washington Post concerning the criminal backgrounds of those detained by ICE.
“Sixty-seven percent face criminal charges—ongoing ones… that’s more than two-thirds,” Fetterman remarked, noting that “two things can be true” as one can advocate for deportations while opposing “extremism.”
In the interview, Fetterman also cited data from the New York Times on monthly encounters at the U.S. southern border in recent years.
“When you reach almost 300,000 people, that’s unsustainable,” he added. “As a Democrat, it shouldn’t be unreasonable to want to secure our border and do it in that way.”
Fetterman has previously thrown his support behind ICE, stating that the agency “performs an important job.” He has also criticized his own party for failing to “handle the border appropriately.”
– News reported that during an interview on CNN in 2024, Fetterman clarified that while he would like to “provide the American Dream for any migrant,” it is difficult to do so when “you have 300,000 people showing up encountered at our border.”
