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Fetterman bluntly admits ‘I’m not a progressive’ as he angers far-left with stances on Israel, immigration


Gabriel Hays By Gabriel Hays Fox News | Published December 15, 2023 1:22pm EST

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After months of left-wing frustration with Sen. John Fetterman’s, D-Penn., over his pro-Israel stance, the lawmaker officially declared he does not align with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

In an interview with NBC News, the freshman U.S. senator said, “I’m not a progressive,” and explained how he differs with leftists in the party on the subjects of Israel and illegal immigration.

“I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well,” Fetterman said.

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During a recent interview with NBC News, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., declared he’s “not a progressive.” (Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fetterman’s words come after weeks of him taking notably non-leftist positions on hot topics of the day. Where many in the party have sympathized with the Palestinian’s struggles amid the Israel-Hamas War and have called for a “cease-fire” in the conflict, Fetterman has openly supported Israel’s right to defend itself, and has even mocked progressive protesters demanding he speak out against Israel’s war effort. That’s earned the ire of some of the far-left voices in the party and even former staffers who say they feel betrayed.

Separating from Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on the issue, NBC noted, “Fetterman’s fierce and unwavering support for Israel breaks sharply with demands by Sanders to withdraw U.S. military aid and has drawn searing criticism from the left as the Palestinian death toll soars amid the Israeli government’s bombing campaign in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.”

He also has freely criticized his party for not pushing out Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who was federally indicted for alleged involvement in a bribery scheme, in addition to bucking the party on calls for stronger border security. Ripping Menendez, he told NBC, “He needs to go. I don’t understand why he can be here, having expelled [George] Santos. But I’m sure there might be a very innocent explanation of having gold bars in your mattress and overstuffed envelopes of cash.”

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Sen. John Fetterman has broken with the far left in his party by denouncing pro-Palestinian protesters on multiple occasions.  (Getty Images // Fox News Digital)

The outlet also mentioned his unique stance on immigration. 

“Fetterman insisted he can be pro-immigration while also favoring policies to restrict the flow of migration to manageable levels, disagreeing with progressives who oppose new limits on asylum and bash some of the ideas in the negotiations as cruel,” NBC reported.

He told NBC, “It’s a reasonable conversation — until somebody can say there’s an explanation on what we can do when 270,000 people are being encountered on the border, not including the ones, of course, that we don’t know about.”

“To put that in reference, that is essentially the size of Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania,” he added.

He continues to vote with President Biden’s policies the vast majority of the time, however.

Fetterman was elected last year after a difficult 2022 race made more complicated by a stroke that nearly killed him and continues to make it difficult for him to process conversations. He also suffered from depression as a result and had to check into a hospital shortly after taking office this year.

Left-wing outlet The New Republic wrote Friday that Fetterman had “officially divorced himself from the progressive movement.”

However, his chief of staff Adam Jentleson said he’s “always had” these positions. 

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“He’s just being consistent,” Jentleson told NBC News, adding, “He spent the entire campaign telling people he wasn’t a down-the-line lefty.”

Gabriel Hays is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. 

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Illegal immigrant arrests break all-time record during Biden’s border crisis: Report


Reported by CHRIS PANDOLFO | October 20, 2021

Read more at https://www.conservativereview.com/illegal-immigrant-arrests-break-all-time-record-during-biden-s-border-crisis-report-theblaze-2655334012.html/

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made the highest number of illegal immigrant arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border ever recorded in the last year, according to a report.

As-yet unpublished CBP data reported by the Washington Post indicates more than 1.7 million border arrests were made in the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September. The surge of illegal immigration began last year but reached its peak in July and August, when more than 200,000 migrants were taken into custody by U.S. law enforcement each month.

Arrests made in the last fiscal year break a record set in 1986, when President Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill that granted amnesty and a pathway to U.S. citizenship for migrants who entered the country illegally before 1982. In that year, Border Patrol made 1.69 million arrests, the Post reported.

The most Border Patrol apprehensions were made in the Rio Grande Valley sector, where 549,000 arrests were made. Another 259,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended in the Del Rio sector.

This record-breaking surge of illegal immigration began after President Joe Biden won the White House, promising on the campaign trail to reverse former President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policies. After taking office, Biden stopped construction of Trump’s border wall, ended the “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum-seekers, and announced a 100-day pause on most deportations.

Republican critics of the president say reversing Trump’s policies and promising to pass widespread amnesty for illegal immigrants has incentivized the surge in migration from Central and South America. Republicans have repeatedly sought to have Biden administration officials label the surge a “crisis,” to no avail.

Most recently, Biden’s CBP director nominee Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson police, Arizona, was pressed by Republican senators on the surge of migrants crossing the southern border. Though Magnus said the surge was a “significant challenge” and the numbers were “very high,” he would not use the word “crisis.”

“If we spent a little less time debating on what the terminology is and perhaps a little more time trying to fix a broken system and working together, we could address what I’ve already acknowledged is one of the most serious problems that we face right now in our nation,” Magnus said.

Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the administration’s efforts to secure the border and address the “root causes” of illegal immigration, but the Post acknowledged her strategy has “had little to no measurable effect.”

Most migrants apprehended last year were Mexican nationals, which accounted for 608,000 of the arrests. The second largest group of migrants were from outside Mexico and Central America, which included Haitians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Cubans, Brazilians, and migrants from dozens of other nations, accounting for 367,000 arrests.

Arrests of migrants from Honduras (309,000), Guatemala (279,000) and El Salvador (96,000) made up the remaining apprehensions.

The Post reported that more than 1.3 million illegal immigrants have been taken into custody since Biden assumed office in January.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is facing legal challenges to its about-face on Trump’s policies. The administration is currently negotiating with Mexico to temporarily reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy after a federal court determined Biden had acted illegally in ending the policy. The president’s attempt to pause deportations was also blocked in federal court.

One Trump policy Biden has continued to enforce is the Title 42 public health policy to rapidly “expel” adult border crossers because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the administration is under fire from immigration activists angered by the policy, who staged a virtual walkout last weekend during a meeting with White House policy advisers.

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