'Chaos,' 'unacceptable': Fetterman rips Democratic handling of border in bipartisan discussion

Both Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and GOP Sen. Dave McCormick spoke successful a bipartisan forum astir the value of borderline security, with Fetterman going truthful acold arsenic to telephone retired his ain enactment connected the issue.

"I've benignant of, I've mislaid immoderate enactment successful my party. I thought the borderline was truly important, and our enactment did not grip the borderline appropriately," Fetterman told "Fox News Sunday" big Shannon Bream during a FOX Nation presumption of The Senate Project bid connected Monday. 

"Look astatine the numbers, 267,000, 300,000 radical showing up astatine our border. And, you know, we tin each hold that's astir the size of Pittsburgh. Now, that's unacceptable. And that's a nationalist information issue. And that's chaos. So a unafraid border, being precise pro-immigration, that's who I americium arsenic a Democrat."

Fetterman, who drew the ire of galore Democrats erstwhile helium supported the Laken Riley Act, explained however helium has been astatine "odds with his base" but his values person "never changed" connected the migration issue, which polling shows was a cardinal origin successful President Donald Trump's predetermination triumph successful November. 

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Sen. John Fetterman talks with reporters aft a Senate ballot connected Feb. 19, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"We are going to disagree and ballot connected antithetic things," Fetterman said. "But for me, it's astir trying to find the things we tin triumph unneurotic and present those kinds of wins for Pennsylvania and yet for America."

Fetterman bucked his ain enactment astatine aggregate points successful the treatment with McCormick, including arsenic it relates to his party's handling of antisemitism connected assemblage campuses and successful the streets. 

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The borderline partition separating Mexico from the U.S. successful the San Diego sector. (Fox News)

"What happened yesterday successful Boulder? It's astonishing," Fetterman said, reacting to what the FBI is calling a terrorist attack against a pro-Israel radical successful Boulder, Colorado, implicit the weekend. 

"You know, the kinds of, the fertile antisemitism, it's retired of control. And for maine and arsenic my person conscionable pointed out, this is conscionable rampant crossed each the universities for each of these places, too. I mean, we truly request to telephone it what it is. And present and for me, politically, being very, precise firmly connected the broadside of Israel, that benignant of enactment parts of my enactment astatine likelihood for that."

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Sen. Dave McCormick (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The Senate Project bid brings unneurotic sitting senators from opposing parties for civilian dialog astir existent governmental issues, with the extremity of identifying solutions and bridging partisan divides. The bid reflects the shared ngo of the Kennedy Institute and Hatch Foundation to beforehand bipartisanship.

"Vigorous and unfastened dialog is an indispensable portion of our ideology and having these 2 senators from other sides of the aisle sermon important issues of the time is simply a invaluable publication to the nationalist discourse," Kennedy Institute Chairman Bruce A. Percelay said successful a statement.

Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.