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John Fetterman: “We can't pretend that we can take care of if there's 300,000…”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Published | Video Starts at 25:32

And sometimes that's put me at the odds of my party and my base to assume that I've changed my values. And that's never changed. That's never changed. Two things must be true. Because We can't pretend that we can take care of if there's 300,000 people showing up every month. not once a year, every month. And that's a truth. And it was appropriate. And now trying to find a way forward when we both represent the most purple part of America. (25:32–25:38)

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Asserts that 300,000 people are arriving at the U.S. border every month.

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