<p>Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) urged fellow Senate Democrats to &#8220;engage&#8221; in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border security</a> talks with Republicans as the number of migrants entering the United States soars.</p>
<p>The comments were published on Thursday, less than 24 hours after GOP senators blocked a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/ukraine-aid-blocked-by-senate-republicans-over-immigration-clash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$111 billion supplemental funding bill</a> as they demanded that an immigration overhaul be coupled with the national security measure.</p>
<p>&#8220;I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border,&#8221; Fetterman <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/12/07/congress/fetterman-on-border-00130639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told POLITICO</a>, alluding to those who <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/595696-systemic-racism-is-rooted-in-immigration-laws-it-can-no-longer-be-ignored/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argue there is racism</a> in the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/us-immigration-policy-a-classic-unappreciated-example-of-structural-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enforcement</a> of immigration laws. &#8220;It’s a reasonable conversation, and Democrats should engage.&#8221;</p>
<p>Citing the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/24/border-crossings-cbp-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 270,000 encounters</a> at the southwest border last month reported by federal officials, Fetterman said, &#8220;Honestly, it’s astonishing. And this isn’t a Fox News kind of statistic. This is the government’s.&#8221; He added, &#8220;You essentially have Pittsburgh showing up there at the border.&#8221;</p>
<p>Senate Democrats seek to answer President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-bidens-106-billion-supplemental-funding-request-2023-10-20/#:~:text=Oct%2020(Reuters)%20%2D%20U.S.,Indo%2DPacific%20and%20border%20enforcement." target="_blank" rel="noopener">supplemental funding request</a> — which includes money for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and even bolstering border security — but they have clashed with Republicans who insist on significant immigration reforms such as <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-republicans-asylum-limits-funding-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asylum limits</a>.</p>
<p>Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who has taken charge of the negotiations for the Democrats, decried what he <a href="https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-failed-vote-to-pass-national-security-supplemental" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> &#8220;hardline demands to shut down the border&#8221; by the Republicans. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), his GOP counterpart in the talks, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1732763410104770688" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;We cannot work to secure other nations while our own border remains a massive national security risk.&#8221;</p>
<p>As of Thursday evening, negotiations between the parties appeared to get back on track after <a href="https://twitter.com/PunchbowlNews/status/1732891953535082520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republicans made a counter-offer</a>. And Biden has signaled openness to making <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4345510-biden-willing-to-make-significant-compromises-on-border-policy-amid-fight-for-ukraine-funding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;significant compromises&#8221;</a> when it comes to the border.</p>
<p>In the POLITICO interview, Fetterman reportedly did not state any particular concessions that he&#8217;d entertain, saying he did not want to &#8220;paint myself into a corner.&#8221; But he did reject any effort to crack down on &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; or illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children — a group that includes his wife <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/gisele-fetterman-bio/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gisele Fetterman</a> — and he called a border security bill that <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the GOP-led House earlier this year an “OnlyFans wish list&#8221; for Republicans.</p>
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<p>Still, Fetterman pitched himself as “perhaps the most pro-immigration member of the Senate,&#8221; and said, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t met anyone that can have a really crisp, cogent solution or easy solution on, &#8216;Well, what do you do when you have roughly a city similar in size of Pittsburgh coming up to the border?'&#8221;</p>

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