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During a Fox News appearance this week, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman stressed that it shouldn’t be controversial for his fellow Democrats to understand illegal immigrants with criminal records need to be removed from the country.

The Laken Riley Act, a bill requiring federal immigration officials to detain illegal immigrants with theft-related crimes, has passed the House and is currently with the Senate.

Host Bret Baier asked Fetterman to respond to Democratic colleague Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) who said that the bill would “demonize immigrants.”

“I have a lot of enormous respect for my colleague in the House, but I just happen to disagree on this. For me, just like my friend and colleague in the Senate, like it’s really common sense. I’d like to remind everybody that we have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have [been] convicted of crimes,” Fetterman said.

“And why? I don’t know why,” Fetterman added. “Who wants to defend that to allow them to remain in our nation? Now, if you’re here illegally and you’re committing crimes and those things, I don’t know why anybody thinks that it’s controversial that they all need to go.”

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159 House Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act this week.

“I’ve been in this same chair, and I was arguing about a year ago saying that ‘You can be pro-immigration, but we need a secure border,’” Fetterman said.

“We have a serious issue here on the border, and we have to address that. We can be pro-immigration, and I really believe we should protect the dreamers,” Fetterman added. “But I don’t know why it’s controversial that we need to deport any migrants here, illegal, that are engaging in [these] kinds of criminal activity. I don’t know why that’s controversial to anybody.”