John Fetterman is only Dem senator to stay silent on Alex Pretti shooting - even his wife slammed 'terror'

[sheshe2]

John Fetterman is being slammed for seemingly staying silent about the killing of a U.S. citizen by a Border Patrol agent despite his wife already releasing a statement.

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Gisele Barreto-Fetterman released a statement hours after the shooting, revealing that she had lived in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant for over a decade. "This now-daily violence is not 'law and order,'" she wrote.

"It is terror inflicted on people who contribute, love, and build their lives here. It's devastatingly cruel and un-American."

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"How bad is this? Even our state’s Republican senator has released a statement on Pretti’s killing," Boyle wrote. "Fetterman continues to be an embarrassment to PA."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-fetterman-is-only-dem-senator-to-stay-silent-on-alex-pretti-shooting-even-his-wife-slammed-terror/ar-AA1UYOSB

[flvegan]

1. "ICE agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that..."

Wasn't that a very recent quote of his? Maybe not. I might be misremembering.

But if it is, fuckface doesn't seem so "silent" about much of anything.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes, he did.

Watch: John Fetterman Turns on His Own Party Over 'Inappropriate and Outrageous' Treatment of ICE

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania turned on his own party Wednesday, saying that the radical rhetoric being used against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by liberals is uncalled for -- and wrong.

"Absolutely unacceptable, terrible, awful," he told Fox News Capitol Hill producer Tyler Olson, when asked about the recent ambush at a Texas ICE facility.

Fetterman added, "ICE Agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that. And for me, and people in my party might want to abolish it or treat them as criminals or anything, that's just inappropriate and outrageous. ICE performs an important job for our nation."

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Fetterman added, "ICE Agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that. And for me, and people in my party might want to abolish it or treat them as criminals or anything, that's just inappropriate and outrageous. ICE performs an important job for our nation."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-fetterman-is-only-dem-senator-to-stay-silent-on-alex-pretti-shooting-even-his-wife-slammed-terror/ar-AA1UYOSB

[FarPoint]

6. No excuse but I think he could be under severe threats from the mob boss and gang.

I certainly can be wrong and basically totally clueless...

[some_of_us_are_sane]

13. He's TOTALLY BRAINWASHED at this point

I'll use his T-shirts (I once bought PROUDLY) to wipe my Pennsylvanian ass.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. He said that in July.

[Bohunk68]

9. Does that make the statement go away? nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. No, why?

[Cha]

2. Oh, It's BAD. Fetterman did relese a

statement saying ...

Fetterman: "ICE agents are just doing their job"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220967566

and his wife had that statement.. Unreal.

TY, she

[sheshe2]

4. Thanks for the link, Cha.

Just doing their job.... murdering citizens of the UNITED STATES who did nothing to them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. He said that in July.

[Aussie105]

5. I'm starting to think ICE has nothing to do with illegal immigrants.

A simple summary of their behavior is that it is intended to intimidate people.
Nothing more, nothing less.

The occasional 'stepping over the line' though, like shooting someone, isn't supposed to be part of their job description.
When it happens - and it will happen again - the apologists and explainers are too keen to justify and morph the events into something we are supposed to swallow and do some victim blaming.

Where do these ICE clowns come from?
Don't they have family who know what they do?

Anyhow, Hitler found plenty of volunteers to join the Gestapo, and Russia never had a shortage of KGB agents, so the evil is out there.
This is no different.

[Beringia]

10. I found an article on PBS that says they come from ICE's Enforcement and Removal operations

The surge dramatically expands the federal law enforcement footprint in Minnesota amid heightened political and community tensions. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons, during an interview with Newsmax, called the crackdown the agency's "largest immigration operation ever."

Surge includes investigators focused on fraud allegations

Roughly three-quarters of the enforcement personnel are expected to come from ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations, which carries out immigration arrests and deportations, said the person with knowledge of the operation. The force also includes agents from Homeland Security Investigations, ICE's investigative arm, which typically focuses on fraud and cross-border criminal networks.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-sent-to-minneapolis-area-to-carry-out-largest-immigration-operation-ever-ice-says

ICE leadership
https://www.ice.gov/leadership

[brer cat]

12. Fetternan is a disgrace to our party. I won't be surprised

if he changes is party affiliation.

[sheshe2]

15. He might as well, he sure agrees with what they are doing.

Last week, Fetterman became the first sitting congressional Democrat to announce his intention to meet with Trump since he was elected in November. And now, reporting from the Washington Examiner suggests the Democrat made quite the impression.

“It was a totally fascinating meeting. He’s a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely. They were both up, and I couldn’t be more impressed,” Trump told the outlet, noting that the trio spent roughly an hour together. “He’s a commonsense person. He’s not liberal or conservative. He’s just a commonsense person, which is beautiful.”

While many parts of that statement are eyebrow-raising, Trump’s suggestion that Fetterman can be uniquely nonpartisan is a strange one. After all, Fetterman was a self-described progressive for years before abandoning the title and taking positions more aligned with conservatives.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/13/2296747/-Former-progressive-Fetterman-impresses-Trump-at-Mar-a-Lago-meeting

[betsuni]

14. Ironic. Even one Democrat doing/not doing something is used to accuse the whole party of the bad thing.

Not in this case! The endorsement card.

[Initech]

16. He went on Fox News and Lara Trump's show.

That is unforgivable, IMO.