John Fetterman Tells Joe Rogan: ‘Immigration Has Remade Texas’

Immigration is remaking the nation, and that is a good thing, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told media host Joe Rogan on Saturday.

“Undeniably, immigration is changing our nation,” Fetterman told Rogan, adding:

I haven’t spent a lot of time in Texas, but it’s very clear that immigration has remade Texas. And I think, generally it’s for a good thing.

Many Democrats hope and expect the rising number of poor Latino voters in Texas will turn the state blue, thus giving Democrats a lock on presidential elections for many years.

Fetterman’s admission came two days after Sen. JD Vance said migration is turning the democratically run states into one-party governments. “I’m a conservative Republican,” Vance told Rogan, adding, “Because of what Ronald Reagan did in the 1986 amnesty, California is now effectively a permanently blue state.”

Post-1990 immigration has turned many states and cities into Democratic-dominated districts, including New Jersey. But Donald Trump’s populist pitch is pulling many blue-state voters back into the GOP column, including many voters in Fetterman’s Pennsylvania.

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In the two-hour interview, Fetterman portrayed himself as both pro-migration and pro-enforcement:

My wife’s Brazilian, her family was undocumented, and she was seven years old when she was brought here. I’m the big[gest] pro-immigration guy that there was. It also has to be true that we need a secure border, and we have to work this out.

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I wouldn’t have the beautiful family that I have if it wasn’t for challenges and issues with immigration … [and] I do think immigration is really one of our secret weapons. I think that’s what makes America so strong.

Fetterman declined to say how many migrants citizens should annually accept alongside the arrival of roughly 3.6 million American births’;

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