The Daily Signal - Largest ICE Operation in U.S. History, Fetterman Slams Democrats Amid Approval Crisis | June 3, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. The Trump administration completes the largest single-state immigration enforcement action in U.S. history. The two Pennsylvania senators, Democrat John Federman and Republican Dave McCormick, find common ground amid a crisis point for the Democrats in the polls. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Tuesday, June 3, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10.

Starting point is 00:00:56 Nearly 1,500 illegal aliens, including foreign fugitives, murderers, and child predators were arrested in Massachusetts during Operation Patriot, a month-long immigration enforcement action by Immigration Customs Enforcement, FBI Boston, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Enforcement Division of Boston, the Drug Enforcement Agency of New England, and the State Department. Specifically, according to FBI Boston, 1,461 illegal aliens were arrested. 790 of those had significant criminal convictions or charges. Here's a quick overview from Todd Lyons, acting ICE director. No, and Dana, it was a great operation, and the fact that it was over the course of a month really shows the commitment of the men and women of ICE here in Massachusetts and all over New England, and we took a whole of government approach. We used all of our partners to include diplomatic security, the U.S. Marshal Service,

Starting point is 00:01:53 ATF, FBI, DEA, to really locate and arrest these criminal aliens. One highlight for this operation is the fact that it was successful because we worked with our joint partners in a sanctuary state like Massachusetts where it's extremely difficult. Where we had Operation Tidal Wave last month in Florida, there was a week-long operation working with our state partners. That's a state that cooperates with us. Here in Massachusetts, we don't have any cooperation from the local departments or from the state, which makes it extremely difficult for ICE to get out there and find these bad guys. At a press conference later in the afternoon, Lions actually took the microphone back from a press secretary who had just taken the podium after a reporter asked why the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agents wore masks during operations. I'm going to answer the mask question. So, no, no, not the mask. The mask. So a lot of agencies were invited to come out two weeks ago in Los Angeles where we ran an opportunity.

Starting point is 00:02:56 where ICE officers were doxed. So let's just say that again. People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves. So I'm sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don't like what immigration enforcement is. They are wearing those masks because we were in an operation with the Secret Service. we arrested someone that was going online, taking their photos, posting their families, their kids' Instagram, their kids' Facebooks, and targeting them.

Starting point is 00:03:37 So let me ask, is that the issue here that we're just upset about the masks? Or is anyone upset with the fact that ICE officers' families were labeled terrorists? Representative Stephen Lynch, Democrat Representative of Massachusetts 8th Congressional, wasn't very thrilled about the operation. You know, I just stand in opposition to all that crap. I got to tell you, it's just, you know, this president and this administration is dragging this country down, down every single day in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of its own citizens. You know, the people he has assembled in his administration are a goddamn disgrace. Disgrace.

Starting point is 00:04:20 It will take years, maybe decades, to repair the damage that Donald Trump and that group of moral. and buffoons is doing to this country each and every day. While rare, there are a few Democrats in Congress who appear to be supportive of enforcing border measures and a more strict immigration policy. One of these would be Democrat Senator John Federman of Pennsylvania, who joined Republican Senator Dave McCormick for a combined town hall yesterday. Federman made it a priority to criticize the Biden administration's handling of the catastrophe down at the U.S. southern border.

Starting point is 00:04:55 A lot. I mean, there was that joke or that quote. It's like, hey, now, after a couple billions, that might matter sometime. And now we're talking $37 trillion. And now that's a significant danger for our nation's future, honestly, as well. But if I had to find something in that, the big, beautiful bill that I could support that, and that's the mistake that our party made, and that's the border. I absolutely support those kinds of investment to make our border security as well now, too.

Starting point is 00:05:22 Our party, that's when I've kind of lost. some support in my party that I thought the border was really important and our party did not handle the border appropriately. Look at the numbers. 267,000,

Starting point is 00:05:40 300,000 people showing up at our border and we can all agree that's roughly the size of Pittsburgh. Now that's unacceptable and that's national security issue and that's chaos. So a secure border being very pro-immigration, that's as I am as a Democrat.

Starting point is 00:05:55 it's like trying to think two things must be true. 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. and during the middle of all of it, it's like we are going to disagree and vote on different

Starting point is 00:06:31 things. But for me, it's about trying to find things we can win together and deliver those kinds of wins for Pennsylvania and ultimately for America. Additionally, the Republican and Democrat Senator found common ground on the condemnation of anti-Semitism, like the Islamic terror attack in Colorado, as well as the Marxist attack in Washington, D.C. You know, this is something that I'm terribly worried about. the growth of anti-Semitism here in our country, as something I know Senator Federman and I share.

Starting point is 00:07:02 After October 7th, I went to Israel, my wife and I went to Israel, and sort of saw firsthand the horrific evil that had taken place on that day. But the thing that was most surprising was what we started to see in our nation's campuses. We started to see these huge rallies and this anti-Semitism hate, hatred,

Starting point is 00:07:23 really spewed at places. University of Pennsylvania and others, I actually went to University of Pennsylvania, saw these demonstrations. And this wasn't free speech. This was intimidation, in some cases, physical violence. A person that was on my campaign was attacked because he had a McCormick had and he had an Israel flag. And we see this deeply seated in our society.

Starting point is 00:07:45 And it's something that we have to stand up against with complete moral clarity. It's something that we have to push back on, something we have to require and mandate that our institutions extricate themselves of anti-semitism, and it's something that you can't have it both ways. You have to stand up with complete strength. And even during the campaign, when I was obviously running as a Republican and Senator Federman was supporting Senator Casey,

Starting point is 00:08:13 he consistently spoke out with moral clarity. And I think the most important thing we can have is our public officials pushing our leaders across our institutions pushing and demanding that we get rid of anti-Semitism. And Senator Federman, you've been an unequivocal voice on that. Yeah, well, I think you can confirm this. The first time you and I met was that was the fifth anniversary of the Tree of Life, a massacre.

Starting point is 00:08:38 You know, he lives in Squirrel Hill where the congregation is and that we met there or no. And that, for me, that really just brought it home. I remember when that massacre happened in 2018 when I was campaigning for lieutenant governor. And now, here we are now. And what happened yesterday in Boulder, it's astonishing. you know, the kinds of the rank and Semitism out of control. And for me, and as my friend just pointed out, this is just rampant across all the universities for all these places too. I mean, we really need to call it what it is.

Starting point is 00:09:12 While Federman may have the confidence of many Pennsylvania Democrats, the rest of the country doesn't appear to hold confidence in the Democrats in Congress at large. CNN's political polling expert Harry Enten was a bit shun shocked by certain Republican growth and maintaining other approval ratings on issues ranging from immigration to the economy, despite what many have called a bit of a rocky start to this administration's economic policies. There's four months of the Donald Trump presidency that you expect that Democrats have this massive lead on the economy. It ain't so. It ain't so. The party that is closest to your

Starting point is 00:09:46 economic views in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points. Now it's still within that range, still within that margin of her plus eight point advantage. for the Republican Party. How is that possible, Democrats? How is that possible after all the recession fears? After the stock market's been doing all of this, after all the terrorists that Americans are against, and Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy? Are you kidding me? This is the CNN. This is new CNN polling. How is that, when we look for trends, how is that trending with other data that you're pulling in? Yeah, if it was just the one CNN poll, that would be one thing. But take a look at Reuters-Ipsos. What do we see here? Party with a better

Starting point is 00:10:23 economic plan. Well, in May of 2024, just before Donald Trump was reelected president, Republicans had a nine-point advantage. Look at where we are now in May of 2025. The advantage actually went up by three points. Now Republicans have a 12-point advantage when it comes to the party with a better economic plan. And again, this is after months of supposed economic uncertainty in which the stock market's been going bonkers, in which the tariff wars that Americans are against have been going on. And yet, despite all of that, the Democrats are down by 12 points on the economy. This speaks to Democratic problems on the economy better than basically anything that you could possibly look at, the Republicans still hold an advantage on the all-important key issue of the day.

Starting point is 00:11:05 And that is the reason why, even if Donald Trump's approval ratings are a little bit lower than they used to be, Republicans are not out of the ballgame because they still have a clear advantage on the economy, whether you look at CNN's polls or whether you look at the Ipsos poll right here in which they have a 12-point advantage on. the economy case. And also in the CNN data does show that Republicans are gaining ground in an area that is key relating to all of this, which is when it comes to the middle class. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:30 You know, historically speaking, which is the party of the middle class has been a huge advantage for Democrats. I have polling from NBC going all the way back since 1989 when Democrats had a 23 point advantage. 2016, a 17 point advantage. But by this decade, we already started seeing declines back in 2022

Starting point is 00:11:46 where you saw that Democrats led, but only by four points, well within the margin of error. And now on our latest CNN poll among registered voters, which is the party of the middle class, it is tied? This, I think, speaks to Democratic illes more than anything else. They have traditionally been the party of the middle class. No more. Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away. And now a key advantage for Democrats historically has gone, Adios amigos, and now there is no party that is the party of the middle class. Republicans have completely closed the gap. Before you go, check the description to make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnettcast.

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The Daily Signal - Largest ICE Operation in U.S. History, Fetterman Slams Democrats Amid Approval Crisis | June 3, 2025

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