汤姆·科顿参议员的竞选团队要求作出解释，民主党候选人哈莉·肖夫纳因播客言论受到审查
2026年9月22日 美国东部时间下午2:42 / 福克斯新闻网
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民主党人称农场主会“用五个美国人换一个”非法移民工人
阿肯色州联邦参议院民主党候选人哈莉·肖夫纳在近期采访中称，一名农场主告诉她“我们会用五个美国人换一个”非法移民工人。（图片来源：Free Arkansas via Youtube – 9月9日）
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阿肯色州一名联邦参议院民主党候选人因近期在播客上发表的言论受到审查，她称非法移民工人比美国本土工人更有价值。
“我想谈谈一个事实：我们的移民系统积压严重、官僚主义严重，实际上并不能帮助任何人，包括那些想要合法用工的美国雇主，”哈莉·肖夫纳在“自由阿肯色播客”长达一小时的讨论中说道，这场讨论涉及广泛的政治议题。
身为农场主的肖夫纳，正在深红州阿肯色州与共和党籍参议员汤姆·科顿角逐参议员席位。
民主党参议院候选人在承诺不为该机构拨款“一分钱”后，就移民海关执法局问题改口
左侧：阿肯色州民主党参议院候选人哈莉·肖夫纳因近期言论受到抨击，她称农场主更愿意雇佣非法移民而非美国工人，原因是其工作态度。右侧：84岁的诺曼·格里尔与威廉·鲍尔哈特（左）正在格里尔的农场修理谷桌，2021年10月11日，印第安纳州普林斯顿，降雨威胁延误了他们收割大豆的计划。（阿肯色州农业试验站，知识共享署名-相同方式共享4.0，维基共享资源；斯科特·奥尔森/盖蒂图片社）
她接着表示，自己曾与一位共和党籍农场主就外籍劳工问题展开讨论。
“劳动力是个大问题，尤其是当劳动力不足时，”她说，“每个农场主都会告诉你，‘是的，我们曾经或仍在雇佣无证移民’。而这些人因为勤劳肯干却要被围捕，这实在太荒谬了。他们是我们认识的最优秀的人之一。”
“老实说，我们会用五个美国人换他们其中一个，就因为他们工作多么努力，”她说。
肖夫纳随后呼吁为非法移民提供合法在美国工作的途径，声称“当他们是优秀工人时，我们会给他们优厚的报酬，他们是优秀工人，会在这里消费，还会在这里成家”。
科顿的竞选团队指责肖夫纳暗示自己雇佣过非法移民。
奥马尔的新法案针对移民海关执法局，网络曝光内容后引发众怒：“非美国式”
“哈莉·肖夫纳的竞选团队并未否认她雇佣过非法移民，”竞选团队发言人詹姆斯·阿诺德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“他们还为哈莉·肖夫纳的言论辩护，称一个非法移民的价值胜过五个美国公民。”
“每一位竞选国会议员的民主党人都需要回答，他们是否同意哈莉·肖夫纳的观点，即非法移民比美国人更有价值，”阿诺德说。
2026年6月23日，星期二，在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦举行的参议院共和党政策午餐会后，怀俄明州参议员约翰·巴拉索、阿肯色州参议员汤姆·科顿、西弗吉尼亚州参议员谢莉·穆尔·卡皮托和俄克拉荷马州参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德出席了新闻发布会。由共和党主导的参议院投票结束美国对伊朗的战争，这与唐纳德·特朗普总统在一场不受欢迎的外国冲突上的立场相悖，该冲突推高了美国人的生活成本、扰乱了市场并造成了全球经济后果。（彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
在给福克斯新闻数字频道的回复中，肖夫纳的竞选经理安娜-李·皮特曼表示，这位候选人的言论被断章取义，并指责科顿不愿就帮助“修复移民系统”展开对话。
她说，科顿“整天都在翻找哈莉·肖夫纳的视频片段，试图找到任何可能不恰当的措辞或语句，以此歪曲长达一小时的谈话，并且不提供任何背景地将其呈现出来”，并指出“在此次回应中，肖夫纳转述了她与另一位农场主就劳动力挑战展开的对话”。
肖夫纳曾附和左翼要求解散美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）的呼声。
国土安全部严厉谴责前亚特兰大市长凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯宣扬与移民海关执法局断绝关系
“我会投票反对为目前运作的移民海关执法局提供任何资金，”肖夫纳在6月的一场活动中说道。“移民和海关执法局成立时间并不长，但它已经不再符合其最初设立的宗旨。”
“我不会再为移民海关执法局花一分钱，这不仅是因为人权尊严问题——还因为它现在已是美国最大的执法机构，”她说。“它的预算是打击儿童性 trafficking 组织的十倍。”
2024年12月10日，移民农场工人在加利福尼亚州布劳利的田地里收割西兰花。（桑迪·哈夫克/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
但在本月早些时候的一篇Facebook帖子中，这位深红州民主党候选人改口了。
“我不想解散移民海关执法局，我想要改革它，”她说。
移民问题是中期选举的热点议题，正如两年前唐纳德·特朗普总统竞选连任期间一样。
特朗普政府在全国范围内开展移民行动，逮捕并驱逐非法移民，遭到民主党政客和活动人士的强烈反对。
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Red state Dem faces fury for suggesting illegal aliens should replace American workers
Sen. Tom Cotton’s campaign demands answers after Democrat Hallie Shoffner faces scrutiny for podcast comments
September 22, 2026 2:42pm EDT / Fox News
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Democrat claims farmers would ‘trade five Americans for just one’ illegal immigrant worker
Arkansas Democratic Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner claimed in a recent interview that a farmer told her ‘we’d trade five Americans for just one” illegal immigrant worker. (Credit: Free Arkansas via Youtube – Sept. 9)
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A Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Arkansas is facing scrutiny for comments she recently made on a podcast suggesting that illegal alien workers are more valuable than their American counterparts.
“I want to talk about the fact that our immigration system is backlogged, bureaucratic and doesn’t actually help anybody, including American employers who want folks who want to follow the law,” Hallie Shoffner said on the “Free Arkansas Podcast” during an hour-long discussion about a wide spectrum of political issues.
Shoffner, a farmer, is running against Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. in the deep red state.
DEM SENATE NOMINEE CHANGES TUNE ON ICE AFTER VOWING NOT ‘ONE MORE DIME’ FOR AGENCY
Left: Democratic Senate candidate Hallie Shoffner, who is running in Arkansas, is under fire for a recent comment suggesting that farmers prefer hiring illegal immigrants over Americans because of their work ethic. Right: Norman Greer, 84, and William Ballard (L) repair a grain table on Greer’s farm as the threat of rain delays their plans to harvest soybeans on October 11, 2021 in Princeton, Indiana.(Ark. Agricultural Experiment Station, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Scott Olson/Getty Images)
She continued by saying she had a discussion with a fellow farmer, who she said was a Republican, about foreign labor.
“Labor is a huge issue, especially when you don’t have a large workforce,” she said. “And every farmer will tell you, ‘yeah, at one point we did, or still do, employ undocumented immigrants.’ And it’s absolutely ridiculous that these folks are being rounded up because they’re hardworking people. They’re some of the best people we know.”
“And honestly, we’d trade five Americans just for one of them because of how hard they work,” she said.
Shoffner then demanded a pathway for illegal aliens to work in the United States legally, claiming “when they’re good workers, we pay them well, they’re good workers, they spend money here [and] they have family here.”
Cotton’s campaign accused Shoffner of implying that she has hired illegal aliens.
OMAR’S NEW LEGISLATION TARGETING ICE SPARKS OUTRAGE WHEN THE INTERNET SEES WHAT’S IN IT: ‘UN-AMERICAN’
“Hallie Shoffner’s campaign isn’t denying that she employed illegal aliens,” campaign spokesman James Arnold told Fox News Digital. “They’re also standing by Hallie Shoffner’s claim that just one illegal immigrant is more valuable than five American citizens.”
“Every Democrat running for Congress needs to answer if they agree with Hallie Shoffner’s belief that illegal aliens are worth more than Americans,” Arnold said.
Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and James Lankford of Oklahoma attend a news conference following Senate Republican policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. The Republican-led Senate voted to end the U.S. war with Iran, breaking with President Donald Trump on an unpopular foreign conflict that has raised Americans’ cost of living, roiled markets and caused global economic fallout.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In a response to Fox News Digital, Shoffner’s campaign manager Anna-Lee Pittman said the candidate’s comments were taken out of context, and accused Cotton of being unwilling to have a conversation to help “fix the immigration system.”
Cotton, she said, “spends his days combing through video clips of Hallie Shoffner to find any possible inelegant phrase or line that he can chop up to misrepresent an hour-long conversation and present it with no context,” noting that “[i]n this response, Shoffner relayed a conversation she had with another farmer about challenges with labor.”
Shoffner once joined the chorus of left-wing calls to defund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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“I would vote to defund ICE as it exists right now,” Shoffner said in an event June. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created not that long ago, and it no longer serves the purpose it was originally created for.”
“I would not spend one more dime on ICE, because — not just because of the human dignity issue — but also the fact that it is now the largest law enforcement agency in the country,” she said. “It has 10 times the budget of the organization that fights child sex trafficking.”
Immigrant farmworkers harvest broccoli at a field in Brawley, California, on Dec. 10, 2024.(Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images)
But in a Facebook post earlier this month, the red state Democratic candidate changed her tune.
“I don’t want to defund ICE, I want to reform it,” she said.
Immigration is a hotbed issue heading into the midterm elections, as it was two years ago during President Donald Trump’s campaign to occupy the White House for a second term.
The Trump administration has carried out immigration operations nationwide to arrest and deport illegal aliens, drawing blowback from Democrat politicians and activists.
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Fox News Digital’s Alex Miller contributed to this report.
Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.
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