Democrat Hallie Shoffner, the sixth-generation “FarmHer” running to unseat Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), just told an Arkansas podcast that illegal alien field hands are so valuable she’d swap five U.S. workers for a single one of them.
The comments came on the Sept. 9 episode of Free Arkansas with host Andy McNeill, as Shoffner tried to sell her brand of “working-class” politics to a red state that has not sent a Democrat to the Senate in more than a decade, Breitbart reported.
“Every farmer will tell you 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,” Shoffner said.
“They’re some of the best people we know, and honestly, we’d trade five Americans for just one of them because of how hard they work.”