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During the June 27 CNN presidential election debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, Trump made false and misleading claims about immigration and migrants seemingly drawn straight from the right-wing media echo chambers.

Trump falsely claimed that Biden “wants open borders” and “wants our country to … be destroyed,” as migrants are supposedly violent criminals stealing American jobs. He also pushed the “great replacement” theory, saying Biden wants to import migrants to vote Democratic.

Below are some of Trump’s debate claims and recent instances of right-wing media making the same points.

• ## Claim: Biden has opened up the border

• • During the debate, Trump claimed that Biden “decided to open up our border, open up our country” and said he wants “open borders.” CNN [6/27/24]

• • Numerous debunks have explained that the U.S. border is not open.NPR, [6/28/24; The Nation, 11/22/23; Axios, 10/17/23; Newsweek, 1/24/22]

• • Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed that “there are terror cells here because of [Biden’s] wide-open borders — 11 million unvetted people from countries with terrorist ties and our top geopolitical foes.” Hannity also said Biden has “blood on his hands.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [6/24/24]

• • After the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo suggested it could be due to a “wide-open border.” Although she acknowledged that the White House issued a statement “saying that there is no indication of a nefarious intent,” she went on to discuss “the potential for wrongdoing or potential for foul play given the wide-open border.” Fox Business, *Mornings with Maria*, [3/26/24]

• • Fox guest T.W. Shannon said that Biden’s “open border” is “poisoning the bloodline in this country because we’re allowing illegals to vote.” Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [4/10/24]

• • Fox guest Sheriff Mark Dannels said that we’ve had “three and a half years of leaving the border open.”He continued, “People come into the country that don't respect our cultures, our rule of law, and the people within.” Fox News, *Your World with Neil Cavuto*, [6/21/24]

• • The Real America’s Voice X account posted, “Joe Biden and his administration, along with Obama, are using the open border as a tool to allow millions of immigrants and God only knows how many terrorists in to the country.” Twitter/X, [6/19/24]

• • Fox News contributor Larry Kudlow penned a Fox News online op-ed titled “Biden's open border is killing innocent Americans.” Kudlow claimed, “Brutal gang warfare has come across the southern border into our sanctuary cities where blue state mayors and governors will not, in most cases, cooperate with border authorities to deport them.” Fox News, [6/18/24]

• ## Claim: Biden wants to import migrants as voters

• • At the debate, Trump claimed Biden “wants open borders. He wants our country to either be destroyed or he wants to pick up those people as voters."CBS News, [6/28/24]

• • In recent years, right-wing media have been pushing the xenophobic “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which alleges that “elites” encourage illegal immigration to bring nonwhite people into the country to “replace” white voters. This false narrative has led to real-world violence, including mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. Media Matters, [5/15/23, 1/12/24; Southern Poverty Law Center, 5/12/23]

• • Fox News contributor Paul Mauro asked, “Does it not seem like we’ve hit a point where somebody in Washington has made a decision that there is an acceptable level of collateral damage in order to get a permanent Democratic voting bloc into this country?”The discussion was around the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray that led to the arrest of two recent Venezuelan migrants. Mauro also suggested that if migrants “were calculated to vote Republican, the [border] wall would be 60 feet high.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [6/21/24; The New York Times, 6/25/24]

• • Turning Post USA’s Charlie Kirk claimed that “the left” “won't stop until you and your children and your children's children are eliminated.”Kirk also said, “They hate those of you that own land and have guns and believe in a better country, and they have a plan to try and get rid of you.” Real America’s Voice, *The Charlie Kirk Show*, [3/1/24]

• • Fox host Jesse Watters alleged that the “far left” wants an “illegal alien nation where they can blow up the welfare state and just increase their political power. Same with the corporate class.” Fox News, *The Five*, [6/12/24]

• • Pro-Trump troll Laura Loomer claimed that “to the radical left, the replacement of the American core is essential to their ideology and their communist takeover of America.” She went on to say that Biden and the radical left view “traditional America” as something to be “destroyed and relegated to the dustbin of history.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [6/6/24]

• ## Claim: Migrants are violent criminals, and millions are coming from jails and mental institutions in South America

• • Trump said at the debate, “Because of his [Biden’s] ridiculous, insane and very stupid policies, people are coming in and killing our citizens at a level we’ve never — we call it migrant crime. I’d call it Biden-migrant crime.” The New York Times, [6/27/24]

• • Trump also said that Biden “allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails, and mental institutions — to come into our country and destroy our country.” Trump made similar claims on at least three occasions in 2023, according to CNN, which reported that he “claimed the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their ‘insane asylums’ and ‘mental institutions’ to send the patients to the United States as migrants.” His campaign was unsuccessful in finding evidence for the claim. Trump made a similar claim in February, saying that “jails … throughout the world” are “emptying out” because countries are “dumping” migrants here and that others are coming from “mental institutions and … insane asylums.” The New York Times, [6/27/24; CNN, 4/29/23, 2/29/24]

• • Studies show no link between immigration and high levels of crime, and evidence shows immigrants are less likely to commit crime than U.S.-born citizens. According to the Brennan Center, “Numerous studies show that immigration is not linked to higher levels of crime, but rather the opposite. Studies [also show] … immigration is associated with lower crime rates and an increase in structural factors — such as social connection and economic opportunity — that are linked to neighborhood safety.” NPR, [3/8/24; Brennan Center for Justice, 5/29/24]

• • Border security expert Adam Isacson told PolitiFact that “‘millions’ would mean one in eight was someone released from a jail or a mental institution, a claim too ridiculous to dignify.”He also said that it “‘strains belief’ … that someone with serious mental illness could navigate the route to the U.S. after release from an institution.” Politifact, [6/6/24]

• • Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller claimed on Fox that migrants are “above the law” and “being dumped into this country by the millions as they rape and pillage and murder.”Miller continued, “Joe Biden’s flying them in day after day, busing them in, escorting them in to rape and pillage and murder more Americans.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [6/21/24]

• • Loomer said the migrant “invaders” “just disappear … only to be seen again when their faces are plastered on the news after they commit heinous crimes like murder, rape, human trafficking, assault, and drug dealing.” Loomer also suggested that Democrats embrace immigration because they want “white America” to be “punished by being replaced.” Rumble, *Loomer Unleashed*, [6/7/24]

• • Tomi Lahren of Fox’s OutKick said that migrants including men from “Venezuelan gangs” in the U.S. are “preying on young women” and targeting them because they are “the most vulnerable among us.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [6/21/24]

• • Watters said Biden is “catching and releasing killers and rapists,” saying they’re “serial sexual predators, they’re serial killers, and they don't belong here.These are third world animals.” Watters also claimed, “Biden migrants are exploding all inside our country like IEDs. It feels like a terror attack to me.” Fox News, *The Five,* [6/21/24]

• • In a discussion about the killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose alleged attackers were migrants, Fox news host Lawrence Jones claimed, “They’ve emptied the jails and now we have to deal with it.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [6/26/24]

• • Jones also complained that people are calling “the former president crazy for saying they were emptying their jails, and what do you know, Venezuela, crime rate is going down.” While talking about the killing of Rachel Morin, allegedly by an immigrant, Jones continued, “There is actual proof of people that have criminal records, that have committed murders in their country now coming to our country to do the same thing.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends,* [6/21/24]

• • Fox News contributor Tyrus claimed,“They are emptying their jails and their psych asylums to America and we don't have asylums for anybody.”He added: “The floodgates are wide open.” Fox News, *Gutfeld!*, [6/24/24]

Claim: Migrants are stealing jobs from Americans

In the debate, Trump claimed that migrants “are taking Black jobs}: and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet.” The New York Times, [6/27/24]|

• • Research is mixed on the impacts of migrants on jobs, but some research shows that “immigrants raise wages and boost the employment of U.S.-born workers.” Forbes reported on research that looked at 2000-2019, also noting: “Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment.” Additionally, as Brookings senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explained in 2017, “Undocumented workers often work the unpleasant, back-breaking jobs that native-born workers are not willing to do.” The New York Times’ fact check of the debate says that “whether or not immigrants depress wages or displace some workers has been examined by economists for decades, and there is no clear conclusion.” Forbes, [5/1/24; Brookings Institution, 8/24/17; The New York Times, 6/27/24]

• • Right-wing media have been lying for at least a decade about migrants stealing jobs from U.S. workers.Media Matters reports from 2013 and 2015 gathered right-wing media commentary claiming migrants steal U.S. worker jobs, countering that “there is no evidence that immigrants crowd out U.S.-born workers in either the short or long run.” Media Matters, [2/1/13, 10/27/15]

• • Right-wing influencer Amuse posted that “military aged” Chinese migrants “are here to steal our jobs, our information, our welfare benefits, our elections, and our freedom.” Twitter/X, [2/5/24]

• • Fox Business host Sean Duffy said, “The Biden White House keeps bragging about the strong economy, pointing to the job market as evidence, … but a closer look under the hood reveals that all those job gains — they’re going to immigrants.” Duffy’s co-host Dagen McDowell further added: “Why are all the jobs going to these people and not people born here in the United States? Hmm. Is it DEI? Maybe.” Fox Business, *The Bottom Line*, [2/14/24]

• • The Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota wrote a piece for The New York Post complaining that “job gains are going to immigrants, and keeping young US-born men out of the workforce.”Camarota further claimed, “Allowing millions of immigrants into the country to fill lower-wage jobs means we have little incentive to undertake the difficult task of getting more men back into jobs.” The New York Post, [2/13/24]

• • Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo said, “When you look at the jobs numbers, they look really strong -- they do -- every month. We seem to have a strong jobs market. But when you peel back the onion, a lot of those jobs are going to noncitizens; a lot of those jobs are part time.” Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*, [6/20/24]

2024

Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CUPVF), the affiliated PAC of Citizens United, issued the following statement supporting conservative candidate T.W. Shannon in Oklahoma’s U.S. Senate Republican Primary. CUPVF has contributed $15,000 to Shannon’s campaign during this election cycle – $5,000 for the primary, $5,000 for the run-off, and $5,000 for the general.

“T.W. Shannon is a man of faith who will fight for our core conservative principles and ideals,” said David N. Bossie, President of Citizens United. “The Sooner State has a great opportunity to nominate a true conservative to fill the big shoes of Senator Tom Coburn. T.W.’s beliefs will not be swayed by the Washington, D.C. culture, and he will always look out for his constituents by confronting Big Government at every turn. I urge all Oklahomans to vote for T.W. Shannon on June 24th.”

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tahrohon Wayne Shannon (born February 24, 1978) is an American banker and politician who served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 62nd district from 2007 to 2015.^[1] In 2013, he became Oklahoma's first African-American speaker of the House.

Shannon stepped down as the speaker to run for the Republican nomination in the 2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma to succeed Tom Coburn.^[2] Despite Tea Party support and endorsements that included U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Shannon lost the Republican nomination for the Senate to U.S. Representative James Lankford by almost 20 points.^[3][4]

In March 2022, Shannon announced that he was running in the 2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma to succeed the retiring Republican Jim Inhofe.^[5] He was defeated by U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin in the Republican primary by more than 26 points.^[6]

Early life and education

Born in Oklahoma on February 24, 1978, to a Chickasaw father and an African-American mother (both of whom were history teachers), Shannon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Cameron University and a Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law.

Career

Main article: List of Native American politicians

Shannon worked as a field representative for former Congressman J. C. Watts and later served in the same position for Congressman Tom Cole. An enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, he worked as the chief administrative officer for Chickasaw Nation Enterprises.

Oklahoma House of Representatives

Shannon is sworn in as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.\(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T.W._Shannon_%288570279853%29.jpg)Shannon speaks to the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Shannon was first elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2006, defeating opponent Janice Drewry in the general election.^[7] He rose to leadership in the state House, where he served as deputy majority whip in his first term, chaired the transportation committee in his second term and was elected speaker-designate in his third term. On January 8, 2013, Shannon took the oath of office to be the speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.^[8]

He has advocated for identifying and selling off state-owned properties that were not being fully utilized.^[9] Shannon sponsored an eight-year plan to divert state income tax revenue to repairing Oklahoma's structurally deficient bridges.^[10]

As speaker, Shannon authored legislation to create a long-term plan to address the maintenance of state-owned properties and consolidate property management entities.^[11]

The first sale under the program to sell off state-owned properties was the sale of a former studio for the state public television station for $130,000. The next properties up for sale are a townlot in Buffalo and 5.58 acres in Marietta.^[12]

Shannon advocated a controversial measure to require Oklahoma recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) to perform at least 35 hours of work activities or be denied aid. The work requirement was scaled back after the cost of providing job training to SNAP recipients became clear.^[13]

GOPAC, an organization whose mission it is to support up-and-coming Republican leaders, added Shannon to its national advisory board in 2013.^[14]

House district 62 encompasses Lawton, Oklahoma and its surrounding communities.^[15]

US Senate campaigns

Shannon stepped down as the speaker to run for the Republican nomination in the 2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma to succeed Tom Coburn.^[2]

Despite Tea Party support and endorsements that included U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Shannon lost the Republican nomination for the Senate to U.S. Representative James Lankford by almost 20 points.^[3][4]

In March 2022, Shannon announced that he was running in the 2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma to succeed the retiring Republican Jim Inhofe.^[5] He was endorsed by Bill Anoatubby, the Governor of the Chickasaw Nation.^[16] Shannon finished in second place in the 13 candidate field, advancing to a runoff against Markwayne Mullin.^[17] Mullin defeated Shannon in the runoff.^[18]

Personal life

Shannon attends Bethlehem Baptist Church in Lawton. He met his wife, Devon (née Murray), at Cameron University and married her in 2001.^[19] They have two children, a daughter and son. Today, he is the CEO of Chickasaw Community Bank in Oklahoma City.^[19]

References

1. Oklahoma State Election Board (accessed March 21, 2013).
2. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b "T.W. Shannon Enters Race For Oklahoma Senate Seat". The Huffington Post. January 29, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
3. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b Parti, Tarini (June 24, 2014). "James Lankford wins Oklahoma GOP Senate nomination outright". POLITICO. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
4. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b "James Lankford defeats T.W. Shannon in Oklahoma Senate primary", MSNBC, Benjy Sarlin, June 25, 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
5. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b Krehbiel, Randy (March 9, 2022). "Former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon expected to announce U.S. Senate candidacy". Tulsa World. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
6. Leonard, Karoline (August 23, 2022). "Markwayne Mullin wins Republican candidacy for US Senate seat, defeats T.W. Shannon". OU Daily. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
7. 2006 General Election, Oklahoma State Election Board (accessed May 27, 2013)
8. McNutt, Michael. "T.W. Shannon of Lawton officially takes Oklahoma House speakers post," The Oklahoman, January 9, 2013 (accessed March 21, 2013).
9. McNutt, Michael. Oklahoma should sell some buildings to fund capitol repairs, lawmaker saysThe Oklahoman November 14, 2011. (accessed March 23, 2013).
10. Hoberock, Barbara. Oklahoma funding to increase bridge repairs, Tulsa World, June 12, 2012. (accessed March 23, 2013)
11. "Effort to sell Oklahoma's unused buildings, properties", The Oklahoman March 10, 2013 (accessed March 23, 2013).
12. Krehbiel, Randy. "Ex-OETA studio sold through new state program", Tulsa World, July 4, 2013. (accessed July 11, 2013)
13. McNutt, Michael and Kemp, Adam. "Oklahoma House speaker scales back food stamp work requirement", The Oklahoman, March 8, 2011. (accessed June 27, 2013).
14. CPAC (accessed March 21, 2013).
15. House Districts, Congressional and Other Maps Archived May 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Oklahoma House of Representatives Archived June 22, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. (access March 21, 2013).
16. "After eight years, Shannon ready for one more race". Tulsa World. March 10, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
17. "Mullin, Shannon head to GOP primary runoff election in race for Inhofe seat".
18. Phippen, Thomas (August 23, 2022). "Rep. Markwayne Mullin defeats TW Shannon in Oklahoma GOP Senate runoff". Fox News.
19. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon making name for himself, Tulsa World, April 28, 2013.

External links

• TW Shannon Profile and Videos – Chickasaw.TV
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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:{:{T.W. SHANNON (FORMER OKLAHOMA HOUSE SPEAKER): Listen to this: We've had 2 million people cross into this country illegally because of this open border policy. Many of them are from al Qaeda. I just did an op-ed on Fox.com that talks about how Chinese nationalists — the Chinese party is actually in the United States in rural Oklahoma. }:

:{:{And the worst that he can come up with as a threat to democracy is his political opponent. That sends shivers down my spine. Every American should be concerned when the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, considers his political opponent a threat to democracy.}:

That's a problem. Our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. Joe Biden should be ashamed. And the truth is the real threat to democracy are the policies of Joe Biden like the open border that's destroying this country. It is poisoning the bloodline in this country because we are allowing illegals to vote. We're supplying them with all types of resources.}:}:

HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): Alright, T.W. I'm going to step in for one second. We're going to go now, I'm asking my team. This is the former president.

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In the world of campaign finance, this is becoming a familiar story: A nonprofit group is launched by individuals with political connections; has no physical office, volunteers or employees; and spends much of its money on political consultants, some of whom are linked to the operatives running the group.

Also, it does little or no spending on what might be called social welfare — a requirement of the nonprofit 501(c)(4) tax status it claims. IRS rules require (c)(4) groups, which don’t have to disclose the names of their donors, to keep political work to under 50 percent of their activity.

Oklahomans for a Conservative Future, though, stands apart from most other dark money groups in a couple of ways. The first: its dedication to backing just one candidate, former Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon, a Republican who made an ultimately failed 2014 bid for a U.S. Senate seat.

OCF told the IRS that it had spent $1.4 million boosting Shannon, but totals reported elsewhere in the group’s annual tax filings show that the sum is likely much higher, possibly even the entirety of the group’s $2.1 million in outlays. At a minimum, OCF’s political support came close to matching the $1.9 million that Shannon’s own campaign spent leading up to his primary.

The other twist? OCF owned up to spending too large a share of its resources on politics — and promised to do better next time around. In effect, it gave the IRS a dark money IOU.

All indications, though, are that the group will be reneging on that commitment.

Sooner showdown

Candidate-specific super PACs have been around since at least 2012, but dark money groups supporting a single candidate — like the pro-Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) Conservative Solutions Project, which has pumped more than $8 million into ads supporting his White House bid — were brand new in the 2014 midterms. OCF was one of just three that existed that cycle.

Three of Shannon’s closest political allies — Chad Alexander, Xavier Neira and Stephanie Milligan — incorporated the group mere days after Shannon announced his candidacy and just months before the state’s Republican primary.

Alexander was a partner at two political consulting firms, A.H. Strategies and its sister company, Majority Designs; both contracted to run components of the Shannon campaign itself. He had another firm as well, Alexander Companies.

Neira was a vice president of a major building company, Manhattan Construction, and a member of Shannon’s exploratory steering committee for the Senate race. He was helping Shannon bring in cash for his run, too, signing on as one of the “hosts and sponsors” of a March 2014 fundraiser in Oklahoma City. Neira was also chairman of a second, state-level committee that paid most of the money it raised to Alexander’s firms. Alexander Companies received $33,000 from the group in rent and for contract services while Alexander was also running OCF, the pro-Shannon (c)(4), and was a partner at firms under contract to Shannon’s campaign.

And Milligan, who is currently the state director of :{Trump’s:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: campaign team in Oklahoma, was in on the action, too. She lists herself as having been vice president of Alexander Companies from May 2010 through December 2014.

Overlapping personnel doesn’t necessarily compromise the independence of outside spending groups like OCF, in the eyes of the law. Still, the picture became even more complex when Alexander, who was also a former lobbyist and onetime chair of the Oklahoma Republican Party, was arrested in May 2014 for possession of cocaine and prescription drugs (he later pleaded guilty). The affidavit attached to the search warrant for his cell phones suggests that officials at OCF and A.H. Strategies may have been coordinating with Shannon’s campaign. According to the document, interviews conducted by the district attorney’s office indicated that Alexander operated OCF “at the same time he is or was actively involved with the campaigns of individual candidates being represented by…A.H. Strategies” and its founder and leader, Fount Holland.

Alexander was a consultant at  A.H. Strategies for months after the firm began helping run Shannon’s campaign. But Holland told Oklahoma Watch at the time that “there was absolutely and unequivocally no coordination” between OCF and the campaign, which would be prohibited by federal election law.

The affidavit also implicates Neira, saying that some of the witnesses interviewed claimed he and other A.H. Strategies operatives “demanded they donate to both [OCF] and to the candidates being promoted by A.H. Strategies.” Neither Oklahoma nor Department of Justice officials contacted by OpenSecrets Blog would say whether there was an ongoing investigation of either coordination or coerced contributions, and Neira didn’t respond to multiple calls seeking comment.

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The strange tale of Oklahomans for a Conservative Future

• In Oklahoma, a dark money group tried to get the state's GOP House speaker, T.W. Shannon, elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014. Though it claimed to be a social welfare nonprofit, Oklahomans for a Conservative Future spent most of its money that year on pro-Shannon political advocacy.
• Along the way, at least one of those running the group also worked for consulting firms paid by the Shannon campaign itself. And an affidavit given in connection with drug charges against OCF's co-founder suggested the group may have been acting as an extension of Shannon's campaign.
• OCF owned up to overspending on politics in a letter to the IRS -- but told the agency not to worry, because in 2015 it made up for the transgression.
• Even if that kind of accounting were allowed -- which it's not, experts say -- the group appears to have done little more since Shannon's defeat than run ads made by a trade group of independent oil and gas producers.
• The link between the trade group and the nonprofit? Former Rep. J.C. Watts, lobbyist for the trade group and former employer of several of the nonprofit's board members.

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