Immigration has long been a major political issue in the United States, with many attempts to reform the immigration system in recent decades. Lately, conservative media have moved on from their traditional anti-immigrant attacks to using white nationalist rhetoric to warn against continued immigration.

Mark Fuhrman is Fox News’ on-air forensic and crime scene expert owing to his past career as a Los Angeles police detective, which ended after it was revealed he was racist against Black people and allegedly planted evidence in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. On Fox, he often defends police killings and other abuses of Black people.

Jeff Sessions was a Republican senator from Alabama for 20 years until he joined the Trump administration as its first attorney general in 2017. During his time as attorney general, he cracked down on immigrants and imposed harsher measures against people accused and convicted of crimes. He was also subjected to repeated public attacks by President Trump due to his recusal from the Trump/Russia investigation and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, which was spurred by his lies to Congress during his confirmation hearing.

Pete Hegseth is a Fox & Friends Weekend co-host who frequently advises President Trump both on-air and privately and campaigned to be named as Trump’s Veterans Affairs secretary. He also has lobbied the president to pardon military personnel charged and convicted of war crimes. Hegseth founded the Koch-linked conservative nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America in 2011, which he ran till around the 2016 presidential primaries. On November 12, 2024, President-Elect Donald Trump announced he would be nominating Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense.