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Border Crackdown Drives Up Immigrant Smuggling

By | 06.10.09 | 11:12 am

Let’s see what Lou Dobbs makes of this one: turns out the crackdown on border crossings by undocumented immigrants has actually led to an increase in the violent smuggling, kidnapping and ransoms demanded for delivering undocumented workers into the United States.

Joel Millman at The Wall Street Journal reports More…

Lou Dobbs Smarter Than SCOTUS Conservatives — Or He Just Doesn’t Understand the Law

By | 05.05.09 | 8:45 am

Remember Monday’s Supreme Court decision that logically pointed out that it doesn’t make sense to convict someone for “identity theft” if the worker using a fake social security number to get a job didn’t know that it actually belonged to someone?  He could be convicted of other things, as More…

Conservative Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Makes Strong Case for Legalization

By | 03.19.09 | 8:33 pm

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a research organization that favors restricting immigration, released a report Wednesday analyzing a set of immigration raids at six Swift meatpacking plants conducted in December 2006 in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas and Utah. The raids led to the arrest of about 1,300 More…

Lou Dobbs Watch: ‘Obama’s Pandering’

By | 03.11.09 | 11:50 am

In another fascinating segment from CNN’s immigrant attack dog Lou Dobbs, the popular prime-time anchor last night accused President Obama of pandering to Latinos by talking about education to a group whose goal is “to export drugs and illegal aliens to the United States.”

“I don’t know what’s happened More…

Lou Dobbs Makes Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

By | 03.10.09 | 12:12 pm

There may be nothing more disturbing than accidentally running into a broadcast of Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN. But there I was at the gym last night, captive to Dobbs ranting about the 300,000 illegal aliens who were supposedly going to be stealing American jobs. (I wrote earlier about More…

Advocates Blast Immigration Restrictionists for Disseminating Faulty Data

By | 03.10.09 | 7:11 am

Sure enough, the story I wrote about that appeared Monday in USA Today that said the stimulus bill would provide jobs for some 300,000 undocumented immigrants has created a firestorm.

Picked up widely and the subject of a fear-mongering report on Lou Dobbs’ primetime show More…

Christmas for Lou Dobbs

By | 01.19.09 | 3:46 pm

For almost four years, the fate of U.S. border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had been a sort of cause celebre among immigration restrictionists. In 2005, Ramos and Compean confronted a Mexican drug runner with 800 pounds of marijuana in his truck, and shot him (non-fatally). The man More…