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Same story from CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight transcript:

Home Depot, this country's biggest home improvement retailer, today announced plans to hire 20,000 new workers. What makes this initiative different is that Home Depot says it prefers to hire Spanish-speaking workers for those jobs. And even more surprising, Home Depot's partners in the campaign include groups that advocate amnesty for illegal aliens and U.S. driver's licenses for illegals.

Bill Tucker reports.

BILL TUCKER, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Home Depot is no stranger to marketing to the Hispanic marketplace. The home of the Los Angeles Major League soccer team is sponsored by Home Depot. Home Depot also sponsors the Mexican national soccer team.

And now the company is taking its relationship with the Hispanic community in a new direction. Home Depot wants to create 20,000 new jobs this year, and it's partnering with an array of Hispanic groups, hoping that they will help recruit the Hispanic bilingual workers.

DENNIS DONOVAN, HOME DEPOT: We see this as a real opportunity to work with these prominent Hispanic organizations, to tap into their strong networks of relationships and local offices that will not only help us fill our jobs, but also create employment opportunities.

TUCKER: The groups in turn will promote Home Depot.

ALFONSO MARTINEZ, HISPANIC ASSOCIATION ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: One of the obvious outcomes of this is that Home Depot will earn the trust of the Hispanic community, which is such an important aspects for corporations reaching out to the Hispanic community.

Reporter: That alliance is made up of the ASPIRA association, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, SER-Jobs for Progress National, and the National Council of La Raza.

La Raza's involvement raises some eyebrows, because it is a politically active group on illegal immigration issues.

La Raza and their ilk do not speak for US Hispanics anymore than John Kerry speaks for America. They are way on the left and believe me, only the more liberal of hispanics (and they are not that many) support illegal immigration. Most hispanics (even legal residents) are as aghast at the immigration problem as anyone else. La Raza is about the most elitest group you could ever find. Think Jesse Jackson, only most hispanics are not as blindly swallowing the bullsh!t as the blacks are.

I cannot blame Home Depot for trying to expand their market.
My business thrives because of the fact that I and my employees speak Spanish. Not doing so would cost me customers.