Posted on 05/03/2007 11:39:32 AM PDT by Reagan Man
He has never called for the deportation of all illegal immigrants, but Lou Dobbs believes the U.S. could pull off such a feat if it really wanted to. The CNN anchor, whose stance against illegal immigration has helped raise his ratings but also fueled criticism, speaks to Lesley Stahl for a profile to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, May 6 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Dobbs is against amnesty programs for illegal immigrants and the president's guest worker proposal, so Stahl wonders whether Dobbs thinks the government could deport all illegal immigrants. "I've never called for their deportation,"says Dobbs. "But at the same time, when this president and open-borders, illegal-alien-amnesty advocates say, 'You can't deport them,' my answer is, 'You want to bet?' because this is the United States. I think this country can do anything it sets its mind to," he tells Stahl.
The former host of "Moneyline" for over 20 years, a business program on CNN, Dobbs has transformed himself into a purveyor of "News, debate and opinion" in the words used to introduce his current CNN program, "Lou Dobbs Tonight." The debate is often about illegal immigration. He is a believer in curtailing illegal immigrants' access to some social services. "I happen to think that it is necessary, given the fact that the federal government won't control immigration and won't control our borders," Dobbs tells Stahl. Dobbs says he's not for shutting off medical services, but illegal immigrants' use of other entitlements and the public schools is problematic. "Going to food stamps Ð should taxpayers be paying for food stamps? Should taxpayers be burdened with schools that are overcrowded?" Dobbs asks. "[Taxpayers'] children, therefore, are being denied education. Those are very serious issues," he says.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus accused Dobbs of being anti-Hispanic for these types of views. "I was asked if I'd ever eaten a taco before, for God's sake," says Dobbs, who has been married to a Mexican-American for 25 years. Hispanics have called for his job and Dobbs finds such criticism ironic because he grew up on a small farm and picked crops alongside migrants. "I am probably one of the few people in the debate who actually has [worked with migrants]. I've got the greatest respect for those folks," he tells Stahl.
Dobbs' opinions are a main feature of his nightly program, behavior that would exclude him from the classic definition of journalist as an objective reporter. Nevertheless, he still considers himself a journalist. Here's his opinion on that: "The idea that a reporter should be disqualified because he or she actually cares, actually isn't neutral about the well-being of the country and its people, that's absurd," he tells Stahl.
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No need to build a wall - the only cost is the cost of the time and ink to write the law.
Of course that makes too much sense for the pre-WWIII US to implement.
Remember when the US Post Office advertised $10,000 penalties and prison sentences for taking the ink pens from the building? Guess how many pens got stolen?
WWIII was the Cold War. We are already in WWIV.
Ike did it...so can Bush!
These people need to go home and get in line like everyone else.
Bush claims they have deported SIX MILLION illegals;
if they can deport six, they can certainly double their efforts and deport the rest!
Case closed!
I’m not sure we’d like what the end result would be for our nation if we tried to round them up and ship them out en masse.
Secure the border, cut off all funding for social services of any type, excluding life threatening emergencies, and deport those you take in via the emergency rooms.
Make it a felony for a CEO/COO & CFO for any company found to employ illegals. 5 year federal prison term, mandatory, with a fine of ten percent of the company’s estimated net worth.
Likewise, make it a felony for any property owner to rent or sell to an illegal.
Any state that doesn’t comply, cut off all federal funding at every level til the state gets with the program.
With five years, there would be a reverse of the tide back to Mexico, and elsewhere.
Cool..
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Yep. Operation Wetback worked.
Cease allowing them to be parasites here and they will deport themselves.
I wonder if 60 Minutes will dare label him as a Democrat?
He is a Democrat. He spent 2006 trying to defeat the GOP with his “Broken Government” shows.
I wonder if 60 Minutes will dare label him as a Democrat?
He is a Democrat. He spent 2006 trying to defeat the GOP with his “Broken Government” shows.
It's a poor attempt to paint the GOP as being anti-immigrant. As if the donkey party would do anything differently than the GOP regarding immigration.
Lou Dobbs is right.
President Eisenhower caused millions to return to Mexico under ‘Operation Wetback’ in less than a year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
A similar operation today combined with a policy of attrition would lead to tens of millions fleeing the USA within two-three years.
‘You want to bet?’
Sure!...It would be just fine with me if the Federal government took some of that big chunk of my check that I send them to get a huge fleet of buses. It could then send them all over the country to pre-arranged deportation centers and over a period of months or however long it takes, drive them to the border where they disembark and return to Mexico. Of course this assumes the wall is in place!.....
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Right, Lou...after all, how much trouble could 15 million pissed off people make?
Piece of cake...
I agree with your first part, but we do need a wall because we have terrorist crossing as Mexicans and we can’t leave all of the borders without walls.
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