Lou loves to call undocumented workers "law breakers". His family is not far away from that reality. Although undocumented workers rarely had the intention of hurting any person when they broke the law, what was Lou's wife doing with a gun at the airport? It is old news but worth reading.Dobbs' wife arrested for having handgun at Newark airport
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The wife of CNN host Lou Dobbs was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday for having a loaded handgun in her handbag, authorities said.
Debi Dobbs, 49, of Sussex, was arrested at the security checkpoint at Terminal C after the gun was discovered, according to Allen Morrison, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport.
She was arrested at 3:15 p.m. without incident, Morrison said. Debi Dobbs was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and released on her own recognizance.
A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration said they were trying to determine the caliber of the gun.
Morrison said Debi Dobbs did not tell officers why she had the gun.
Debi Dobbs was at the airport to board a flight to Florida, authorities said. Christa Robinson, a CNN spokeswoman, confirmed that Debi Dobbs is the wife of Lou Dobbs, the host of that network's nightly business show Lou Dobbs Tonight
Robinson said Lou Dobbs was not available for comment. He was not with his wife at the airport.
Lou are you part of the Minuteman Group or Patriot Citizens? That's why you are against guns control measure? or you want to take the law on your own hands?
SHOCKER : Lou Dobb's wife is Mexican-American
This evening on CBS's "60 Minutes" Lesley Stahl interviewed the CNN anti-Mexican xenophobe Lou Dobbs. At one point in the interview Ms. Stahl commented, ". . . given the tone of his show, there's something even more surprising, something he never brings up: the fact that his wife Debi is Mexican-American."

This is quite a shock to many Mexican immigrants who have learned to dislike Dobbs because of his constant hate-mongering against what he calls criminal illegal aliens. He recently insinuated that America has the capability of rounding up all undocumented Mexicans and deporting them. Dobbs has become the "hero" of anti-Mexican xenophobes around the country.

Lou Dobbs has twin daughters with Debi whose maiden name is Segura. Mexican blood runs in the veins of his daughters, Hillary and Heather, yet he never mentions this on his anti-immigration CNN shows.

Lou and Debi Dobbs resides on a 300-acre horse farm in Sussex County, New Jersey with her Mexican parents and his mother. Leslie Stahl showed the parents of his wife and they looked totally Mexican.

About 4 years ago Debi Dobbs was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport after airport security found a loaded gun she was carrying in her handbag. She was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. After being fingerprinted and photographed by Port Authority Police, Debi Dobbs was released without bail. Mrs. Dobbs faced arraignment in a Newark court but the outcome of the case is not generally known

Lou Dobbs not only doesn't like Inmigrants at all but he promoting and funding other Anti Inmigrants groups. Just look at his most daily rethorics comments. Hosting segment from Hazleton, Pa., Dobbs did not acknowledge fundraising for the embattled town
Summary: During his Lou Dobbs Tonight "special report" on the efforts of the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to combat illegal immigration, Lou Dobbs praised a controversial anti-immigrant ordinance passed by the city, but he did not mention that, during the segment, he was promoting, on the show's CNN website, a website soliciting money for Hazleton's legal fund.On the May 2 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs reported from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for a "special report" called "Broken Borders," which he said, "examine[d] [Hazleton's] efforts to deal with the harsh realities of illegal immigration." On June 13, 2006, Hazleton passed the "Illegal Immigration Relief Act," drafted by the city's mayor, Lou Barletta, a controversial ordinance that sought to suspend the permits of local businesses and others for employing "unlawful workers" and landlords for renting to "illegal aliens." The measure, which was slated to go into effect in September 2006, was suspended in October of that year, after several groups, including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), challenged the legislation. At no point during what Dobbs called "a very special hour" did he mention that, on the Lou Dobbs Tonight website, he had been promoting a solicitation for donations to Hazleton's legal defense fund.

From the special "Broken Borders" broadcast on the May 2 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:

DOBBS: The national media, if I may say, appears hell-bent on obfuscating the issue, frequently equating legal immigration with illegal immigration. But the facts are clear. There are as many as 20 million people in this country illegally.it's not what he labeled them as a Illegal Aliens? Why he change his mind?

And the Bush administration and the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill seem determined to impose a massive illegal alien amnesty on American citizens, with little or no regard for the consequences.

Communities such as Hazleton are now taking action on their own, precisely because the federal government has failed to secure our borders or to enforce our immigration laws.

Later, Dobbs interviewed Barletta, who talked about the ordinance's impact:

BARLETTA: It was amazing, Lou. Immediately after we passed the ordinance, we witnessed many people leaving in the middle of the night, actually packing up their belongings and leaving.

So, you know, we would -- it would be fair to assume that those that left so quickly were illegal aliens who were just fleeing to another city.

Dobbs praised Barletta's efforts, stating, "Hazleton, the community, is leading the battle against illegal immigration, stepping in where the federal government has simply failed to perform its duty."

Yet, Dobbs neglected to mention that, during the segment, he was promoting solicitations to the town's legal fund. On his show's website, Dobbs posted a link to Small Town Defenders, a site hosted by Barletta that solicits money for the city's legal fight against MALDEF and the ACLU.

At the top of Barletta's site, he implores visitors to donate: "We need your help! Your contribution will help us win this fight!"
The Associated Press reported that, as of May 5, Hazleton has raised $266,000 in private donations.

According to a separate AP report published May 4, after receiving a letter from the National Institute for Latino Policy, CNN chief executive Jim Walton removed the link to Small Town Defenders.

During its May 6 profile of Dobbs, CBS' 60 Minutes did not mention that Dobbs had been promoting solicitations for Hazleton's legal fund. At the end of its segment, however, CBS acknowledged that Dobbs had taken on a new role: "While [correspondent Lesley] Stahl was talking to Dobbs, unbeknownst to 60 Minutes, he was talking to CBS News and has now joined The Early Show as a weekly commentator."

Lou Dobbs - National Council of La Raza (The Race)

Lou the 14th Admenment is the Civil Rights for all Cirizens Lawful or Unlawful. I see how you love to intimidate and retaliate other people.

Dobbs/Flanders on Aliens

We encourage and accept good faith questions and challenges to conduct that may run counter to the standars and we will not retaliate against those who raise or assert them. Lou you failling to comply with the Journalism and your Company Principles.

Madeleine Cosman, Mexican predators

I can see why Lou and Ms. Roman get the facts. From Extremist, Xenophobics and racist people.

Lou Dobbs' leprosy facts

Not only does he make up numbers and "facts," he obtains those "facts" from extremist sources whose far-right agenda his "reporting" propagandizes. That is, in fact, his established track record.

The History that Americans dont want to recognized.. Specially you Lou Dobss.. COURSING through the immigration debate is the unexamined faith that American history rests on English bedrock, or Plymouth Rock to be specific. Jamestown also gets a nod, particularly in the run-up to its 400th birthday, but John Smith was English, too (he even coined the name New England).

So amid the din over border control, the Senate affirms the self-evident truth that English is our national language; "It is part of our blood," Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, says. Border vigilantes call themselves Minutemen, summoning colonial Massachusetts as they apprehend Hispanics in the desert Southwest. Even undocumented immigrants invoke our Anglo founders, waving placards that read, "The Pilgrims didn't have papers."

These newcomers are well indoctrinated; four of the sample questions on our naturalization test ask about Pilgrims. Nothing in the sample exam suggests that prospective citizens need know anything that occurred on this continent before the Mayflower landed in 1620. Few Americans do, after all.

This national amnesia isn't new, but it's glaring and supremely paradoxical at a moment when politicians warn of the threat posed to our culture and identity by an invasion of immigrants from across the Mexican border. If Americans hit the books, they'd find what Al Gore would call an inconvenient truth. The early history of what is now the United States was Spanish, not English, and our denial of this heritage is rooted in age-old stereotypes that still entangle today's immigration debate.
Forget for a moment the millions of Indians who occupied this continent for 13,000 or more years before anyone else arrived, and start the clock with Europeans' presence on present-day United States soil. The first confirmed landing wasn't by Vikings, who reached Canada in about 1000, or by Columbus, who reached the Bahamas in 1492. It was by a Spaniard, Juan Ponce de León, who landed in 1513 at a lush shore he christened La Florida.

Most Americans associate the early Spanish in this hemisphere with Cortés in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru. But Spaniards pioneered the present-day United States, too. Within three decades of Ponce de León's landing, the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the Appalachians, the Mississippi, the Grand Canyon and the Great Plains. Spanish ships sailed along the East Coast, penetrating to present-day Bangor, Me., and up the Pacific Coast as far as Oregon.
From 1528 to 1536, four castaways from a Spanish expedition, including a Moor, journeyed all the way from Florida to the Gulf of California — 267 years before Lewis and Clark embarked on their much more renowned and far less arduous trek. In 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led 2,000 Spaniards and Mexican Indians across today's Arizona-Mexico border — right by the Minutemen's inaugural post — and traveled as far as central Kansas, close to the exact geographic center of what is now the continental United States. In all, Spaniards probed half of today's lower 48 states before the first English tried to colonize, at Roanoke Island, N.C.
The Spanish didn't just explore, they settled, creating the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States at St. Augustine, Fla., in 1565. Santa Fe, N.M., also predates Plymouth: later came Spanish settlements in San Antonio, Tucson, San Diego and San Francisco. The Spanish even established a Jesuit mission in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay 37 years before the founding of Jamestown in 1607.

Two iconic American stories have Spanish antecedents, too. Almost 80 years before John Smith's alleged rescue by Pocahontas, a man by the name of Juan Ortiz told of his remarkably similar rescue from execution by an Indian girl. Spaniards also held a thanksgiving, 56 years before the Pilgrims, when they feasted near St. Augustine with Florida Indians, probably on stewed pork and garbanzo beans.

The early history of Spanish North America is well documented, as is the extensive exploration by the 16th-century French and Portuguese. So why do Americans cling to a creation myth centered on one band of late-arriving English — Pilgrims who weren't even the first English to settle New England or the first Europeans to reach Plymouth Harbor? (There was a short-lived colony in Maine and the French reached Plymouth earlier.)
The easy answer is that winners write the history and the Spanish, like the French, were ultimately losers in the contest for this continent. Also, many leading American writers and historians of the early 19th century were New Englanders who elevated the Pilgrims to mythic status (the North's victory in the Civil War provided an added excuse to diminish the Virginia story). Well into the 20th century, standard histories and school texts barely mentioned the early Spanish in North America.

While it's true that our language and laws reflect English heritage, it's also true that the Spanish role was crucial. Spanish discoveries spurred the English to try settling America and paved the way for the latecomers' eventual success. Many key aspects of American history, like African slavery and the cultivation of tobacco, are rooted in the forgotten Spanish century that preceded English arrival.

There's another, less-known legacy of this early period that explains why we've written the Spanish out of our national narrative. As late as 1783, at the end of the Revolutionary War, Spain held claim to roughly half of today's continental United States (in 1775, Spanish ships even reached Alaska). As American settlers pushed out from the 13 colonies, the new nation craved Spanish land. And to justify seizing it, Americans found a handy weapon in a set of centuries-old beliefs known as the "black legend."

The legend first arose amid the religious strife and imperial rivalries of 16th-century Europe. Northern Europeans, who loathed Catholic Spain and envied its American empire, published books and gory engravings that depicted Spanish colonization as uniquely barbarous: an orgy of greed, slaughter and papist depravity, the Inquisition writ large.

Though simplistic and embellished, the legend contained elements of truth. Juan de Oñate, the conquistador who colonized New Mexico, punished Pueblo Indians by cutting off their hands and feet and then enslaving them. Hernando de Soto bound Indians in chains and neck collars and forced them to haul his army's gear across the South. Natives were thrown to attack dogs and burned alive.

But there were Spaniards of conscience in the New World, too: most notably the Dominican priest Bartolomé de Las Casas, whose defense of Indians impelled the Spanish crown to pass laws protecting natives. Also, Spanish brutality wasn't unique; English colonists committed similar atrocities. The Puritans were arguably more intolerant of natives than the Spanish and the Virginia colonists as greedy for gold as any conquistador. But none of this erased the black legend's enduring stain, not only in Europe but also in the newly formed United States.

"Anglo Americans," writes David J. Weber, the pre-eminent historian of Spanish North America, "inherited the view that Spaniards were unusually cruel, avaricious, treacherous, fanatical, superstitious, cowardly, corrupt, decadent, indolent and authoritarian."

When 19th-century jingoists revived this caricature to justify invading Spanish (and later, Mexican) territory, they added a new slur: the mixing of Spanish, African and Indian blood had created a degenerate race. To Stephen Austin, Texas's fight with Mexico was "a war of barbarism and of despotic principles, waged by the mongrel Spanish-Indian and other race, against civilization and the Anglo-American race." It was the manifest destiny of white Americans to seize and civilize these benighted lands, just as it was to take the territory of Indian savages.

From 1819 to 1848, the United States and its army increased the nation's area by roughly a third at Spanish and Mexican expense, including three of today's four most populous states: California, Texas and Florida. Hispanics became the first American citizens in the newly acquired Southwest territory and remained a majority in several states until the 20th century.

By then, the Legend had begun to fade. But it seems to have found new life among immigration's staunchest foes, whose rhetoric carries traces of both ancient Hispanophobia and the chauvinism of 19th-century expansionists.

Representative J. D. Hayworth of Arizona, who calls for deporting illegal immigrants and changing the Constitution so that children born to them in the United States can't claim citizenship, denounces "defeatist wimps unwilling to stand up for our culture" against alien "invasion." Those who oppose making English the official language, he adds, "reject the very notion that there is a uniquely American identity, or that, if there is one, that it is superior to any other."
Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus, depicts illegal immigration as "a scourge" abetted by "a cult of multiculturalism" that has "a death grip" on this nation. "We are committing cultural suicide," Mr. Tancredo claims. "The barbarians at the gate will only need to give us a slight push, and the emaciated body of Western civilization will collapse in a heap."

ON talk radio and the Internet, foes of immigration echo the legend more explicitly, typecasting Hispanics as indolent, a burden on the American taxpayer, greedy for benefits and jobs, prone to criminality and alien to our values — much like those degenerate Spaniards of the old Southwest and those gold-mad conquistadors who sought easy riches rather than honest toil. At the fringes, the vilification is baldly racist. In fact, cruelty to Indians seems to be the only transgression absent from the familiar package of Latin sins.
Also missing, of course, is a full awareness of the history of the 500-year Spanish presence in the Americas and its seesawing fortunes in the face of Anglo encroachment. "The Hispanic world did not come to the United States," Carlos Fuentes observes. "The United States came to the Hispanic world.
America has always been a diverse and fast-changing land, home to overlapping cultures and languages. It's an homage to our history, not a betrayal of it, to welcome the latest arrivals, just as the Indians did those tardy and uninvited Pilgrims who arrived in Plymouth not so long ago.

Dobbs refused to correct debunked leprosy statistic -- will Boyles?
Summary: On his May 7 broadcast, CNN host Lou Dobbs backed the veracity of his report citing "7,000 cases of leprosy" reported in the last three years in the United States, despite federal health statistics that state otherwise. Colorado Media Matters noted when a guest on Peter Boyles' radio show made a similar assertion regarding "7,000 cases" of leprosy that government statistics contradict the figure, but Boyles -- a frequent guest on Dobbs' show -- as of May 9 had not corrected the claim.
Following a May 6 60 Minutes profile of CNN host and immigration critic Lou Dobbs that questioned the veracity of his report asserting "7,000 cases of leprosy in the U.S. in the past three years," Dobbs defended the figure's accuracy on his May 7 broadcast. However, as Colorado Media Matters noted when a guest on 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show made a similar claim, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) statistics contradict the "7,000 cases" claim. Boyles, who is a frequent guest on Dobbs' show, also had not corrected the figure as of May 9.

Additionally, during neither the 60 Minutes profile nor his May 7 report did Dobbs disclose that the "Dr. Madeleine Cosman" cited on his show as the source of the 7,000 figure was a conservative scholar of medieval medicine writing in the journal of a conservative medical organization, not a medical doctor citing the figure in peer-reviewed research. The bibliography of Cosman's article includes such sources as the website EagleForum.org hosted by conservative ideologue Phyllis Schlafly, the libertarian Cato Institute, and right-wing columnist and author Michelle Malkin.

During the 60 Minutes report, correspondent Lesley Stahl noted that in reporting on diseases illegal immigrants purportedly bring to the United States, Dobbs correspondent Christine Romans "told Dobbs that there have been 7,000 cases of leprosy in the U.S. in the past three years." Stahl added that "a report issued by [HHS]" stated that "7,000 is the number of leprosy cases over the last 30 years, not the past three. The report also says that nobody knows how many of those cases involve illegal immigrants." Dobbs responded, "Well, I can tell you this. If we reported it, it's a fact." When Stahl asked how he could "guarantee" the accuracy of the figure, Dobbs replied, "Because I'm the managing editor. And that's the way we do business. We don't make up numbers, Lesley."

The figure Romans cited was also touted by Boyles guest Patricia Doyle, who on his September 20, 2006, broadcast asserted, "We once had 900 cases in 40 years -- the U.S. had 900 leprosy cases. In three years, recently -- for three years -- we've had 7,000 cases."

In fact, according to HHS, fewer than 200 cases of leprosy -- also known as Hansen's disease -- have been reported in the United States each year since 1995. As the HHS website states:

In the U.S., there are approximately 6,500 cases on the National Hansen's Disease Program Registry. This includes all cases reported since the registry began and who are still living.

Furthermore, a 2005 HHS graph showing reported new leprosy cases in the United States since 1976 indicated that the annual number of new cases has remained below 200 since 1995. The same graph shows a total of 7,029 reported leprosy cases in the U.S. from 1976 through 2005.

HHS also states, "A total of 166 cases were reported to the National Hansen's Disease Registry (NHDR) in 2005, representing a > 20% increase over the number of cases reported in the previous year (2004, n=131). This clearly reverses the declining trend in registered cases seen in recent years." Similarly, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated in a June 16, 2006, report ("Summary of Notifiable Diseases -- United States, 2004") that "[t]he number of reported cases of Hansen disease (HD) in the United States peaked at 361 in 1985 and has declined since 1988."

According to CNN's transcript, Romans said during Dobbs' May 7 broadcast that she was quoting the "7,000 cases of leprosy" statistic from "Dr. Madeline (sic) Cosman, a respected medical lawyer and medical historian writing in the 'Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.' " Romans apparently was referring to an article titled "Illegal Aliens and American Medicine" by Madeleine Pelner Cosman in the Spring 2005 issue of Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. The article included a sentence reading, "Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy," but did not carry a footnote citing the figure's source. The journal is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a conservative organization of medical professionals who, according to the website, "favor the restoration of a free market," which they claim "has not existed in American medicine for 60 years." The group also opposes Medicare and decries "socialized medicine."

According to her obituary in The New York Times, Cosman had a doctoral degree in English and comparative literature and was "a scholar of medieval medicine," not a physician. The obituary noted that Cosman, who died March 2, 2006, "worked as a health-care policy analyst" toward the end of her life and was an admirer of "Ayn Rand, whose libertarian ideas she embraced." In fact, Cosman was a research associate at the Objectivist Center, an organization that promotes Rand's philosophy of "objectivism." The bibliography to Cosman's article "Illegal Aliens and American Medicine" features numerous conservative sources. In addition to the Cato Institute, Eagle Forum, and Malkin, it lists the conservative Foundation for Economic Education, the conservative WND Books -- which publishes authors such as Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (CO) and right-wing radio talk show host Michael Savage -- and the conservative think tank American Policy Center.

2004 Eugene Katz Award
To all of Lou Dobbs viewers just a few words on his speach.

Reporting on immigration is, as everybody here knows, extremely difficult, for some of the reasons that Congressman Tancredo suggested. And there are other reasons: one, because, as Mark pointed out, information . . . hard facts . . . empirical evidence . . . are often hard to come by. And I don’t mean just in the sense that the United States government does not maintain and report accurate numbers about the number of illegal aliens who cross our borders because obviously if they had that count, we probably wouldn’t have quite the problem that we do. But it goes to the issue of the economics, the social impact, and the ad hoc studies that spring up in various forms as to the impact or the benefit of illegal immigration. We continue to strive, daily, weekly, to put it together. Independent organizations such as yours, news organizations, special interest groups on both sides of the issue or all sides of the issue . . . but in fact that’s the first challenge. Challenge not accomplished by you Lou. You only informing the Inmigration one way. Your way.
The second challenge is breaking through what our little group of intrepid journalists refers to as the orthodoxy. There is a mindset in this country that first does not understand the perspective that they hold, and secondly don’t understand the values that they are adhering to, in both their view and analysis and judgement of social issues, important social issues, like immigration.
Lou what you predicate is not Journalism is Xenophobia, and bigotry populism.
I have a real problem with his failure to admit that his information is incorrect.
It does not matter whether you're conservative, liberal, progressive, libertarian or anywhere inbetween. It is critical that all politically aware individuals at no point accept biased bigoted or manipulated information from any source.
A Journalist has a responsibility first and foremost to present accurate and unmanipulated information to the public at large.To not do so is the equivalent to not allowing your reader his or her right to choose. One cannot truly choose if the data is incorrect.
The big problem that we in the USA have is that so much of the journalistic material has been systematically changed and manipulated for its targeted audience.
The crime on the part of the public is to allow this to go on.
There is no excuse for not immediately admitting to the falaciousness of the information.
It is no one's responsibility other than the disseminator to verify the accuracy of the information.
Dobbs should have immediately reinvestigated not only the information, but who gave it, the circumstances under which it was given, and whether it is inaccurate.
Shame on Dobbs for refusing to do so.

CNN Stands By Lou Dobbs' Racist Fantasies.

Huffington Post blogger Bill Scher caught CNN's Lou Dobbs in a bit of an innocent mistake Tuesday night. Seems Dobbs' show was citing someone they shouldn't have been -- the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group that descended from the White Citizens' Councils of the civil rights era.
Oh, come on - you didn't think CNN meant to tell their audience that a white supremacist group's rantings were credible, do you? After all, in a statement released to Greg Sargent on Wednesday, CNN told us it was just an accident:
A freelance field producer in Los Angeles searched the web for Aztlan maps and grabbed the Council of Conservative Citizens map without knowing the nature of the organization. The graphic was a late inclusion in the script and, regrettably, was missed in the vetting process.
Wait a second - something doesn't sound quite right. The only thing CNN apparently considers regrettable here is that they broadcast a map produced by the CCC; the fact that they were even looking for a map of "Aztlan" in the first place escapes notice.
So, seeking clarification, I talked with a CNN spokesperson, and asked specifically, "Does CNN stand by Casey Wian's statement of the same night that 'You could call this the Vicente Fox Aztlan tour, since the three states he'll visit, Utah, Washington, and California, are all part of some radical group's vision of the mythical indigenous homeland'? Second, does CNN stand by the accuracy of the statements made by Mr. Dobbs and some guests on his show that there is a 'reconquista' movement?" The spokesperson told me CNN feels there is no need for further clarification, and that it stands by the report. (I've offered them the chance to respond to this post if they feel it necessary - I will update or post again if they do so.)
CNN is trying to play this off as an isolated mistake. Don't be fooled: it's not. The fact that Dobbs and reporter Casey Wian showed the CCC map only makes the subtle pattern of racist fantasies given voice on Dobbs' show more visible. (By the way, relatively unnoticed - the same night Dobbs was citing the CCC, he was leaving unchallenged, even laughing along with, one guest's suggestion that in order to get rid of illegal Mexican immigrants New Yorkers should order pizza and then arrest the delivery person. Thanks, Lou. We'll get right on that.) For months now, Dobbs and Wian have been reporting on "reconquista" and "Aztlan" movements, movements that exist not in the minds of mainstream Mexicans but in the fever dreams of white supremacists. That Dobbs eventually aired material pulled directly from a white supremacist organization should surprise no one - when you're subtly citing them on a regular basis, the unfiltered truth is bound to bubble up at some point.
And make no mistake: reconquista is nothing more than a white supremacist fantasy. Indeed, according to journalist David Neiwert and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the term was first brought into the popular consciousness by Glenn Spencer, the leader of a white supremacist organization called the American Patrol. And though racists like Spencer and his cohorts in spreading this myth, like white supremacist affiliate Michelle Malkin, claim to have proof for their theories, that claim falls flat.
You'll hear proponents of the reconquista myth talking about Mexican immigrants who care more about Mexico than the United States, you'll hear them talking about Mexicans in pro-immigration protests carrying Mexican flags, you'll hear them talking about a "widespread" belief among Mexicans that the Southwestern U.S. used to belong to Mexico. (A belief, I should note, that is accurate - but what people like Dobbs, Spencer and Malkin always forget to mention is that noting that the Southwest used to belong to Mexico, which it did, is not the same as believing it should be part of Mexico again.)
What you won't hear them talking about is the Irish flags flying at Irish pubs here, or the Israeli flag that flew next to the U.S. flag in my old Hebrew school - actually, you probably will hear some of the supremacists, often no fans of Jews, talking about that - and you certainly won't hear anyone talking about the widespread flying of a certain flag representing a group that actually succeeded in taking over the southern part of this country:

(Map of the Confederacy, by the way, from PBS - see picture above.

And what you won't hear the proponents of the reconquista myth acknowledge is that this kind of rhetoric has remained essentially the same throughout U.S. history to demonize the groups. The only thing that's changed is who's being demonized - first it was the Catholics, like the Irish and the Italians (that one kept up for a while: as recently as 1960, JFK had to publicly deny that he was more loyal to the Pope than to the United States) then the Eastern Europeans, then the Japanese and Chinese. Each time, there was the era's Lou Dobbs, screaming that these new immigrants - the ancestors of nearly all of us "Americans" today - just plain refused to assimilate, to learn English, to be good Americans. And each time their complaints, steeped in racism, proved unfounded.
But even given that history, CNN apparently sees no need for fact-checking, sees no problem with letting Dobbs and guests rant unchallenged about Aztlan and reconquista as if they were legitimate topics instead of the latter-day version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Accuracy be damned - ratings are up! Well, good for CNN. You've gotten at least one new supporter out of this whole thing.
"Welcome Lou Dobbs," the webmaster of the St. Louis chapter of CCC (which is headquartered in St. Louis) wrote on the chapter's blog on Thursday. "I knew you were one of us all along."
believe that using the press to to impose one’s view is not the role of journalist, you have a duty to inform the people of the pros and cons and not try to idealize the people by protraying that your opinion is that of the majority.
CNN is a well respected and trusted news media, some ignorant people believe anything they are told!
Lou do you realize that you are a grandson of an illegal immigrant? I think that people are fed up with you critisizing the illegal immigrants, and if CNN does not pay attention, they are going to lose their rating as a lot of people stop watching CNN when Lou Dobbs comes in.

Update: Wow, seems like I set off a bit of a comment firestorm here. Some people seem to be misunderstanding my position, so let me clarify a couple things. What I am is a person who is concerned by what I see as a pattern in the media of the transmission of white supremacist ideology, either through surrogates like Michelle Malkin, or through the treatment of those ideologies, like the myth of reconquista, as fact. And I think CNN, by standing by Dobbs here, is helping to perpetrate that myth and spread the ideology of some truly vile organizations. I've made the comparison before - it's as if he was reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fake plan for Jewish world domination cited by Hitler and other anti-Semites, on the air and treating it as fact.
As for the idea that some commenters have brought up that Aztlan and reconquista are not myths: I'm aware of the sites that have been cited. And I'm aware of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, the founding document of MECHA that some misinterpret as a call to arms or a call for reconquista. It's not - you need to place it in the historical context of the time; the document is a call for self-esteem and self-reliance in the face of oppression, set in the tradition of thinkers like Frantz Fanon. As for the sites, I don't deny that there are some fringe groups out there calling for reconquista. But that's what they are - tiny, ultimately insignifcant groups at a far fringe, being seized on to propagate the ridiculous notion that this is some sort of mainstream thought. It's not. I can show you websites from people who believe that "since 1971-72, the world has lived under an Anglo-Dutch Liberal tyranny," but that doesn't mean a mass of people truly believe that. Having a website doesn't mean you should be taken seriously, and it certainly doesn't mean you represent anything but yourself.

The real facts of the Clown (Lou Dobbs) and the Circus (CNN). Getting the Facts Straight.
Stop the BS Loud and tell your viewers how much money they make you earn with your pathetic show, the books and how much money your contribute to the community. You are not representing the Middle Class American. Stop being a false, hypocrite, liar, xenophobic, racist and a Clown.

Letter to CNN

Center Urges CNN to Retract False Reporting by Lou Dobbs


Almost every day now, it's possible to hear supposedly authoritative "facts" about immigration and immigrants bandied about by politicians, major media commentators and even allegedly objective news reporters — statistics and other assertions that paint a frightening picture of hostile, disease-carrying and highly criminal Latino "aliens" bringing economic ruin to the United States. A case in point is the 2005 claim made by CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show that 7,000 cases of leprosy had been reported in the United States in a recent three-year period — one of the "deadly imports," in Dobbs' words, that immigration brings. In May, the night after a CBS "60 Minutes" profile of Dobbs aired, Dobbs went on the air to furiously attack Intelligence Report Editor Mark Potok, who had been quoted in the piece criticizing Dobbs' characterizations of illegal immigrants. Christine Romans, the CNN reporter who first brought up the 7,000 figure, said she had got it from "a respected medical lawyer and medical historian" — the late Madeleine Cosman, a woman who told a 2005 nativist conference that "most" Latino immigrant men "molest girls under 12, although some specialize in boys, and some in nuns." As it turns out, officials say there are fewer than 250 new cases of leprosy each year.
These kinds of "facts" generally originate with modern nativist groups and ideologues like Cosman or even unabashedly race-based hate groups, but that has not stopped them from making their way, often by force of sheer repetition, into mainstream venues like "Lou Dobbs Tonight." In addition, it's no longer uncommon to hear false or distorted statistics and half-truths coming from more mainstream groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform and The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and aired on innumerable radio talk shows and major cable programs like the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."

This kind of mass defamation of certain immigrants is hardly a new phenomenon in American history. In earlier periods, Irish, Jewish, Catholic, Asian and other groups were publicly vilified, often by our country's leading statesmen, as lazy, degenerate, stupid, ugly, criminal, disloyal and more. Today, very few of the current roster of negative stereotypes — not to mention the conspiracy theories about immigration that are also increasingly widespread — contain any truth at all. But they play to an audience that may be predisposed to believe them; in 2000, even before the current immigration debate heated up, the General Social Survey published by the National Opinion Research Center found that 73% of Americans felt immigrants were likely to cause crime and 60% believed they were likely to cost native jobs. Today, in an even more poisonous atmosphere, millions of Americans apparently believe the lies touted by nativist extremists. What follows is an attempt to distinguish demonizing propaganda from reality.

THE CLAIM: Immigrants are infecting the country with diseases like leprosy.

THE PURVEYORS: CNN's Lou Dobbs, in an April 14, 2005, broadcast, said an "invasion of illegal aliens" was bringing "highly contagious diseases" to America "decades after those diseases had been eradicated" here. Dobbs' reporter, Christine Romans, stated that more than 7,000 new cases of leprosy had been reported in the previous three years. (This spring, after being challenged on that figure, Dobbs said that he stood "100%" behind it). Colorado columnist Frosty Woolridge also claimed, in 2003, that "7,000 new cases of leprosy" had been carried here by immigrants from Mexico, Brazil and India in the previous three years. Patricia Doyle, a "health columnist" for the hate site www.rense.com, repeated that number on Peter Boyles' KHOW-AM show in late 2006. The late anti-immigration activist Madeleine Cosman claimed in 2005 that "illegal aliens" were bringing in leprosy, malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease. White nationalist Pat Buchanan, appearing on Boyles' show in September 2005, asserted that undocumented immigrants were responsible for once nearly eradicated bedbugs reappearing in 26 states.

THE FACTS: The nativists' favorite health claim, about the frightening disease of leprosy, is false. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "200-250 new cases" of leprosy, or Hansen's disease, are reported each year. In a 2006 report, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of reported cases of leprosy in the country "peaked at 361 in 1985 and has declined since 1988." The claim that malaria is being spread by immigrants also is wildly exaggerated. The Centers for Disease Control says the disease, which can only be transmitted by mosquitoes, was "eradicated" in the 1950s in America, although there is a remote possibility that a mosquito could transmit the disease from an infected immigrant to a native American. The reappearance of bedbugs is a real phenomenon, but is largely blamed on "widespread use of baits rather than insecticide sprays for ant and cockroach control," according to a fact sheet from the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. It is true that most new cases of tuberculosis have been diagnosed in immigrants, according to a 2002 government study. It is also true that immigrants from Latin America have brought Chagas disease; however, it is transmitted only by blood-to-blood contact, like HIV, so the risk of contagion is limited.

THE CLAIM: Undocumented immigrants kill 25 Americans a day.

THE PURVEYORS: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), in a May 5, 2006, column on his website, claimed that a day without immigrants would create a far safer America: "The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals." King's claim has been repeated hundreds of times, sometimes by extremist activists like Clyde Harkins of the American Constitution Party, and frequently by radio hosts like Peter Boyles of Denver's KHOW-AM. Boyles also suggested last year that undocumented immigrants had murdered 45,000 American citizens since Sept. 11, 2001.

THE FACTS: King claimed he had "extrapolated" his numbers from a study by the General Accounting Office, Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm, that he said showed 28% of inmates in local jails and state and federal prisons were "criminal aliens." What the GAO study actually reported was that 27% of federal prisoners were immigrants, legally here or otherwise. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' figures on incarcerated persons, federal prisoners made up about 8% of the total incarcerated population. Given that, the 28% figure cited by King represents about 2% of the total number of persons in jails and prisons in the country. What's more, another GAO study estimated that only 12% of the non-citizens in federal custody were there for committing violent crimes. The GAO did not distinguish between those who were in the U.S. lawfully and those who were not. Regarding the claim of 45,000 Americans murdered by illegal immigrants, FBI statistics show some 85,000 murders from 9/11 to the end of 2006. If the claim by Boyles and others were true, that would mean undocumented immigrants, who make up fewer than 5% of the U.S. population, were responsible for 53% of all murders.

THE CLAIM: Undocumented immigrants are more criminal than natives.

THE PURVEYORS: Dan Stein, executive director of the supposedly mainstream immigration restriction organization Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), claimed in a March 8 press release that illegal immigration poses "a real and documentable risk" to Americans. "Illegal aliens are more prone to criminal activity than the rest of the population," Stein said. Twenty-three days later, Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the vigilante Minuteman Project, told an audience that it was "okay to say 'rapist,' 'robber' and 'murderer'" when describing "illegal aliens."

THE FACTS: Several studies refute the notion of relatively high criminality among Latino immigrants (the vast majority of today's immigrants). Ramiro Martinez Jr., a criminal justice professor at Florida Atlantic University who's spent years studying homicide statistics in U.S. border cities heavily populated by Mexican-born men and women, found the homicide rates were significantly lower for Latinos there than for other groups — even though the Latinos' poverty level was very high, and poverty and criminality are closely correlated statistically. Criminologist Andrew Karmen, in his 2006 book New York Murder Mystery, found the same trend in New York City, where the "disproportionately youthful, male and poor immigrants" of the last two decades "were surprisingly law abiding." Robert J. Sampson, chairman of Harvard's sociology department, reported in a 2005 article in The American Journal of Health that the rate of violence among Mexican Americans was significantly lower than among non-Latino white and black Americans. Remarkably, studies by sociologists Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut also show that second- and third-generation immigrants commit significantly more crimes than their parents, suggesting that U.S. culture somehow eventually produces more, not less, criminality among its citizens.

THE CLAIM: Immigrants are depressing the wages of native Americans.

THE PURVEYORS: On his April 1, 2006, show, CNN's Lou Dobbs said that the "most authoritative" study showed that legal and illegal immigration was depressing native wages by $200 billion a year. California nativist activist Joe Guzzardi has claimed that wages remain "stagnant" because of undocumented immigrants. Similar claims have been made by almost all immigration restrictionists in recent years.

THE FACTS: Despite what many view as the intuitively obvious relationship of immigration to wages, the fact is that most economists have not found a significant link between rising immigration and falling wages, the exception being studies in the early 1990s that showed a slight negative effect on African-American high school dropouts' pay. Overall, the National Academy of Sciences found in a broad look at the question in 1997, there was "only a weak relationship between native wages and the number of immigrants" in a given place. This was true for all types of native workers. The one group that did suffer were "immigrants from earlier waves, for whom the recent immigrants are close substitutes in the labor market." More recent studies have actually found a positive effect on native wages. The Public Policy Institute of California published a study this year that found that immigrants arriving in that state between 1990 and 2004 increased native-born workers' wages by 4%. The benefits, attributed to immigrants generally performing complementary rather than competitive work, extended to native workers at all educational levels.

THE CLAIM: Undocumented immigrants are "stealing" American jobs.

THE PURVEYORS: The allegation that undocumented immigrants are causing native unemployment is pervasive in the nativist movement. Terry Anderson, a black Los Angeles radio host and hard-line anti-immigration activist, for instance, told "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Oct. 23, 2003, that legal and illegal immigration was "killing the [native-born] work force." Texas nativist leader Debbie Rawlins said in 2006 that "Hispanics" were "taking our jobs, our homes." The far-right California Coalition for Immigration Reform has a billboard on the California-Arizona border that reads, "Demand Illegal Aliens Be Deported. The Job You Save May Be Your Own."

THE FACTS: A 2006 Pew Hispanic Center study, "Growth in the Foreign-Born Workforce and Employment of the Native Born," found no evidence that the large increases in immigration since 1990 have led to higher unemployment among native Americans. The center examined census data on the increase in immigrants in each of the 50 states, comparing those figures to state jobless rates and participation in the labor force by the native born. Although immigrants tended to be younger and less educated than native workers, the report found "no apparent relationship between the growth of foreign workers with less education and the employment outcome of native workers with the same level of education." These findings were in line with those of most economists, who have failed to find a link between immigration and job loss. "The big message here," said University of California economist Giovanni Peri, who conducted a similar study in California, "is there is no job loss from immigration."

THE CLAIM: Poor immigrants cost native taxpayers a fortune in social services.

THE PURVEYORS: Robert Rector, senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on June 12, 2006, that immigrants were exponentially driving up welfare costs. "[I]f you're bringing in high school dropouts who aren't married and have children out of wedlock, what are they going to do? They're going to be on welfare. ... It's going to cost at least $70 billion a year." Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at its City Journal, wrote in 2002 that undocumented immigrants "do get welfare" based on having children who are born in this country and are therefore citizens (she did not explain how parents pulled this off). U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), citing Rector, claimed this year that low-skill immigrant households were costing American taxpayers "over $1 million per head of household."

THE FACTS: As a general rule, the federal government reaps a net benefit from undocumented immigrants in the form of Social Security payments that the workers are never able to collect because they are not citizens; it is the states, in terms of social services, education and medical services, that pay the bulk of costs associated with supporting the undocumented population. Even so, Rector and MacDonald's claims are disputed by numerous scholars, including even MacDonald's senior colleague at the Manhattan Institute, Tamar Jacoby. Jacoby, who studies immigration extensively, told the conservative National Review that while individuals might receive more in services than they paid in taxes, "they are growing the [overall economic] pie so significantly that that cost pales in comparison." Jacoby cited a recent study of immigrants in North Carolina that reported that over the prior 10 years, Latino immigrants had cost the state $61 million in a variety of benefits — but were responsible for more than $9 billion in state economic growth. The same point was made in a 1997 National Academy of Sciences study that found "the less-educated immigrants who impose a fiscal burden are the very same immigrants who provide the economic benefit reported." A major survey of the net effects of immigration, published in 2006 in The New York Times Magazine, cited only one economist, George Borjas of Harvard, claiming a negative net effect. Many other economists disputed Borjas. "If Mexicans were taller and whiter," University of California, Berkeley, professor David Card told the magazine, "it would probably be a lot easier" for the public to accept the majority view of economists that the net effects of immigration, which is now predominantly Latino, are positive.

THE CLAIM: Proposed immigration reform would vastly overpopulate America.

THE PURVEYORS: Heritage Foundation senior fellow Robert Rector, quoted in a May 15, 2006, article on the far-right NewsMax.com website, said that the proposed Kennedy-McCain immigration reform bill would likely result in 103 million legal immigrants in the next 20 years. He added that the figure could reach 200 million people. Years earlier, immigrant-bashing columnist Frosty Woolridge of Colorado claimed that current immigration "is pushing us toward 200 million added people vying for diminishing resources," though he offered no support for his number. Other nativists have repeatedly made similar assertions.

THE FACTS: As was quickly pointed out when Rector first made these claims, his numbers defy basic logic. His minimum figure of 103 million people is roughly equal to the entire current population of Mexico; to reach his high figure of 200 million people moving to the United States in the next 20 years, you'd have to throw in the equivalent of the current population of Central America, too. Several leading demographers told the San Francisco Chronicle in May 2006 that Rector's projections were vastly overstated, ignored the effects of emigration, and used unreasonably high estimates of legalization and naturalization. The same month, a report from the Congressional Budget Office, specifically analyzing the Kennedy-McCain proposal, estimated that the bill would result in 8 million people legally entering the country over 20 years, a tiny fraction of Rector's estimates.

WHY TALK ABOUT LOU DOBBS ? Not because the CNN Clown has anything to contribute to our understanding of such important issues as immigration, outsourcing and international trade. Even so, Dobbs has come out with two books on these and related topics, and his nightly news show, Lou Dobbs Tonight.

Normally, that should been more than enough ink to spill on what I perceive to be his dishonesty and capacity for hate-mongering. But the size of his audience alone suggests a need to continue setting the record straight.

In his 2004 book, Exporting America, Dobbs published a table on future job growth that blatantly misrepresented its source, the Bureau of Labor Statistics. When I pointed out the error in a phone conversation, he clearly was not pleased. Now he not only perpetuates the misrepresentation in his new book, War on the Middle Class, by rerunning the table, but this time does not even mention the source.
Just what does this table show, and why is it so important? In his earlier book, subtitled, Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas, Dobbs left the impression that a BLS study in February 2004 found that “seven of the 10 biggest areas of job growth were in menial or low-paying service jobs” — just the sort of finding that buttressed his thesis and enraged foes of outsourcing and globalization. But the list he printed, beginning with “waiters and waitresses,” had been gleaned from another table entirely, in the back of the BLS study, and then scrambled for heightened effect.

In fact, the main finding of the BLS study was exactly the reverse of what Dobbs claimed. The study prominently stated that “employment in professional and related occupations is projected to grow the fastest and add more workers (6.5 million) than any other major group.”

In his new book, this time in a chapter called “Exporting America,” Dobbs observes that “no one is saying which industry will be the source of replacements for…jobs lost to outsourcing.” The folks at the BLS were “saying” it not only in ‘04 but in an update in November 2005, notwithstanding Dobbs’ refusal to listen. After declaring that “the following jobs will have the greatest demand for workers in the next decade,” Dobbs reprinted the same list, merely reinforcing, to his fans, the idea that outsourcing, and all it represents, had done America wrong.

Dobbs’ new book also answers another question: why he and other newscasters habitually refer to China as “communist” China — as in a Dec. 8, 2005, broadcast, in which he announced, “Still ahead…communist China planning a massive new assault on American consumers.”

The precise nature of this fearsome attack: The Chinese government had brought about 100 companies to a New York City trade fair to market their goods.
The term “communist,” together with phrases like “massive new assault,” is clearly meant to allude to a time when China was in the enemy camp — where Dobbs presumably hopes to place it once again. Yet, in response to what he calls “frequent” questions about his word choice in his broadcasts, he writes, “China is the world’s largest communist country. Its government is communist. President Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao are not elected officials. China is not a democracy; it is a communist state. The real question is, why do other news organizations and our political leaders ignore that reality?”

That circular statement deserves to be aired on Comedy Central, perhaps on The Colbert Report. Otherwise, to refute Dobbs can feel like striking a fly with a mallet. While China is hardly anyone’s model of a free country, that’s not the point. It’s just a little harder to instill fear in television audiences with talk of “communist” India or “communist” Indonesia — two countries, by the way, that the 2006 Index of Economic Freedom, released jointly by The Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation, cited as less free economically than post-Mao China. Besides, if “communist” means the absence of democratic elections — which it does not — then more than half the world’s nations must also be communist.

Sure, outsourcing has its drawbacks, but it’s time to call Dobbs’ economic demagogy what it is.
There is some truth to issues like Americans losing jobs to foreigners, reduction in consumer satisfaction, ever increasing expenses in living standards, growing inflation compare to the growth in salary. But this heat is not just for middle class. This is for everybody except the top 15%, whose house hold income more than $120K. Since most of Americans “used” to be in middle class, he took a theme which is appealing for his audience (War against Middle Class). But In my mind he is either confused or a typical hypocritical or maybe less informed to argue this is all due to Globalization or by the foreign workers. Well CNN gave him enough freedom to support his theories and spread enough hearted and worst of all his viewers are misinformed. Sometimes patriotism blinds the reality and we tend to forget the real roots of our today’s problems and started blame something else.

America excels in capitalism and one of the pioneers of globalization. Globalization/WTO helps the American businesses to enter the growing markets. Ask yourself a question, how many multi-national companies that can complete American businesses even today’s world in any major sector? No doubt a fresh completion is created by the globalization, but do u know how much percentage of patents are owned by first world and second world compare to developing or under-developed countries?
More and More American companies are expanding their businesses in developing world. For some companies more than 50% revenues are coming from rest of the world and that number is still growing. This is healthy for American capitalistic society and to the American people. This also helps our businesses send more money in R&D compare to any country in the world, and that guarantees the edge in completion.

We all know Government is by the people and for the people and certainly Governments will try to protect their country’s interests for the benefit of their people. This happened in the past and will happen in future. And that’s why we have trade agreements and Lou never supports them. Remember Lou, there is “Give and Take”

I am very glad that globalization is helping the world by bettering the lives of poor people and that is healthy. IMHO, this is much better than charity work, since now they know how to catch the fish. There is always a fresh idea, which will become innovation and can make some money, where was Google 10 years ago?

I wonder why he is so popular ? Lets analyze this:
1. He has very strong views about topics.
Thats no crime, actually its admirable. I think this is one of the reasons why Lou has such a large following.
2. Lou analysis/figures and approach. Now thats another story!!! Lou is NOT an economist, but talks like one; Lous research is sketchy at best and most of the figures he rambles off do not add up, but he talks like he knows whats going on; Lou takes a very extreme view of thing, and does not entertain or accept any other arguments.
I think that it is these very attributes that give him the large following:
At heart Lou is not here to solve any problems or suggest true workable solutions or even analyze issues. He is an Clown. The longer he can hold our attention the better his ratings and more money he makes. So thats what he is doing!!!
Shame on all of us for not understanding this. For all those of you aggravated by Lou, dont hate him, just dont pay too much attention to what he says. Its an Clown!!!!

Lou Dobbs makes a $10 million dollar salary , lives on a 200 acre house, makes countless millions in selling books, lives a lifestyle that would be the envy of all but the super-rich elite, and he claims to be the voice of the middle class? Who is he kidding.

If he feels so strongly about this, why doesn’t he start "Half-assed Socialist Paradise Venture Fund" that invests only in companies that (a) hires only US citizens (b) never outsources a single job. (c) pays 50% higher than what "slave wage" co.s like IBM and Microsoft pay....

Let him literally put his 'considerable money where his considerable mouth is', and show us all how HE would run a business, instead of ranting on and on everyday about "greedy corporate CEOs".
CNN, the most trusted name in news…. Please stop this nuisance. We are better off w/o this misinformation.

Uncovered News by CNN and other Media .Violence Against Immigrants Builds as a higher speed.

Editor’s Note: During the immigrant rights marches last week, plots to attack immigrants with grenades and semi-automatic weapons were uncovered in Alabama, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Immigrant advocates say this indicates a very dangerous trend they believe is fueled by an anti-immigrant climate.


NEW YORK -- As cities and towns across the country watched the immigrant rights marches last week, some saw a spike in violent attacks targeting immigrants. In separate incidents, authorities arrested groups and individuals caught stockpiling grenades, semi-automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition in preparation for attack on immigrants. Immigrant rights advocates say the series of incidents and reports indicates what they are calling a very dangerous trend that they believe is fueled by the anti-immigrant climate.

In addition to the well-reported incidents involving police violence against immigrants in Los Angeles, last week’s less publicized incidents and reports involving actual and potential violence against immigrants and their supporters included:

· The arrest and indictment of six members of the Alabama Free Militia who, according to federal authorities, were allegedly preparing to attack Mexican immigrants near Birmingham, Ala. with grenades, semi-automatic weapons and 2,500 rounds of ammunition confiscated during a recent raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
· Washington, D.C., area police arrested Tyler J. Froatz Jr., a 24 year-old man wielding a gun as he allegedly attacked marchers at a local immigration rally last Tuesday. U.S. Park police say Froatz had two knives, a hammer, a flare gun, a taser stun gun and pepper spray when they captured him. A subsequent police search of Froatz’s apartment yielded 15 guns, a Molotov cocktail, a grenade and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, according to authorities.
· An early morning fire last Thursday at Casa de Maryland, a day-labor center near Gaithersburg, Md. was declared an arson incident by Montgomery County fire investigators. Representatives of Casa de Maryland, which received regular hate phone calls and emails prior to the incident, were reported in The Washington Post as calling the incident a hate crime and a “natural consequence to the ongoing debate over immigration.” County executive Isaiah Leggett called it “shameful and despicable.”
Each of these incidents represents an alarming development in and of themselves. But together, advocates like Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, say they represent a potentially catastrophic turn in the already heated politics of immigration. “This is very dangerous and deeply troubling – but not a surprise,” says Salas, whose organization has documented an increase in hate crimes in the Los Angeles area. “These crimes are not just happening because of the organized hate groups,” adds Salas. “It’s also happening because of the (anti-immigrant) climate created by irresponsible politicians and media personalities like Lou Dobbs who use their bully pulpits… against a specific population. This gives the green light to every crazy to do physical harm to immigrants as if it’s their civic duty.”

She and other immigrant leaders fear that the lack of official condemnation of, and the lack of media attention to, these violent attacks against immigrants has created a national numbness to threats to immigrant life.

With the exception of the LAPD violence, little attention has been paid to the other incidents across the country, outside of a few local stories (in Los Angeles, Washington, Maryland and Birmingham) and a few Spanish and other foreign language reports. And, with the exception of condemnations of the police incident by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Congresswoman Hilda Solis and other elected officials, no single politician of national stature or presidential candidate has said anything about what some analysts say is the exponential growth of violence against immigrants. A report released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups and hate crimes, found that, "The last two years have seen the birth of at least 144 'nativist extremist' groups -- organizations that do not merely target immigration policies they don't agree with, but instead confront or harass individual immigrants."

Commenting on what she considers the dangerous inversion of values behind the attacks, Salas said, “Because it’s immigrants being threatened and targeted with violence, this is not a big story. It’s only a story for immigrants

CNN Takes Down Anti-Immigrant Link on Website

El Diario/La Prensa, Editorial, Staff, Posted: May 03, 2007

Editor’s Note: An editorial in today's El Diario/La Prensa criticized CNN for posting a link on Lou Dobbs’ page on its website directing visitors to an anti-immigrant group in Hazleton, Penn. After receiving criticism by the National Institute for Latino Policy, CNN agreed to take down the link.


NEW YORK -- From the looks of its web site, CNN is more than just reporting the news, it`s rallying support for anti-immigrant measures.

The news network has decided to condone fundraising in support of the city of Hazleton, PA. The Pennsylvania town has been embroiled in a legal battle over an ordinance it introduced last year. Under that measure, business owners could have their doors shut for hiring undocumented persons. Landlords found renting to undocumented persons would be penalized with fines. With the growing trend of scapegoating undocumented immigrants, the ordinance has served as a model for other U.S. towns.

On its site, CNN directs visitors to the City of Hazleton Legal Defense Fund, under the heading of "Town Under Siege." The National Institute for Latino Policy points out that the network does not list the option of donating to the other side of this battle—immigrants, native residents and business owners of Hazleton who are represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

CNN responds that the posting is on Lou Dobbs` Web page, Meaning he supporting anti Inmigrant and Extremist groups. As if the pundit is some outside entity that the network has no control over. We`re not referencing a myspace page or a facebook entry, but the CNN Web site. CNN cover up and support the most Ambigous, Anti Inmigrante, Xenophobic and bigotry journalist like Lou Dobbs.
If CNN, a division of Time Warner, one of the largest corporations in the world, wants to advocate measures that drive poor, undocumented families out of their homes, that`s the network`s editorial prerogative. But helping to fundraise for these efforts steps over a line traditionally observed by news organizations. Shame on you CNN. It is bad practice and bad politics.
Note from New America Media: In a May 3 letter to Angelo Falcón, president of the National Institute of Latino Policy, CNN President James Walton thanked him for raising his concerns and agreed to take down the link.
This is the new slogan on Lou Dobbs page. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. Another slogan. External sites open in new window; not endorsed by CNN.com Solely of the writer but that page is own by CNN.


Let's Boycott all Time Warner products until they balance the Anti Inmigrant, Xenophobia, and Unethical movement against Latinos specially Mexicans.!!!
Lou I am wonder if Mr.Richard D. Parsons
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner knows that you are falling to comply with the new standards business conduct.
These are the principles you should review and comply Lou.

1.-Respect and Obey the Law.
2.-Conduct yourselves as profesionals and value diversity and merit in the workplace.
3.-Our Business loyalties are to the company and we avoid conflicts of interest, real or apparent, that may jeopardize this allegiance. Lou you support the Minuteman, Extremist, and Xenophobics groups.
4.We are not false. We account for and disclose information about our Company Honestly and in accordance with profesional and legal requirements. Lou you always mention 12, 20 million of undocumented inmigrants on this Country if the Goverment has the resource to do the count and they always said estimated 12,000 millions why you always lying about it. just create xenophobic, anger, conflicts.
5.-We deal honestly, fairly and respectfully with each other and with our suppliers, Customers, competitors,govermental agencies and communities. It's hard for your to speak the true. It's not what you getting paid to inform the true.
6.-While our content may sometimes engender controversy, we want no one to question our character. Lou review most of your transcripts to see the percentage 99.9 % controversy on the veracity of your program.
7.-We encourage and accept good faith questions and challenges to conduct that may run counter to the standars and we will not retaliate against those who raise or assert them. Lou how many guest do you shout out just because they were not agree with you and not even that you continue to retaliate to those people that support or are Pro Inmigrants.
8.-We do not promulgate Hollow words-We mean these things and want our company to be defined by them.
CNN needs to stop spew xenophobia specially you Lou.

A peculiar day for immigration rallies. The War of Lou Dobbs against Latinos specially Mexicans.Editor's Note: Lou Dobbs' commentary and response to his questions by me. You need a Mental Health Lou...The Undocumented Immigrants will paid for those services. Not any penny will be taking out of your pocket.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- What a spectacle, what a mess. We have a freedom of speech my friend Lou. What a day for thousands and thousands of illegal aliens and their supporters to march through the streets of many of our biggest cities demanding amnesty for illegally entering the country. You just said What a day to celebrate that Latinos are getting together in this Country eh.Are you getting afraid?

May Day was a peculiar choice for those demonstrations, a day in many countries in which international socialism is celebrated and a reminder of those old Soviet Union military parades. Not only that Lou. The latinos celebrate Labor day on May 1. That doesn't mean anything to you? Utilizing freedom of speech to be treated fairly and equally for doing hard work on this Country.
It was also an unfortunate and ironic choice on the part of the organizers of the demonstrations. May 1 in the United States is actually Law Day,
Well, Lou it was Ironic for you and the bunch of xenophobics and not for the Organizers and the Latinos but it was a day to celebrate and joy for our community that we will overcome the suppression, discrimination, and damages causing to us not only mentally but physically from all the Xenophobic and racist people on this Country.
A day first established by President Eisenhower in 1958 and ultimately codified into law in 1961 at the beginning of John F. Kennedy's administration. The purpose of Law Day is to give all Americans an opportunity to reflect on our legal heritage, and by statute, encourages "the cultivation of the respect for law that is so vital to the democratic way of life." You just said Democratic way of the Life..

I'll bet you know about the illegal alien amnesty marches, but I don't know of a single news organization, electronic or print that pointed out that May 1 is America's Law Day. The cable news networks gave almost wall-to-wall coverage to the illegal alien demonstrations, but they apparently couldn't find any American celebrating Law Day. That's telling you how important are the Latinos on this Country. Why you didn't broadcast the marches? because nobody will watch your show right? You are just a populist xenophobic
And no one seems to want to take note that we are first a nation of laws (OOPS Excuse me, You are saying no one that's mean you are included?) Invasion and broken International laws too right Lou? and that without those laws and their enforcement, the foundation of our great republic turns to sand. Wonder why Lou? because you just said No one want to see that we are a Nation of Law either yourself. What a spectacle on Law Day for demonstrators to demand amnesty for those who broke the law to enter our country, many of whom also broke the law with fraudulent documents.
Yeah Lou What a great Spectacle on May 1 our Community shows not only to this nation to the all World that we can march pacifically without any disturbance to receive respect for our Dignity, our hard work, our effort, and for our compromise to contribute and assimilate to this Great Nation.

I couldn't help but wonder as I watched monitors bringing images of the marches and demonstrations from all across the country, who should really be protesting on May Day. What about the millions of legal residents who followed the long, drawn-out process to secure a visa to enter the United States lawfully? Maybe they should be protesting. What about the seven-figure backlog at the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency of people who are following the rules. Should they demonstrate?
Yes, Lou, They were there. Many of them are Legal Residents, U.S. Citizens that their families are part of seven figure back log from I.N.S Agency..
And you are right; you couldn't help it but you should be looking yourself at the mirror how much anger, disappointment, discourage, and upset you were as you was watching the marches on the Monitors.
What about all of our fellow Americans who are being marginalized by the massive importation of illegal, low-cost and mostly uneducated labor into this country? Perhaps those citizens should take to the streets. And what about the more than 250 million Americans who make up our middle class and those who aspire to it whose wages have stagnated and who are paying for the social, medical and economic costs of illegal immigration? That's a big march.
Lou you always mention about the burden of the social services from undocumented Inmigrants to the social services but you never should real facts..
For your knowledge any Government Agency rendering social service must request a valid Social Security card, a valid identification from any State, Legal Status (Resident or U.S Citizens). Proof me that I am wrong. How the undocumented Inmigrants will be receive a service without any of these documentation. Why you are not demonstrated to your viewers how many uninsuranced people have drained the Hospitals rather than the Undocumented Inmigrants? You are a Liar Xenophobic and you know that your career will end as soon as they passed the comprehensive Inmigration Reform.

If yesterday's demonstrators and their supporters in Congress and corporate America are serious about their deep desire for American citizenship, why don't we hear any of them clearly say they're willing to give up dual citizenship? Or that they're willing to learn English and surrender demands of bilingual education? Or declare they embrace English as our official national language? Or demand that illegal employers of illegal aliens pay for the social, educational and medical costs now borne by the taxpayers?
Lou Why you should not ask to the real Americans (Native Americans) about to make their Official Language? Would you accept it? Would you be willing to learn their Language? An American Indian friend chuckles over this issue. "Our problem," he quips, "would never have arisen if we'd had a few Lou,Tancredos, Buchannan as Chiefs when the White settlers first arrived-as illegal immigrants."

Think twice before you said something. You are demanding too when you don't have the right to do so.
Yesterday was Law Day. I hope that we celebrate Law Day with a great national enthusiasm next May 1. I guarantee you I'll march in that demonstration.
And Again What a great Day to celebrate with our community that we overcome together to just a simple and common hope the American Dream.

Civil Rights Groups Sue Immigration Officials for Unlawfully Detaining Six-Year-Old U.S. Citizen (4/26/2007)


Six-year-old Kebin Reyes was unlawfully detained for 10 hours.

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SAN FRANCISCO – The American Civil Liberties Union, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the ACLU of Northern California, and the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP, filed a lawsuit today on behalf of a U.S. citizen child who was unlawfully detained for ten hours by immigration officials.

Six-year-old Kebin Reyes was taken into custody with his father, Noe Reyes, in the early hours of March 6, 2007 when U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency (ICE) agents raided his home in San Rafael, California.

“ICE’s treatment of children is not in line with American values of decency and fairness,” said Julia Harumi Mass, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. “In addition to Kebin’s case, we have heard reports of children left without care after their parents are detained, immigration agents targeting areas around elementary schools, and children too upset to participate ain class after witnessing early morning raids in their communities. The human cost of these tactics is unacceptable.”

Immigration agents stormed into the apartment where Kebin and his father were living and rounded up all the occupants, demanding their immigration papers and passports. Mr. Reyes immediately gave the ICE agents his son’s U.S. passport, identifying Kebin as a U.S. citizen. An ICE agent then told Mr. Reyes to wake his son and said they would take them in for only an hour or two. Mr. Reyes asked several times to make a phone call so that he could arrange for a family member or family friend to care of Kebin. Each of these requests was denied, and Kebin was forced to watch as his father was handcuffed and taken away. The immigration officers then told Kebin to place his own arms behind his back, like his father’s.

At the ICE processing center in San Francisco, Mr. Reyes’ additional requests to make a phone call were denied and ICE agents made no efforts to seek alternative care for his son. Kebin and his father were placed in a locked room and were only provided with bread and water. Kebin’s uncle learned about the arrests from neighbors and rushed to the ICE office. He waited several hours before Kebin was finally released into his custody.

“There is a long history of abuse and misconduct by immigration agents,” said Philip Hwang, a staff attorney at the Lawyer’s Committee. “In recent months, government agents have entered homes without warrants and threatened and intimidated community members. What happened to Kebin is the latest, most shocking incident. This lawsuit is an important step in holding the government accountable.” The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area has brought nine cases against immigration agents in recent years.

Cooperating attorney Howard Slavitt of the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP added, “Kebin thought he was in jail - this was clearly a traumatic incident for him. There was no reason for his arrest, and no explanation that Kebin’s family can offer him. That’s because the arrest was arbitrary and irrational. Over six weeks have passed, and Kebin is still having nightmares.”

Since last May when ICE’s “Operation Return to Sender” was launched, immigration raids were conducted throughout the nation, resulting in the detention of more than 18,000 immigrants, according to recent news reports. In the Bay Area, raids were conducted in several counties including Marin, Contra Costa County, San Francisco, Redwood City and Santa Cruz.

In response to reports of misconduct and abuse by ICE agents, the ACLU of Northern California, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on March 6 seeking records relating to recent raids. Some of the abusive practices reported in the press included illegal entries and searches by ICE agents, misidentification of ICE agents as a member of local police forces, inappropriate tactics related to children, ethnic profiling, violations of due process and abusive treatment.

The civil rights groups and the law firm are seeking damages for Kebin Reyes.

Shut Down the Criminal Detention Center Hutto

Like adults, immigrant children come to the U.S. in search of a better life. When they're caught, they're held at a federal facility in Gonzales County until they can be reunited with their families.

"Late Friday evening, the FBI received a complaint regarding these allegations and we'll be looking into them," FBI spokesman Eric Vasys said. "The FBI takes these allegations very seriously. Once our investigation is complete, we'll refer it to the U.S. Attorney's Office for prosecution."

In all five children were reportedly abused, possibly even sexually abused at the shelter, which is operated by the federal government.

"I've had children we've received who haven't eaten in five or six days. The shoes they come with don't have any soles on them anymore and their feet are very cracked and sore and brittle and bleeding," said shelter director Maggie Gaytan.

The facility opened its doors in 2003 with 24 beds. It was such a success, it now has 100 beds for minors.

Now, CPS has begun an investigation into the abuse.

"Residential child car licensing is actually a division of the Family and Protective Services. If we're involved in any way with housing children at a facility, then they need to let us know what's going on out there," said Mary Walker, spokeswoman for CPS. "Any facility where children are located that may be ... at risk, that's something that residential child care licensing will investigate, will look into and make sure those children are pulled away from that risk."
The Department of Homeland Security’s replacement of the so-called “catch and release” policy with “catch and return” has resulted in a significant rise in the number of families detained, even those with very young children, for indefinite periods of time, in some cases in prison-like conditions.

When the Department of Homeland Security opened the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, in May 2006, it proudly proclaimed the former prison as a new model for the increased detention of immigrant families. DHS claimed the new facility was “specially equipped to meet family needs” and would put an end to the separation of families in detention, which advocates had decried for years.

They didn’t quite get it right. When the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service visited Hutto in December, we found that the families held there were treated like criminals.