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Calif's Dianne (Joe Lieberman of West) Feinstein & Utah's Larry (FOOT TAPPER) Craig Sneak Another ILLEGAL ALIEN INITIATIVE (AgJobs) Into Iraq War Funding Bill Due This Week: CALL YOUR SENATORS - RI10
California’s Dianne
(Joe Lieberman of
West) Feinstein &
Utah’s Larry
(FOOT TAPPER)
Craig Sneak
Another Pearl Harbor
ILLEGAL ALIEN
INITIATIVE (AgJobs)
Into Iraq War
Funding Bill Due
This Week: CALL
YOUR SENATORS
NOW! - RI10
Tabacco: I no longer automatically TiVo Lou Dobbs. But I periodically monitor his show’s opening to get news that I get nowhere else until it’s too late. The following is one such story and why I still tune in to a guy, who often helps the people’s enemies, not the people, despite his protestations of being a Populist. Sometimes you are, Lou, sometimes!
So you thought you had heard the end of
WRONG! California Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, who represents Special Interests, and Closeted GOP HOMO, Utah’s Larry Craig, who represents Larry Craig (Yes, the Mensroom Foottapper is still in the Senate) have clandestinely and without discussion surreptitiously attached another AgJobs Parasitic Amendment to the War Funding Bill the Senate will consider this week. They will keep on giving us the same BIPARTISAN TREASON until it passes. Evil is nothing if not PERSISTENT – George W. Bush has proven that assessment! We the People must not get tired or bored with fighting back on the same issues. Every time these Corporate Puppets try to SNEAK ONE BY US,
Like Israel’s existence, it only takes one loss for the American citizens to lose everything! Our enemies count on our lack of persistence!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/16/ldt.01.html
LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
Democrats Blast Bush and McCain; No Extra oil from Saudi Arabia; Special Interests sue to Block Border Fence; Senators try to Backdoor an Amendment; Army Vet Running for Congress
Aired May 16, 2008 - 19:00 ET
LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Wolf.
Tonight Senator Obama accusing President Bush of making appalling and divisive attacks against him, accusing Senator McCain of hypocrisy.
Tonight pro amnesty lawmakers are at it again, trying to push their open border agenda through Congress piece by piece with duplicity and without the consent of the people, tonight special interest groups launching their most extensive yet effort -- yet to block more fencing along our border with Mexico.
And Missouri becomes the latest state to take tough action against illegal immigration. We'll have all of that, all the day's news and much more straight ahead here tonight.
ANNOUNCER: This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT: news, debate, and opinion for Friday, May 16. Live from New York, Lou Dobbs.
DOBBS: Good evening, everybody.
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DOBBS: Up next, pro-amnesty lawmakers in Congress still trying to defy the will of people being duplicitous and deceitful, will they ever learn? Probably not.
Kitty Pilgrim will have our report -- Kitty.
KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, they're at it again. Pro-amnesty senators are trying to slip in new guest worker legislation in the dark of night. We'll have the story -- Lou.
DOBBS: Kitty, thank you very much. We look forward to your report.
Also the most extensive effort yet to block the construction of fencing along our border with Mexico, that report.
And one Army veteran so disgusted with our two-party system, he's taking action on his own as an Independent. We'll have his story.
Stay with us. We're coming right back.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: Missouri today became that latest state to approve tough legislation against illegal immigration. Under the new law, which Governor Roy Blunt says he will sign immediately employers could lose their business licenses if they hire illegal aliens. The new law also prohibits illegal aliens from receiving public benefit and bars any Missouri city or town from enacting a sanctuary policy.
The new law requires police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested for a crime and it calls for the state police officers to be trained in immigration law enforcement. Governor Matt Blunt pressured the legislature to pass that bill, a spokesman telling us the governor is expected to sign that bill.
There's an aggressive new effort tonight by special interest groups to block the building of that fence along our border of Mexico. A group in Texas, as you might expect, made of primarily of business interests calls itself the Texas Border Coalition and it is suing the federal government. The class action lawsuit accusing Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff of trampling the rights of Texas landowners.
Bill Tucker has our report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Texas Border Coalition certainly looks the part and they say they're all for border security.
MAYOR CHAD FOSTER, EAGLE PASS, TEXAS: There is nobody more concerned about border security than those of us that live and raise our families on the Texas border. One thing must be said one size does not fit all. What works in California, Arizona, New Mexico, is not necessarily applicable in the state of Texas.
TUCKER: Because apparently border security and a fence do not mix with business interests along the border in Texas, which is what the Texas Border Coalition is, a coalition of mayors, cities, counties, Chambers of Commerce, and economic development communities along the United States/Mexico border in Texas. They're concerned about antagonizing Mexico. MAYOR RAUL SALINAS, LAREDO, TEXAS: We have 13,000 trucks that are crossing every day to and from Mexico, billions of dollars. Laredo is the number one inland port. What are you saying to your trading partners?
TUCKER: The coalition has filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C.
PETER SCHEY, LEAD COUNSEL, TBC: We intend to seek an injunction and (INAUDIBLE) relief through this litigation. We hope that we are able to bring this lawless conduct to build the wall into conformity with both federal statutes and the United States Constitution.
TUCKER: Secretary Chertoff reacted sharply to the lawsuit and charges that he and his office have refused to work in a cooperative way with the people in the communities on the border in Texas.
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: We've had dozens of town hall meetings. We've had constant and consistent efforts at engaging with the public. Now what we haven't done is we haven't given everybody a veto.
TUCKER: Secretary Chertoff termed the fence a tool for law enforcement to fight the gunrunning drug smuggling and human trafficking along the border.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: And Chertoff also noted that Congress mandated the fence and that he built it. He went on to say he is committed to enforcing the laws directed to border security, which he did note might come as a surprise to some people as those laws have been ignored for some time now -- Lou.
DOBBS: Well as Secretary Chertoff knows it won't come to a surprise to anyone associated with this broadcast, we've been reporting exactly that for years now. I would like to say and this is only my opinion, not associated with anyone else's that the mayor of Laredo, Mayor Salinas, what do you say he asked to trading partners?
I would like to ask Mayor Salinas what he says to his fellow Americans and the 300 million Americans who are watching the major portion of all of the major drugs coming into this country originate in Mexico and cross that border, and Mayor Salinas and the fellow that had the hat there in the pictures, from Eagle Pass, the mayor, I would like to say, Mayor, you know, that's a mighty big hat and you need to grow into it and act like an American citizen with responsibilities to your fellow citizens because point blank, Partner, you're responsible for making it absolutely a critical issue for millions of young Americans who are succumbing to the devastation and sometimes the death of illegal drugs crossing that border.
And there is an issue as well. Human smuggling it's not legal, Partner, and it's about time, Partner, you join the rest of this country and concern yourself with the national interest and not your trading partners, Partner. I'd appreciate it if you would just think about it.
Well thank you, Bill Tucker.
Pro-amnesty senators tonight making a new effort to ram their open border's agenda down the throats of the American people, now let's go back to June 28, 2007 when the American people made their views known to the United States Senate and the closer vote failed. It was very clear at that point what the will of the majority in this country was, but now two senators, Dianne Feinstein (ph) and Larry Craig suddenly have added an amendment that would provide amnesty for illegal alien farm workers in this country, they and their family amounting to some three million people.
And they're putting this little number into a bill funding the war in Iraq. You're not supposed to notice. We're not supposed to notice. And the American people are not supposed to notice. These two senators added the amendment in the dark of night, and they did so without debate. They're duplicitous, deceitful, and absolutely dishonorable in doing so.
Kitty Pilgrim has our report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM (voice-over): This meeting yesterday at the Senate Appropriations Committee convened to vote on funding U.S. spending in Iraq. But late in the day 100 pages were added to the bill that would make an estimated three million people illegal alien farm workers and their families eligible to work in the United States and it passed 17 to 12.
SEN. JEFF SESSIONS, (R), ALABAMA: Why would they stick it on a war supplemental? That is a deliberate attempt to bypass scrutiny and to see if they can slide it through without the American people realizing what's happening, on a bill that we really need to pass.
PILGRIM: The supporters of the AG Jobs (ph) Measure, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Larry Craig proposed a program they claim is needed to keep farms operating. Illegal aliens who have either worked for 150 days in agriculture or have earned $7,000 since January 2004 would qualify for a five-year amnesty.
Another measure added by Senator Barbara McCulsky that would open the door to low skilled nonagricultural workers. It would allow anyone who worked on the H2B work visa for the last three years to return for another year without being counted in the annual quota. Groups opposed to this legislation are up in arms.
STEVEN CAMAROTA, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: It's striking how something this controversial and really this important for the country can be put in, in this way without any really public disclosure and discourse and debate. It seems to be the worst aspect of special interest politics.
PILGRIM: Senator Jeff Sessions' office calculates the H2B visa revision could bring in a million more low skilled foreign workers over the next three years.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM: Now this is expected to come to the floor early next week for debate and a vote. Senator Feinstein says it's an emergency to get this passed. And they say it's clear they want to attach it to one of the few pieces of legislation likely to become a law before November.
DOBBS: Let me be clear again, this is only my opinion, not CNN's or anyone else's. But I think this is politics at its dirtiest, its worst, its most duplicitous. And Senator Feinstein I frankly thought was a legislator with more character, more honor. And to be involved in this is utterly just absurd.
PILGRIM: Many of the people we spoke today say it is an absolute abuse of the appropriation process.
DOBBS: It is an abuse and you know what, Senator Harry Reid, I want to remind the Democratic leadership if I may that they are the ones who talked about a culture of corruption in the midterm election campaign in 2006. And I want to congratulate Senator Harry Reid, because you have, I think, in many respects met and outdone the standard set by the Republican leadership when they were in charge in 2006.
You're just as duplicitous, disgusting and absolutely indifferent to the interests of this country as the Republican leadership, so you should be proud. You've kept the culture of corruption alive and well in our nation's Capitol. I just hope that somebody, somebody in this country finally gets a belly full of your nonsense. Because this country needs far better than what we're getting from these two political parties.
Kitty thank you very much -- Kitty Pilgrim.
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