Lou Dobbs Now Too Soft for Hard Right Immigration Group
December 03, 2009 1:48 PM


Lou Dobbs is now too soft for a hard-right immigration group.

Has he thrown away his base of support? Or improved his chances with the angry middle?

My colleague, ABC News’ Teddy Davis, has the story:

Lou Dobbs has lost the political backing of a hard-right anti-illegal immigration group which had been urging him to run for office for several years.

The former CNN anchor fell out of favor with the conservative Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) after giving a Nov. 20 interview to Telemundo, a Spanish television station, in which he said he wanted to “legalize illegal immigrants on certain conditions.â€