Thread: Get Briefed: Lou Dobbs

You've talked in the past about illegal immigration. How would you say the U.S. is doing on that front?

Well, I do think that we are moving in the right direction. We have certainly, in this administration and the previous, talking about unconditional amnesty. If there is any lesson over the past decade it is that this is a warm, welcoming, energetic economy and nation. But we cannot responsibly continue to leave open our borders and our port for the purposes of a responsible immigration policy. I've made it very clear that I'm in favor of higher levels of immigration into this country if indeed the economy and our society requires it and if it is an expression of conscious public policy. That said, why are we not talking about it in terms of the needs of the nation and the needs of the businesses and the economy for labor. And what type of labor we should be bringing in. We don't have those discussions, we don't have that dialogue because so many people have chosen to follow an illegal path to meeting labor needs rather than a legal path. We've got to change that.

Immigration itself … we bring in more than three million people into this country lawfully. We naturalize more than a million people as citizens in this country every year. No country on earth even approaches our levels of immigration. We should be very proud of that. But instead, we have a distorted and I believe utterly fraudulent public discussion on the part of our elected officials when it comes to illegal immigration, border and port security. And they really need to be intellectually honest and straightforward about it.

What do you see as our needs for illegal immigration and what types of laborers do we need?

I believe absolutely that we have a need for significant levels of immigration. I think that they're about right at this time for an economy that is growing, modestly, but still growing; for a population that continues to demand more labor. So I'm satisfied with current immigration levels.

I believe that illegal immigration, we should make certain we end it and make certain that if we are going to bring in those people, it should be part of our current immigration policy. We should be abiding by our laws and our regulations rather than swamping them.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/06/glass- ... gechannels

What a disappointment Lou turned out to be.

Our economy is not "growing", it's collapsed and sinking like a rotten turnip in a slop bucket, LOU.

Our current immigration levels are NOT fine, LOU! They're totally excessive, far beyond any possibility of ever being sustainable, and must be cut back to the 1970's replacement levels immediately exactly like NumbersUSA recommends with a moratorium for a few years to allow even that level to become acceptable.

Lou says:

"I believe that illegal immigration, we should make certain we end it and make certain that if we are going to bring in those people, it should be part of our current immigration policy. We should be abiding by our laws and our regulations rather than swamping them."

LOU! What kind of double-talk, double-speak crap is that??!! We don't want to bring in "those people" under any plan. Illegal aliens are not welcome in the US, they are here in violation of our laws, they need to be deported and they need to be kept out. Period.