Thread: Lou Dobbs on a roll tonight - report on the NAU!

From Lou Dobbs Tonight – October 27, 2006

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The White House tonight still hasn't responded to 12 Republican congressmen who are demanding a presidential pardon for U.S. border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Those congressmen want to send a letter. They did so today.

Ramos and Compean sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler who was granted immunity from prosecution by the U.S. attorney in Texas. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow has called talk of a pardon for those agents nonsensical.

Today Snow said the White House will wait on congressional hearings on the case before responding to that letter. Those hearings don't begin until late next month.

New efforts tonight to fight a plan by some corporate business leaders and their political allies that could erode the United States sovereignty. The organizers are fighting a proposed North American union that could leave our nation vulnerable on many fronts.

Lisa Sylvester reports.

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LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mexican truck drivers may soon haul cargo deep into the heart of the United States. They're currently limited to within 20 miles of the U.S. border. It could mean U.S. job losses and serve as a gateway for human and drug smuggling.

TODD SPENCER, INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION: This would basically make a driver from Mexico be able to freely go about throughout the United States, and to us that's scary from a safety standpoint, but it's especially scary from a standpoint of security.

SYLVESTER: Critics say U.S. sovereignty is also on the line. To understand, go back to 2005. President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and then Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin launched what's called the Security and Prosperity Partnership, a trade and economic partnership that many see as a precursor to a North American union modeled after Europe.

JEROME CORTIS, COALITION TO BLOCK NORTH AMERICAN UNION: There's hardly a major area of public policy where the Bush administration has not, through the SPP working groups, rewritten our administrative law and regulations from being U.S. in nature to being North American in nature.

SYLVESTER: The coalition to block the North American union wants to defeat a proposed NAFTA superhighway that would stretch from Texas all the way to Canada.

Congress has been left largely out of the loop.

JOHN MCMANUS, JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: They never even heard of this. They don't know a thing about it. What's going on? Well, what's going on is a super elite are taking control.

SYLVESTER: Lawmakers who have heard are hell bent on keeping a North American union from happening.

REP. VIRGIL GOODE (R), VIRGINIA: The interests of hard-working businesses in this country, hard-working workers in this country, and the average citizen in the United States should be placed ahead, in my opinion, of some international global theory that I think would harm the United States and most of its citizenry.

SYLVESTER: President Bush just signed the fence bill, saying the borders need to be secured.

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SYLVESTER: At the same time, the U.S. Department of Transportation is considering this program to open the borders wide open to Mexican truck drivers and to create a NAFTA superhighway. Even though transportation officials say they would check the licensing and backgrounds of foreign truck drivers, it would be a bureaucratic nightmare to enforce -- Lou.

DOBBS: These three countries moving ahead their governments without authorization from the American people, without congressional approval, this is straightforward an attack on national sovereignty as there could be, outside of war.

SYLVESTER: And they are doing this behind closed doors, as you mentioned. Congress has been left out of the loop. People don't even know what they are coming up with. But what's clear at this point is that they are moving ahead with this North American union and putting these plans in place.

Very frightening -- Lou.

DOBBS: Lisa, thank you very much.

Lisa Sylvester.

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The government of Mexico tonight is threatening, again, the national security and sovereignty of this nation, and some would say insulting the United States. Mexico says the United States has no right to build a new 700-mile fence along our southern border with Mexico. It appears the White House is not concerned in the least by the statements of Mexico's leading national officials.

Casey Wian is in Los Angeles, and has the latest for us -- Casey.

WIAN: Well, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Lou, said that the signing of the bill to build 700 miles of fence along the U.S./Mexican border is an embarrassment. His successor, President-elect Felipe Calderon, called it "a grave error," and U.S. President George Bush says he understands their sensitivities.

Apparently, the three men believe they have a shared interest in keeping the borders open, if you will. For example, Mexico depends on the United States. The Mexicans living in the United States, both legally and illegally, send $25 billion a year in remittances, the money they send home. It's one of the most crucial factors in Mexico's economy.

The United States has become a pressure relief valve for Mexico. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 percent of Mexican citizens are now living in the United States, economic refugees.

So if that fence gets built, and if it gets built along the entire southern border with Mexico and if the United States uses other tactics, including more Border Patrol agents, the National Guard, more technology to really secure the border, all of that money that Mexico receives from its citizens in the United States is at risk.

And of course, President Bush's interest in this seems to be more with corporate America, which has become absolutely addicted to the cheap illegal alien labor that primarily comes to this country from Mexico -- Lou.

DOBBS: Casey, addiction goes a long way to explain much of what is happening. You mentioned the addiction on the part of employers to cheap illegal labor. There's also the addiction to drugs. Mexico, the primary source of methamphetamines, the primary source of cocaine, the primary source of marijuana being distributed and sold in this country, generating about $25 billion -- some say $40 billion -- a year to Mexico.

This looks like a commercial interest being expressed by the president and president-elect of Mexico. One wonders, if they are embarrassed by the prospect of a fence, why they aren't embarrassed by impoverishing half of their nation -- just about half of the Mexican people live in poverty -- drug cartel violence is raging out of control throughout that country, they are the source of illegal drugs, source of illegal immigration. You would think that they would have both shame and be considerably embarrassed themselves rather than spewing the rhetoric that they did today.

WIAN: You would think so. Mexico, as you know, Lou, consistently blames the United States for the drug problems along the border. They blame consumers in the United States for that drug problem. Yet, they have taken no action, almost no action, and certainly no successful action to control the out-of-control drug violence on the Mexican border.

So it seems to be easier to point the finger at the United States for at least trying to do something to control this problem.

DOBBS: And there's, of course, no question at all that we have been singularly unsuccessful in curbing that demand and certainly interdicting the supply of drugs into this country. You would think there would be considerable embarrassment in this country for other reasons. Perhaps securing those borders, we'll be able to remove some of the reasons for embarrassment -- much, I'm sure, to the discomfort of the corrupt and incompetent government of Mexico.

Casey Wian, thank you very much.

President Fox, bite me! YOU have the resources to change things in your country but YOU and the other elites of Mexico and other countries DON'T want to do that! Mexico is the richest country in latin america and the 10th richest in the world and yet half of your population lives in poverty! DUH! NO, you would rather send your uneducated masses here so they can enrich you further! Why in the H_ _L the illegals cannot grasp this is beyond me. OH, I forgot, they are for the most part uneducated! Very easily swayed because they do not have the education (not to mention the fact that they have been oppressed)! Seems to me they are perfect for you and other globalist to exploit. To oppressed and dumb to understand that Mexico and the US corporations are using them and US! They are playing the good little pawns. Sadly to many Americans are being played as pawns also.

We have people in this country living in poverty! We have Veterans for petes sake living on THE STREETS! Men and women that fought for this country! We are losing our health care, we are losing hospitals and ER's,
jobs, the list goes on and on. We have tried for YEARS to take care of other countries problems only to see the corrupt governments take what we send and hord it unto themselves and give nothing to the people.

We can NO longer do this at the expense of this country especially when they don't have an ounce of gratitude for the pouring out of help (and I mean the American People's donations, not those of the government which is OUR taxpayer money).

My thoughts....

Cut off all foreign aid to countries that have demonstrated that they are NOT using these funds to help the people of that country.

Reverse free trade agreements that have not helped ANYONE but the elites!

Seal the damned borders. Anyone in their right mind after 9-11 would have done this post haste.

We are not a COMMODITY! Stop using us, the citizens of this country as something to be bartered! At least we have a soul that has not been sold out to the devil.

Men and women have fought and died for this country. The SPP is total treachory and a slap in the face of the men and women that fought for and are ARE STILL fighting and dying for what we are supposed to be.

AMERICA, STOP putting movie stars, sports figures, and others as HEROS! The TRUE heros are our police officers, border patrol agents, firefighters, and the men and women in our military that put their lives on the line everyday for US!. THEY are the TRUE heros!

Chamber of Commerce...take a flying LEAP. We all know what side you are on and it is CERTAINLY not the American worker

Banks, you are so totally bent on keeping us in dept and subservient it is not even funny.

First the bankruptcy laws are changed to make it harder for anyone to file (now if someone knows that they are heading in this direction and goes out and charges a lot of stuff they should be prosecuted)! But NO, it has to be painted with a broad brush! NOW people that find themsleves in dire straits due to medical reasons, divorce, etc. are screwed! THEN to pour salt in the wound, the powers that be let the banks raise minimum payments on credit cards DOUBLE! Now the people that, through no fault of their own, that are alreday struggling, go over the deep end. Oh it gets better! NOW you have all of these companies saying OH MINIMUM PAYMENT ON YOUR CREDIT CARDS HAVE DOUBLED!!!!!!!!!! Refinance your mortgage! Now you have all these people refinancing out of desperation to try and at least keep a roof over their head and the unscrupulous companies putting them in adjustable rate mortgages! We all know (I hope) about those!

How easy the dots connect for those that can think outside of the box. What is sad is that the younger generation lacks this and this is on purpose.The baby boomers are a thorn in the side of the elites. Why, because we know to much of our history and we know BS when we see it.

Sorry guys, I have been wanting to get this off my chest for a long time.

God, keep this country and the people that see what is happening safe. I am not a church goer, but I still believe.

Great post, OHFLY!