Thread: Lou Dobbs Tonight Friday, June 6, 2008

Lou Dobbs Tonight
Friday, June 6, 2008

Tonight, more bad news about our beaten-down economy. The
unemployment rate jumped half a point to 5.5 percent, the
biggest increase in 22 years. And the economy lost another
50,000 jobs. How are the presidential candidates responding?
We’ll have that story and all the day’s news from Washington.
Plus:

* A tragic example this month of how greed-filled business
interests take advantage of cheap immigrant labor: In
California, 17-year-old Maria Vasquez died from heat stroke
after picking grapes in 95-degree weather for over eight hours.
Vasquez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was denied water,
shade, and prompt medical assistance by the site supervisor, in
violation of labor laws. She was two months pregnant. The
company she was working for makes the popular Charles Shaw wine
know as “Two Buck Chuckâ€

[quote]* A tragic example this month of how greed-filled business
interests take advantage of cheap immigrant labor: In
California, 17-year-old Maria Vasquez died from heat stroke
after picking grapes in 95-degree weather for over eight hours.
Vasquez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was denied water,
shade, and prompt medical assistance by the site supervisor, in
violation of labor laws. She was two months pregnant. The
company she was working for makes the popular Charles Shaw wine
know as “Two Buck Chuckâ€

Per Dobbs' program -

Merced Farm Labor was the labor subcontractor to mentioned wine producer.

They are having their business license revoked (I think, that's correct) and they are being investigated and prosecuted for the blatant labor violation.
I can post the transcript up when it's ready.

.... Another victim of illegal employment practices (a.k.a. 'slavery').

The United Nations is criticizing Prince William County, Virginia for its strident measures to crackdown on illegal immigration, calling the county’s efforts a violation of human rights.

To Hell with the United Nations. Those people aren't even supposed to be here. The U.N. would love nothing better than to take away our sovereignty.