Thread: NEW CNN/DOBBS March 11, 2005

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

NEW CNN/DOBBS POLL

Do you believe the U.S. government should demand that the Mexican
government stop its campaign to encourage Mexican citizens to break
U.S. immigration laws?
Yes 96% 4871 votes
No 4% 201 votes
Total: 5072 votes

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/


Snip from last nights transcript:
March 11, 2005
• Illegal Aliens Have Little Incentive to Enter Legally; Border
Between Mexico, Texas Easy to Cross; Drug Trafficking Flourishing
Despite Increase Mexican Enforcement


LOU DOBBS, HOST: Tonight, the 20 million illegal aliens living in this
country have little reason to seek legal status or citizenship. They
enjoy most, if not all, the same benefits as U.S. citizens and legal
immigrants. And there's little or no chance that they will be caught.
Tonight we report on some of what's gone wrong with our immigration
policies. I'll be joined by one congressman who's urging the White
House to awaken to our illegal alien crisis.

BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When it comes to
immigration, there's the illegal way, and last year an estimated three
million people broke the law by the way they entered the United
States.

And then there's the legal way, the path followed by roughly 800,000
people every year, according to the American Immigration Lawyers
Association.

For those who come here illegally, there is no shortage of work. This
man has been in the country for 12 years without a visa or work
papers. He picks up work in construction waiting on this street in New
Jersey.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Not a problem, no. No, I've
worked a lot in Manhattan. Now I work here. It's not a problem. I
haven't worried.

TUCKER: He's not worried, because there is little risk of him getting
in trouble. State and local police aren't interested in arresting day
laborers unless they break the law, other than the law they broke
entering the country.

In 10 states illegal aliens even can get a driver's license.

This man also entered the country illegally. He, however, is in the
middle of a process for applying for a visa. He is worried, which is
why he's attempting to become legal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right here, we know papers is really dangerous,
that anywhere they can grab you, and that's it, you know. You've got
to go back to your country.

TUCKER: Many of the people trying to immigrate, in fact, are people
who are already here, legally here, and who want to stay longer. And
in order to get that green card or the legal OK, they will have to
stay longer.

MATTHEW DUNN, AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: If you are a
restaurant worker, or someone in one of these lower relegated jobs, it
probably could take up to six, seven years. If you're someone who is
more of a professional status, it takes about three, four years to go
through the whole process.

TUCKER: The choice looks simple when looked at through a timeline:
days versus years.

(END VIDEOTAPE) TUCKER: In its report on the underground economy
published in January, Bear Stearns found that there are roughly 20
million people here illegally. Clearly, the system is broken, Lou. On
the one hand, we stymie those who would enter this country legally,
and then with the other, we accept people who enter it illegally.

DOBBS: Absolutely. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.

Well, we've reported extensively here on how easy it is for illegal
aliens to cross our wide-open borders.

Just last week, our reporter Lisa Sylvester witnessed several illegal
aliens sneaking across the border within less than an hour. She
reports now from Webb County, Texas.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There are five bridges
connecting the United States and Mexico in Webb County, Texas, but
there are countless ways to sneak into the United States.

These two men swam across the Rio Grande and made a break for it, in
broad daylight, right under one of the U.S. checkpoints. Twenty
minutes later, three more men scale a fence to enter the United States
illegally.

RAY GARDNER, DIRECTOR, LCC POLICE ACADEMY: We do have a long stretch
of border with the river, and they can swim across it. Don't even have
to swim. In some areas they're able to wade across it.

SYLVESTER (on camera): In Webb County, Texas alone, there are 80 miles
of riverfront. Much of it is brush. And here the only thing separating
the United States and Mexico is the Rio Grande River.

(voice-over): Webb County sheriff's deputies show us the paths used by
human smugglers. Illegal aliens carry dry clothes in a black trash
bag. Bags and inner tubes litter the riverbank on the American side.

Drug dealers also use these routes, and so could terrorists. Sheriff
Rick Flores is concerned about the possibility that al Qaeda could use
Mexico as a back door into the United States.

SHERIFF RICK FLORES, WEBB COUNTY, TEXAS: For a very long time, I think
we've been ignored. I don't think we've been taken serious along the
border of Mexico, and I think it's time that they reevaluate the
potential for -- the potential threat for terrorism in this area and
how they make their way through.

SYLVESTER: U.S. border patrol has only 1,000 agents in the Laredo
sector that stretches 110,000 square miles and includes non- border
cities like Dallas and San Antonio.

CHIEF JOHN MONTOYA, U.S. BORDER PATROL, LAREDO SECTOR: There are some
areas that at this point we can't physically get to. And again, that
concerns that someone might breach our security in that area, that
worries me a lot.

SYLVESTER: The U.S. border patrol uses mounted cameras and motion
sensors for added security, but there are still miles and miles of
open territory.

Lisa Sylvester, CNN, Webb County, Texas.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

DOBBS: Our nation's porous borders, or lack absolutely of border
control, also keep open the flow of billions in illegal drugs into
this country. Mexican drug runners are now fighting a violent battle
to control the drug trade, and hundreds of people, including many
Americans, are being murdered in the process.

Lucia Newman reports from Mexico.


LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sinaloa, Mexico, is home
to Mexico's biggest drug kingpins, and to a shrine, the shrine of
Jesus Malverde, a former bandit revered by drug traffickers as their
patron saint. The plaques a tribute to helping to clear the way for
their narcotics, a symbol of the pervasiveness of the drug culture in
much of Mexico, a culture with an ugly face.

So far this year, nearly 200 bodies have appeared near the
U.S./Mexican border, where the violence seems out of control. The
killings are mainly among the traffickers themselves, but the
economic, political and social instability this violence generates in
the country is brutal, says investigative journalist Maria Ivalia (ph)
Gomez.

True, the Fox government has put record numbers of traffickers behind
bars and has created an elite agency called AFI, to combat organized
crime and corruption.

(on camera): These agents are better educated and better paid than the
rest, but even this intelligence agency, which is Mexico's version of
the FBI, has not been immune to the temptation of drug money.

(voice-over): Washington's recent public demands that Mexico do more
to stop organized crime along the border has further poisoned already
tense relations.

ANTONIO GARZA, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO: But where the safety and
security of U.S. citizens are at stake, I will never hesitate to speak
out forcefully and unequivocally.

NEWSMAN: Interior Minister Santiago Creel insists progress is being
made and accuses Washington of humiliating Mexico in public.

SANTIAGO CREEL, MEXICAN INTERIOR MINISTER: That's not the way to treat
a partner, a neighbor, a friend. NEWMAN: A dispute that's doing
nothing to improve the cooperation needed to stop the flow and the
consumption of narcotics on both sides of the border.

Lucia Newman, CNN, Mexico City.


DOBBS: That brings us to the subject of tonight's poll. The question,
"Do you believe the U.S. government should now demand that the Mexican
government stop its campaign of encouragement for its citizens to
break U.S. immigration laws?" Yes or no, cast your vote at
LouDobbs.com. We'll have the results later in the broadcast.

We'll have much more ahead on the dangerous situation that is
developing along our southern border with Mexico, and the urgent need
to control our southern border. Republican Congressman Dana
Rohrabacher of California has taken a leading role in calling upon the
White House to take immediate action. He's our guest here tonight.


Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just returned from her first
official visit to Mexico as secretary of state. Thirty-two House
Republican congressmen had called on Secretary Rice to stand up to the
Mexican government during her visit in a very strongly-worded letter.
The lawmakers urged Rice to "call on the government of Mexico to cease
desist from its flagrant campaign to encourage its citizens to violate
the immigration laws and sovereign borders of the United States of
America."

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California, was among those signing
the letter. He joins us tonight from Irvine, California. Congressman,
good you have to you with us.

REP. DANA ROHRABACHER, (R) CALIFORNIA: Thank you very much.

DOBBS: It is first, it strikes me, utterly astonishing that such a
letter would be necessary given the facts, the evidence, the
overwhelming facts that are just incontrovertible about the invasion
of our country.

ROHRABACHER: Well, the fact that I signed the letters indicates that I
agree with what you just said. And we have a -- you know, I think the
estimates on how many illegals are pouring into our country is
actually a low estimate. I believe there's as many as 20 million
illegals. And in California, the main source of that illegal
immigration is Mexico.

DOBBS: And the Mexican government has been absolutely arrogant in its
demands that the United States take care of illegal aliens in this
country, arrogant in its demands that we work, Mr. Creel referring to
it as a partnership, while at the same time blatantly, flagrantly,
openly encouraging its citizens to cross our border. There is no
precedent anywhere in the world for this.

ROHRABACHER: Well, making it even more arrogant, when one considers
the fact that Mexico has great natural resources, Mexico has every
means available of having a strong economy that could have an
uplifting economy for all of the standard living of their people.
Instead, they have to send their people to us, because their
government is so corrupt that the people cannot have a strong economy.

When you have people who have caused the poverty of their own people
making demands upon us, that is the height of arrogance.

DOBBS: And there's some considerable arrogance on this side of the
border as well, Congressman. The idea that this administration would
push for a guest worker program that is nothing less than outright
amnesty, that the United States government would defy it's laws and
not enforce them, that the United States Congress, frankly, would not
insist upon the enforcement of the laws, that the Homeland Security
Department with that name emblazoned in its mission as well as its
description, to leave these borders wide open is absolutely befuddling
and outrageous.

ROHRABACHER: Well, let me note that it's not just border control that
we're talking about. We're talking about ending the flood of illegals
into our country. The border control is part of it, but we have to
come to the realization that we can't give free education, free health
care and free services to anybody who can come here if they come here
illegally, and expect that we're not going to have millions of people
coming here. That's part of the solution.

And what we've got now in Congress, what we have got in the
administration, both the Democratic party and the Republican parties
are not willing to take the tough -- make the tough decisions to
protect our own people.

DOBBS: Congressman, again, I don't know how your constituents are
responding, but I can tell you the audience of this broadcast, our
viewers are absolutely outraged. They're outraged on everything -- the
very idea that we would propose something like the Dream Act, to the
Agriculture Jobs Act, to...

ROHRABACHER: I'm with you, but look those people who are outraged,
they need to put their senators and Congressmen on the spot. Whenever
they meet their Congressmen, they have got to check the voting
records. There's only about, I would say, about one half of the
Republican party in the House, and all of the Democrats are on the
wrong side. And half the Republicans are on the wrong side. We're the
only ones who are willing to take a stand.

Make sure your congressman steps up to the plate. Check the issues.
Especially check your United States Senators. They're supporting,
you're right an invasion of this country, taking wealth and services,
that education away from our children health care away from our
people, that should be going to our own people, but instead are being
consumed by illegal immigrants. But it's up to the people to express
that rage to their elected representatives, and I encourage them to do
it. I'm happy you are as well.

DOBBS: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, we thank you for that. And you
just heard Congressman Rohrabacher, he said it pretty clearly, let
your Congressman, let your Senator know exactly how you feel about
this issue. We're getting a pretty good sense of how you feel about
this issue on this broadcast. Congressman Rohrabacher, we thank you
for being here. Good luck.

ROHRABACHER: Thank you.

DOBBS: A reminder now to vote in our poll. The question, "do you
believe the U.S. government should demand that the Mexican government
stop its campaign to encourage its citizens to break U.S. immigration
laws? Yes or no?" Cast your vote at loudobbs.com. We'll have the
results later here in the broadcast.

Taking a look now at some of your thoughts. Keith Jefferson in
Memphis, Tennessee wrote to say, "since our president is interested in
promoting democracy, he should give some advice to our southern
neighbor, maybe then they can keep their citizens from invading our
borders."

Jeff Reedstrom of Port Huron, Michigan, "as a member of the U.S.
border patrol, I'm glad to see that someone is taking up the issue of
illegal immigration. As a 17-year member of the U.S. Border Patrol,
I've seen many changes. Each year, and with each president, we lose
more authority and gain more restrictions on how we can do our job.
Congress and the president need to be pushed to do the will of the
people of the United States, enforce the borders and remove illegal
aliens from this country."

Larry Johnson in Kokomo, Indiana, "if the constant shipping of U.S.
jobs to China, illegal immigrants flooding our country and taking
workers jobs and taxpayer dollars and issuing a massive drive to
destroy the Social Security system for workers, old and young alike,
is being conservative, perhaps being liberal isn't such a bad label
after all."

Send us your thoughts at loudobbs.com. Each of you whose e-mail is
read on this broadcast receives a copy of my book "Exporting America."
And to sign up on our e-mail news letter, sign up on our Web site
loudobbs.com.
___________
Contact your Congressional reps toll free at: 1-877-762-8762
or www.senate.gov and www.house.gov

White House: 1-202-456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

NEW CNN/DOBBS POLL

Do you believe the U.S. government should demand that the Mexican
government stop its campaign to encourage Mexican citizens to break
U.S. immigration laws?
Yes 96% 4871 votes
No 4% 201 votes
Total: 5072 votes

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/


Snip from last nights transcript:
March 11, 2005
• Illegal Aliens Have Little Incentive to Enter Legally; Border
Between Mexico, Texas Easy to Cross; Drug Trafficking Flourishing
Despite Increase Mexican Enforcement


LOU DOBBS, HOST: Tonight, the 20 million illegal aliens living in this
country have little reason to seek legal status or citizenship. They
enjoy most, if not all, the same benefits as U.S. citizens and legal
immigrants. And there's little or no chance that they will be caught.
Tonight we report on some of what's gone wrong with our immigration
policies. I'll be joined by one congressman who's urging the White
House to awaken to our illegal alien crisis.

BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When it comes to
immigration, there's the illegal way, and last year an estimated three
million people broke the law by the way they entered the United
States.

And then there's the legal way, the path followed by roughly 800,000
people every year, according to the American Immigration Lawyers
Association.

For those who come here illegally, there is no shortage of work. This
man has been in the country for 12 years without a visa or work
papers. He picks up work in construction waiting on this street in New
Jersey.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Not a problem, no. No, I've
worked a lot in Manhattan. Now I work here. It's not a problem. I
haven't worried.

TUCKER: He's not worried, because there is little risk of him getting
in trouble. State and local police aren't interested in arresting day
laborers unless they break the law, other than the law they broke
entering the country.

In 10 states illegal aliens even can get a driver's license.

This man also entered the country illegally. He, however, is in the
middle of a process for applying for a visa. He is worried, which is
why he's attempting to become legal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right here, we know papers is really dangerous,
that anywhere they can grab you, and that's it, you know. You've got
to go back to your country.

TUCKER: Many of the people trying to immigrate, in fact, are people
who are already here, legally here, and who want to stay longer. And
in order to get that green card or the legal OK, they will have to
stay longer.

MATTHEW DUNN, AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: If you are a
restaurant worker, or someone in one of these lower relegated jobs, it
probably could take up to six, seven years. If you're someone who is
more of a professional status, it takes about three, four years to go
through the whole process.

TUCKER: The choice looks simple when looked at through a timeline:
days versus years.

(END VIDEOTAPE) TUCKER: In its report on the underground economy
published in January, Bear Stearns found that there are roughly 20
million people here illegally. Clearly, the system is broken, Lou. On
the one hand, we stymie those who would enter this country legally,
and then with the other, we accept people who enter it illegally.

DOBBS: Absolutely. Bill Tucker, thank you very much.

Well, we've reported extensively here on how easy it is for illegal
aliens to cross our wide-open borders.

Just last week, our reporter Lisa Sylvester witnessed several illegal
aliens sneaking across the border within less than an hour. She
reports now from Webb County, Texas.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There are five bridges
connecting the United States and Mexico in Webb County, Texas, but
there are countless ways to sneak into the United States.

These two men swam across the Rio Grande and made a break for it, in
broad daylight, right under one of the U.S. checkpoints. Twenty
minutes later, three more men scale a fence to enter the United States
illegally.

RAY GARDNER, DIRECTOR, LCC POLICE ACADEMY: We do have a long stretch
of border with the river, and they can swim across it. Don't even have
to swim. In some areas they're able to wade across it.

SYLVESTER (on camera): In Webb County, Texas alone, there are 80 miles
of riverfront. Much of it is brush. And here the only thing separating
the United States and Mexico is the Rio Grande River.

(voice-over): Webb County sheriff's deputies show us the paths used by
human smugglers. Illegal aliens carry dry clothes in a black trash
bag. Bags and inner tubes litter the riverbank on the American side.

Drug dealers also use these routes, and so could terrorists. Sheriff
Rick Flores is concerned about the possibility that al Qaeda could use
Mexico as a back door into the United States.

SHERIFF RICK FLORES, WEBB COUNTY, TEXAS: For a very long time, I think
we've been ignored. I don't think we've been taken serious along the
border of Mexico, and I think it's time that they reevaluate the
potential for -- the potential threat for terrorism in this area and
how they make their way through.

SYLVESTER: U.S. border patrol has only 1,000 agents in the Laredo
sector that stretches 110,000 square miles and includes non- border
cities like Dallas and San Antonio.

CHIEF JOHN MONTOYA, U.S. BORDER PATROL, LAREDO SECTOR: There are some
areas that at this point we can't physically get to. And again, that
concerns that someone might breach our security in that area, that
worries me a lot.

SYLVESTER: The U.S. border patrol uses mounted cameras and motion
sensors for added security, but there are still miles and miles of
open territory.

Lisa Sylvester, CNN, Webb County, Texas.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

DOBBS: Our nation's porous borders, or lack absolutely of border
control, also keep open the flow of billions in illegal drugs into
this country. Mexican drug runners are now fighting a violent battle
to control the drug trade, and hundreds of people, including many
Americans, are being murdered in the process.

Lucia Newman reports from Mexico.


LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sinaloa, Mexico, is home
to Mexico's biggest drug kingpins, and to a shrine, the shrine of
Jesus Malverde, a former bandit revered by drug traffickers as their
patron saint. The plaques a tribute to helping to clear the way for
their narcotics, a symbol of the pervasiveness of the drug culture in
much of Mexico, a culture with an ugly face.

So far this year, nearly 200 bodies have appeared near the
U.S./Mexican border, where the violence seems out of control. The
killings are mainly among the traffickers themselves, but the
economic, political and social instability this violence generates in
the country is brutal, says investigative journalist Maria Ivalia (ph)
Gomez.

True, the Fox government has put record numbers of traffickers behind
bars and has created an elite agency called AFI, to combat organized
crime and corruption.

(on camera): These agents are better educated and better paid than the
rest, but even this intelligence agency, which is Mexico's version of
the FBI, has not been immune to the temptation of drug money.

(voice-over): Washington's recent public demands that Mexico do more
to stop organized crime along the border has further poisoned already
tense relations.

ANTONIO GARZA, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO: But where the safety and
security of U.S. citizens are at stake, I will never hesitate to speak
out forcefully and unequivocally.

NEWSMAN: Interior Minister Santiago Creel insists progress is being
made and accuses Washington of humiliating Mexico in public.

SANTIAGO CREEL, MEXICAN INTERIOR MINISTER: That's not the way to treat
a partner, a neighbor, a friend. NEWMAN: A dispute that's doing
nothing to improve the cooperation needed to stop the flow and the
consumption of narcotics on both sides of the border.

Lucia Newman, CNN, Mexico City.


DOBBS: That brings us to the subject of tonight's poll. The question,
"Do you believe the U.S. government should now demand that the Mexican
government stop its campaign of encouragement for its citizens to
break U.S. immigration laws?" Yes or no, cast your vote at
LouDobbs.com. We'll have the results later in the broadcast.

We'll have much more ahead on the dangerous situation that is
developing along our southern border with Mexico, and the urgent need
to control our southern border. Republican Congressman Dana
Rohrabacher of California has taken a leading role in calling upon the
White House to take immediate action. He's our guest here tonight.


Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just returned from her first
official visit to Mexico as secretary of state. Thirty-two House
Republican congressmen had called on Secretary Rice to stand up to the
Mexican government during her visit in a very strongly-worded letter.
The lawmakers urged Rice to "call on the government of Mexico to cease
desist from its flagrant campaign to encourage its citizens to violate
the immigration laws and sovereign borders of the United States of
America."

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California, was among those signing
the letter. He joins us tonight from Irvine, California. Congressman,
good you have to you with us.

REP. DANA ROHRABACHER, (R) CALIFORNIA: Thank you very much.

DOBBS: It is first, it strikes me, utterly astonishing that such a
letter would be necessary given the facts, the evidence, the
overwhelming facts that are just incontrovertible about the invasion
of our country.

ROHRABACHER: Well, the fact that I signed the letters indicates that I
agree with what you just said. And we have a -- you know, I think the
estimates on how many illegals are pouring into our country is
actually a low estimate. I believe there's as many as 20 million
illegals. And in California, the main source of that illegal
immigration is Mexico.

DOBBS: And the Mexican government has been absolutely arrogant in its
demands that the United States take care of illegal aliens in this
country, arrogant in its demands that we work, Mr. Creel referring to
it as a partnership, while at the same time blatantly, flagrantly,
openly encouraging its citizens to cross our border. There is no
precedent anywhere in the world for this.

ROHRABACHER: Well, making it even more arrogant, when one considers
the fact that Mexico has great natural resources, Mexico has every
means available of having a strong economy that could have an
uplifting economy for all of the standard living of their people.
Instead, they have to send their people to us, because their
government is so corrupt that the people cannot have a strong economy.

When you have people who have caused the poverty of their own people
making demands upon us, that is the height of arrogance.

DOBBS: And there's some considerable arrogance on this side of the
border as well, Congressman. The idea that this administration would
push for a guest worker program that is nothing less than outright
amnesty, that the United States government would defy it's laws and
not enforce them, that the United States Congress, frankly, would not
insist upon the enforcement of the laws, that the Homeland Security
Department with that name emblazoned in its mission as well as its
description, to leave these borders wide open is absolutely befuddling
and outrageous.

ROHRABACHER: Well, let me note that it's not just border control that
we're talking about. We're talking about ending the flood of illegals
into our country. The border control is part of it, but we have to
come to the realization that we can't give free education, free health
care and free services to anybody who can come here if they come here
illegally, and expect that we're not going to have millions of people
coming here. That's part of the solution.

And what we've got now in Congress, what we have got in the
administration, both the Democratic party and the Republican parties
are not willing to take the tough -- make the tough decisions to
protect our own people.

DOBBS: Congressman, again, I don't know how your constituents are
responding, but I can tell you the audience of this broadcast, our
viewers are absolutely outraged. They're outraged on everything -- the
very idea that we would propose something like the Dream Act, to the
Agriculture Jobs Act, to...

ROHRABACHER: I'm with you, but look those people who are outraged,
they need to put their senators and Congressmen on the spot. Whenever
they meet their Congressmen, they have got to check the voting
records. There's only about, I would say, about one half of the
Republican party in the House, and all of the Democrats are on the
wrong side. And half the Republicans are on the wrong side. We're the
only ones who are willing to take a stand.

Make sure your congressman steps up to the plate. Check the issues.
Especially check your United States Senators. They're supporting,
you're right an invasion of this country, taking wealth and services,
that education away from our children health care away from our
people, that should be going to our own people, but instead are being
consumed by illegal immigrants. But it's up to the people to express
that rage to their elected representatives, and I encourage them to do
it. I'm happy you are as well.

DOBBS: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, we thank you for that. And you
just heard Congressman Rohrabacher, he said it pretty clearly, let
your Congressman, let your Senator know exactly how you feel about
this issue. We're getting a pretty good sense of how you feel about
this issue on this broadcast. Congressman Rohrabacher, we thank you
for being here. Good luck.

ROHRABACHER: Thank you.

DOBBS: A reminder now to vote in our poll. The question, "do you
believe the U.S. government should demand that the Mexican government
stop its campaign to encourage its citizens to break U.S. immigration
laws? Yes or no?" Cast your vote at loudobbs.com. We'll have the
results later here in the broadcast.

Taking a look now at some of your thoughts. Keith Jefferson in
Memphis, Tennessee wrote to say, "since our president is interested in
promoting democracy, he should give some advice to our southern
neighbor, maybe then they can keep their citizens from invading our
borders."

Jeff Reedstrom of Port Huron, Michigan, "as a member of the U.S.
border patrol, I'm glad to see that someone is taking up the issue of
illegal immigration. As a 17-year member of the U.S. Border Patrol,
I've seen many changes. Each year, and with each president, we lose
more authority and gain more restrictions on how we can do our job.
Congress and the president need to be pushed to do the will of the
people of the United States, enforce the borders and remove illegal
aliens from this country."

Larry Johnson in Kokomo, Indiana, "if the constant shipping of U.S.
jobs to China, illegal immigrants flooding our country and taking
workers jobs and taxpayer dollars and issuing a massive drive to
destroy the Social Security system for workers, old and young alike,
is being conservative, perhaps being liberal isn't such a bad label
after all."

Send us your thoughts at loudobbs.com. Each of you whose e-mail is
read on this broadcast receives a copy of my book "Exporting America."
And to sign up on our e-mail news letter, sign up on our Web site
loudobbs.com.
___________
Contact your Congressional reps toll free at: 1-877-762-8762
or www.senate.gov and www.house.gov

White House: 1-202-456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov

China has a wall. Maybe it is time we start thinking about it.

China has a wall. Maybe it is time we start thinking about it.

and one more thing.
We should send Mexico a bill for the billions their citizens are costing us.

and one more thing.
We should send Mexico a bill for the billions their citizens are costing us.

Originally Posted by dataman

and one more thing.
We should send Mexico a bill for the billions their citizens are costing us.

First, they need to be rounded up, and escorted back to their own country; because these obnoxious and CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS are here without being invited, and its high time we throw the damn book at them. And probably as I was typing this very small paragraph, another 50 or more 'anchor babies' have arrived! Damn, damn, damn.

Originally Posted by dataman

and one more thing.
We should send Mexico a bill for the billions their citizens are costing us.

First, they need to be rounded up, and escorted back to their own country; because these obnoxious and CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS are here without being invited, and its high time we throw the damn book at them. And probably as I was typing this very small paragraph, another 50 or more 'anchor babies' have arrived! Damn, damn, damn.

Originally Posted by butterbean

And probably as I was typing this very small paragraph, another 50 or more 'anchor babies' have arrived! Damn, damn, damn.

Yeah, getting them rounded up and deported is important, but getting THAT law changed has to be a big priority.

Originally Posted by butterbean

And probably as I was typing this very small paragraph, another 50 or more 'anchor babies' have arrived! Damn, damn, damn.

Yeah, getting them rounded up and deported is important, but getting THAT law changed has to be a big priority.