Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, April 5, 2007

Tonight, 15 British hostages return home after nearly two weeks
in captivity in Iran. The Pentagon today asserted this
situation would never happen to our troops. We’ll have the
latest on the growing hostility between our allies and Iran.

More on the War Within: Nearly 50 percent of our nation's
college students abuse alcohol and drugs. Now, states are
introducing new legislation to put an end to that abuse.
Lawmakers in Massachusetts, New York and Florida are
introducing bills to fight this dangerous and deadly trend.
We'll have that special report tonight.

The Bush administration wants the state of California to stop
giving illegal aliens free birth control. California health
officials say that would only cost the federal government and
the state of California hundreds of millions of dollars a year
to care for babies born to illegal aliens and to perform
background checks on who is getting free birth control. We’ll
bring you a full report this evening.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reached its quota for
2008 H-1B visa applicants in just one day. More than 150,000
high-skilled foreign workers applied for U.S. technology jobs
on Tuesday. Many U.S. businesses, desperate to hire foreign
high skilled workers over Americans in an attempt to save
money, are pushing the U.S. government to relax their H-1B visa
limits. But what about the out-of-work Americans looking for
those jobs?

And we continue our coverage of the most important espionage
case in a generation. American engineer Chi Mak is on trial for
allegedly passing vital U.S. military secrets to the communist
Chinese government. We'll bring you the latest details.