Lou Dobbs Tonight
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Lou has published his latest commentary on how when it comes to
so-called free trade, fast-track is the wrong track.

As Lou said today, “Thirty-one years of consecutive trade
deficits and the loss -- in just the last six years -- of
millions of manufacturing and good-paying middle-class jobs to
outsourcing have been the result of what I consider this
unconstitutional ceding of power to the executive branch in the
form of fast-track authority. Last week, I testified to the
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation and Trade that our failed "free trade" of the
past three decades has been the most expensive policy the U.S.
government has ever pursued.”

Visit http://cnn.com/loudobbstonight to read the
rest of Lou’s thoughts on how fast-track authority is the
fast-track to bad policy, as well as more information on
tonight’s show.

And on the show tonight, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Syrian
President Bashar Assad today for talks criticized by the White
House as undermining American efforts to isolate the hard-line
Arab country. Is Speaker Pelosi’s trip justified? What does she
hope to accomplish? We’ll have an in-depth report tonight.

A Tennessee State Senator is fighting to stop the Security and
Prosperity Partnership. State Senator Bill Ketron is asking
the Tennessee General Assembly to turn up the heat on Congress
to stop economic integration between the United States, Mexico
and Canada. Ketron. The Senator sponsored a resolution arguing
the SPP, if allowed to continue, is "a direct threat to the
Constitution and national independence of the United States."
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states are passing resolutions
opposing the so-called North American Union. But will President
Bush listen?

Yet another U.S. business has been busted for hiring illegal
aliens. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 62
managers and employees at a Cargill pork plant in Beardstown,
Illinois. Forty-nine of the 62 were arrested on immigration
charges. This past December, ICE raids conducted at meat
packing plants across the country resulted in the arrests of
hundreds of illegal aliens. We’ll have the latest on the raids.


And naturalized American citizen and electrical engineer Chi
Mak is on trial in Santa Ana, California, charged with
conspiring to smuggle American Navy secrets to China. The
government says he stole classified submarine quiet-propulsion
technology, part of an espionage ring involving his whole
family. Chi Mak was granted secret level clearance in 1996 and
worked on more than 200 U.S. defense and military contracts as
an electrical engineer. We’ll report from Santa Ana.