Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Join Lou for an hour of news, debate and opinion. President
Bush in Mexico talking immigration reform with Mexican
President Felipe Calderon. What will this mean for U.S.
immigration policy?

Senior Bush administration officials began a series of
discussions with Wall Street Executives yesterday to talk about
overhauling the financial regulatory system. Heavy weights both
in and out of government are collaborating to find ways to make
regulatory changes coming months to streamline the flow of
business. Buffett, Greenspan, Paulson, the chairman of the
S.E.C. and the largest business lobby in the country, the
Chamber of commerce, are trying to decide what new laws should
look like. They want to ease the burden of compliance with
Sarbanes Oxley, regulations that were put into effect after the
Enron and WorldCom to detect fraud. Who is watching the
watchdogs now? We’ll have a special report.

It’s day two in the landmark trial on Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s
laws cracking down on illegal aliens. The ACLU is fighting
Hazleton’s ordinances prohibiting employers from hiring illegal
aliens and barring landlords from renting to them. This is the
first legal challenge to local ordinances dealing with illegal
immigration to go to court. And while the court’s final ruling
will apply only to Hazleton, many see it as a landmark case.
There are somewhere between 70 to 80 communities that have
passed similar ordinances who will be watching this trial
closely. Join us tonight for a special report from Scranton,
Pennsylvania.

And as the U.S. makes progress towards a North American Union,
at least a dozen state legislatures have written resolutions or
introduced bills to halt any further negotiation of the SPP.
But is the Security and Prosperity Partnership on track to
integrate the economies of the US, Mexico and Canada by 2010?
We’ll have a special report.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services say it’s time to
raise the citizenship application fee to close a budget crunch
and update antiquated computers. While more and more people are
applying for U.S. immigration benefits, Congress does not fund
the agency with tax money. USCIS says it's already overwhelmed
with its current workload and could face a massive increase in
applications if Congress passes legislation granting amnesty to
the millions of illegal aliens in the United States. We’ll have
a full report.

Plus, three of the country's top radio talk show hosts join us:
Mark Simone of WABC in New York, Steve Cochran of WGN in
Chicago and Charles Goyette of KFNX in Phoenix.