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Dobbs Rips Dems, GOP on Immigration
Enraged by the revelation that officials of the the federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency (ICE) are alerting Mexican officials to the whereabouts of Minutemen monitoring the border, Lou Dobbs let loose Tuesday night with his strongest attack yet on President Bush and Congress over the immigration debacle. Speaking on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on CNN, he said the news was just more evidence of the absurdity of the policies that the Bush administration and Congress are following on the issues of border security and illegal immigration. Noting that the president "continues to push his guest worker program and amnesty for anywhere between 11 and 20 million illegal aliens," Dobbs said Bush "still insists nothing less than what he calls comprehensive immigration reform is acceptable, and the lies keep coming from both political parties. "This president is not enforcing the immigration laws enacted by Congress, and this Congress is failing its duty of oversight to demand that those laws be followed," he charged, adding that "Only a fool, Mr. President, Senator [Ted] Kennedy, Senator [John] McCain, would believe you when you speak of new legislation, when you don't enforce the laws now." Dobbs asked the three in absentia: "Would you do so if the law was more to your liking? Would you secure our borders and ports? Would you halt illegal immigration?"
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Terming his queries "rhetorical questions," Dobbs said that "the answers are obvious -- obvious because of your conduct. As many as 3 million illegal aliens continue to cross our border with Mexico each year. Enforcement against illegal employers of illegal aliens in this country is all but nonexistent, Mr. President. How do you explain that and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have all but ended their investigations and inspections of employers who hire illegal aliens?" Dobbs laid out what he called the official record of the president's failure to act: 318 employers out of 5.5 million employers in this country have been fined for hiring illegal aliens since 2001. In 2004, only three employers were fined." That, said Dobbs, "is a dismal record, Mr. President, as dismal as the fact that the number of ICE agents assigned to enforce immigration laws in the workplace have declined from only 240 back in 1999 to now less than 100." Said Dobbs: "The problem in our lack of border security and illegal immigration has become increasingly obvious; two political parties who are beholden to corporate America, the largest employers of illegal aliens and the leadership of both parties who are selling out American citizens in search of cheap labor and political advantage. "How dumb do you all think we are?" he asked.
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