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Lou Dobbs hired illegals and knew they were undocumented says report

Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 06:21 PM
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The hypocrisy of Lou Dobbs on the immigration issue has finally been exposed .

It now turns out according to a ‘Nation’ magazine report that Dobbs hired illegal immigrants to work on his horse farm in New Jersey, all the time castigating employers in America who did the same.

Dobbs,remember, was the man who lit the torch against illegal immigrants here in America. Night after night his CNN show slammed them and abused anyone who made a case for them to be legalized.

It was the beginning of a nasty nativist era in American politics that continues to this day where immigrant are demonized and some have been killed by thugs weaned on the nasty rhetoric of Dobbs and others.

Now it turns out that Dobbs was having it both ways, slamming the hiring of illegal immigrants while benefiting from their cheap labor to keep his house and manage his fancy stables.

And the upshot of ‘The Nation’ article is that Dobbs clearly knew that the workers were undocumented

Macdonald spoke to a man named Rodrigo Ortega. Ortega told her about meeting Dobbs. Ortega told her that Dobbs "knew very well that the majority of us didn't have papers," but that this "was never a problem."

it is hardly surprising that Dobbs never paid overtime to the illegal workers who often worked very long hours.

After all Lou Dobbs always thought he could have it both ways.
Now that facade has come tumbling down thanks to some outstanding reporting.

The title of the article says it all: “Lou Dobbs American Hypocrite.”



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maloney | Oct 08, 2010, 11:48 AM EDT
Patrick Roberts... another liberal Irish American liar.

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plasticpaddy | Oct 08, 2010, 11:46 AM EDT
Actually the Us doesn't have an official language so English is not the language of the country. If anything would it not be something Native American. For such a multicultural country such statements are astounding.Also Karen Murphy, well said, they seek to hat people only trying to better their lives, just like the ancestors of those on here making hateful statements.

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IrishTierney | Oct 08, 2010, 11:19 AM EDT
I agree with all the posts here. CLoghry1938 hit the nail right on the head. Learn our English language instead of thumbing your nose at it. We make it too easy for them not to have to learn our language, and it's sickening. Plus, come here LEGALLY. Our borders are a porous sieve. We should make so that only the children born here whose parents are LEGAL citizens, then become U.S. citizens. No more pregnant women racing over here to give birth, and thus, making their child a citizen (a.k.a.) anchor baby. No more illegal woman over here popping out multiple babies (because they don't believe in contraception), and making them all citizens. Crazy broken, and needs to be fixed!

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KarenMurphy | Oct 08, 2010, 11:13 AM EDT
Please stop using the term "illegals". It only dehumanizes undocumented workers and speaks volumes about the people who use it to describe others.

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judiron | Oct 08, 2010, 10:36 AM EDT
Thought he was a politician, Don't watch CNN, to liberal and biased

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CLoghry1938 | Oct 08, 2010, 10:18 AM EDT
I know that this kind hypocrasy exists also with our politicians,judges, etc. I also believe thate that only those who come here legally should be allowed to stay. Also English is the language of this country and there is no reason to print everything in both english and spanish.If they want to come here do it legally and learn the language.

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Fran Connor | Oct 08, 2010, 10:05 AM EDT
Patrick, will you issue an apology to Mr. Dobbs when the truth comes out? Stop drinking so much kool-aide.

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borefield | Oct 08, 2010, 10:03 AM EDT
Patrick, this is so below all forms of truth. Research your story and print FACTS, check out your sources and show me the proof. These are desperate times indeed for Liberals. I see it more and more every day. I love it.

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MaryM232 | Oct 08, 2010, 09:25 AM EDT
No, Lou Dobbs did NOT hire illegal aliens. Are you morons so desperate that you have to slander this man, with lies? Lou Dobbs doesn't have a horse farm. His daughter (who is in her twenties) is a show jumping champion. Her horses are stabled at a private stable, owned by a third party. If there had been any illegal aliens employed, they were employed by the stable owners, and Mr. Dobbs stated yesterday that he had nothing to do with it. He doesn't go to the stables, and would have had no way of knowing this. I listened to Isabel MacDonald, the writer for the Marxist magazine, The Nation crumble when she had to answer questions, and she admitted that Dobbs in no way broke the law or personally hired illegals. It turns out that the landscapers she was referring to, were hired by a contractor, not Dobbs. And this was a contractor who was hired to maintain the landscaping on Dobbs' family's vacation home in Florida. It was also revealed that Ms. MacDonald had also been found to have been lying, because initially she was trying to claim that Dobbs had been trying to get visas for illegals, but was told if she printed that lie, she'd open the magazine and herself up to a lawsuit. The Nation is a propagandist publication, owned by a billionaire communist, who gives nothing to charity, doesn't care about the poor and actually seeks to profit from the exploitation of things she pretends to be against.

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Gaelicpiper | Oct 08, 2010, 09:09 AM EDT
This is so typical. The horse industry and, a majority of the horse want-to-be people, hire criminal aliens purely for the cost benefit. The good paying jobs, that once existed for citizens and legal immigrants, have all gone. Where have all the great Irish horse people gone?-- Looking for a living wage and benefits. It is so odd that the horse people would put million dollare horses in the hands of criminals. These horse people put their horses in the hands of some one who is probably using a false name and hiding a criminal record. Go figure?

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GeorgeDillon | Oct 08, 2010, 03:19 AM EDT
Mad Mass Immigrationist Roberts does not have the courtesy to seek Dobbs' response to these allegations. Anyone who wants common sense on immigration is the victim of a witchunt from fascists like Roberts.

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IrishAndProud | Oct 08, 2010, 03:17 AM EDT
If you're going to try to make the argument that something is suddenly 'okay' because someone was being a hypocrite about it, then you might as well toss out all laws and statutes everywhere, because over the course of human history most of them have been violated by people who claim to support them. Yeah...that makes sense (so spaketh Patrick Roberts at Irish Central).

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IrishAndProud | Oct 08, 2010, 03:10 AM EDT
(correction: that's 'majority of the USA doesn't want them here, either)

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IrishAndProud | Oct 08, 2010, 03:09 AM EDT
Well, I speak out against the presence of illegals, and I've NEVER hired them. So, I guess that cancels out Dobbs' transgressions. Besides, whether he did or didn't actually do this, what does it change about the fact that illegals shouldn't be here -- and the fact that the majority of the USA doesn't, either? All this has done is point out one man's hypocrisy (assuming it's the case); it doesn't negate MILLIONS of people entering illegally. So then, what exactly IS your point with this article, Robert, since you are pro-illegal, anyway? Do you think this really 'changes' anything?

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