Anti-immigrant Play of the Week: Lou Dobbs Confuses Himself on E-Verify

This week’s Anti-immigrant Play of the Week goes to conservative pundit Lou Dobbs host of a nightly news show on CNN, for contradicting himself on the voluntary employment verification system, commonly known as Basic Pilot or E-Verify.

According to Truth in Immigration, despite mounting evidence showing the system containing major flaws, and despite contrary assessments from his own show and other news programs on CNN, Dobbs claimed that “E-verify works”. Interestingly enough, Dobbs opposed E-Verify when it was part of the comprehensive immigration compromise, but seems to now endorse it when it is part of a deportation-only bill.




Lou Dobbs was recently featured in a report by Media Matters and articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times for his promotion of fear, anger and resentment towards immigrants. It seems to the anti-immigrant crowd facts mean very little, so long as their political agenda is met.

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Anti-Immigrant Play of the Week

This week's Anti-immigrant Play of the Week goes to Colorado State Representative Doug Bruce.

When I heard the news that Colorado State Representative Bruce said that “we don’t need anymore illiterate peasants”, I thought about both of my Great Grandmothers and Great Grandfathers arriving from Europe.

When they landed at Ellis Island in the early 1900s, they had nothing. They couldn’t speak, write or read English and they didn’t have any formal education. They were peasants in their homeland, but came to this country for a better life. They worked helping to build this nation with their sweat and toil. They even went on to raise several children who served in our nation’s military, civilian corps to build railroads and highways and worked in factories building aircraft used in World War II.

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