Please email Lou Dobbs. He keeps insisting that Jeff

[OregonBlue]

Sessions brought the "guest worker" program to light. In fact it was Byron Dorgan who introduced the amendment to eliminate the 325,000 ADDITIONAL guest workers (those who are not already in the country) from the proposed immigration bill. His amendment was voted down by 46 REPUBLICANS and 22 DEMOCRATS with 28 Democrats and 4 Republicans voting for it but, Lou just goes on and on about how Sessions is the only one concerned about these additional guest workers.

I sent him an email pointing out his mistake along with this item from Bloomberg news:

The Senate voted 69-28 to set aside North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan's proposal to eliminate a provision creating up to 325,000 visas each year for unskilled workers from other countries. ``The guest-worker provision is about importing cheap labor,'' Dorgan said before the vote.

LOU HAS HAD SESSIONS ON AND KEEPS QUOTING HIM. Please correct him and ask him why he hasn't had Dorgon on. I think the country needs to know that all of these issues are not Repub or Dem. All but 4 of the votes to retain Dorgan's amendment were Democratic votes so how is it the Lou is not portraying eliminating the "guest worker" program as a Dem plan. People are for and against based on experience, not political party.

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?9

[joemurphy]

1. Lou loves Sessions and Cornyn. It figures.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. cornyn is almost as evil as cheney

[OregonBlue]

3. Drop him a line and ask him why he hasn't had the originator of

the amendment to eliminate the addition "guest workers" on? Why only Sessions who had nothing to do with putting the amendment together and only climbed on the band wagon after Dorgan!!

[bluedog]

4. heres the transcript.......Sessions called attention to it.......

RECTOR: They are getting a great benefit by citizenship in the United States, they're not going home.

DOBBS: And very quickly, the White House response suggests that you've counted some new immigrants twice, first as guest workers then as green cardholders.

RECTOR: The act is very clear that the guest worker program they get green cards and legal permanent residence without any reflection to the other caps and the builders. No mention of that. They're creating a fictitious cap in order to artificially reduce the number of the apparent number of people coming in because they are embarrassed.

DOBBS: Right. Bottom line, what is your best estimate right now as to the explosion in legal immigration under this so-called reform legislation in the Senate?

RECTOR: Even after the amendments, which pull the number down considerably, we're still talking about 66 million legal immigrants coming into the United States over the next 20 years. At the end of 20 years, close to one-quarter of the population in the United States will be foreign-born. That's a rate of immigration far beyond anything ever in our history.

DOBBS: Do you find it amazing that this Senate does not know how many illegal aliens are in this country? The estimates range from usually 11 million to 12 million to 20 million. But no one really knows. And that there are no numerical caps put on any part of that amnesty provision, none whatsoever?

And, secondly, that there is no national dialogue, no national vision of what this country should look like over the course of the next 25 years, the types and the education and the nations of origin for the people we will be bringing to this nation of immigrants.

RECTOR: Absolutely. It's even worse than that. Senator Sessions initially called attention to this issue because the Senate itself has no idea of how much it's increasing legal immigration, has no notion of these numbers. This was really a stealth open border bill. They wanted to sneak this through without anyone knowing.

DOBBS: Well, a few of us did notice. And Robert Rector, we thank you for paying close attention. We hope you come back soon, as we explore an issue that is certainly far from resolution irrespective of whether or not the Senate marches ahead with its rather arbitrary, even capricious deadline of Memorial Day to come to some sort of legislative conclusion. We thank you very much, Robert Rector.

RECTOR: Thank you.

DOBBS: Coming up next -- and I should point out, as Robert Rector said, Senator Jeff Sessions first brought attention to this issue, and today again Senator Sessions saying that his colleagues in the U.S. Senate should be ashamed.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/19/ldt.01.html

[Disturbed]

5. Dorgan has held quite a few meetings about...

InSourcing,OutSourcing and Mfg. Relocation. He is real Pro-American Citizen workers. He believes that the American Corps are crushing the Middle Class and the Working Poor of America.

[OregonBlue]

7. Ever seen him on LD? I can't remember seeing on but then that

wouldn't fit with Lou's agenda.

[joemurphy]

6. Sorry, but I don't write Lou Dobbs. He's a jerk. Screw him.

[OregonBlue]

8. He is a jerk but lots of people watch him and think he's honest.

I'd just like him to get some pressure to BE honest.

[joemurphy]

9. OK, fair enough. I'll write him as a favor to you -- a fellow Dem.

Although I know that writing that fat asshole isn't going to make him any better or get him to change anything.

[OregonBlue]

13. Thanks! He's an ass but, on occasion he actually says something

intelligent.

[joemurphy]

11. Done. Putting your hopes in fairness from Dobbs is vain.

All Dobbs cares about is himself and his ratings.

[OregonBlue]

12. Thank you, it's probably a waste of time but, I'd really like to see

Dorgan on his show!!

[Metta]

10. Done. Seems as if he wants his own facts.

That's where we come in. ;)

[OregonBlue]

14. Yah, probably will continue to ignore the facts since it fits with his

agenda but, maybe he will get Dorgan on his show. What a refreshing change that would be!