Lou Dobbs has Tunnel Vision
Sup everyone? Hope that everyone is doing alright. My workload lately has been kinda hellish. Its really not letting me update this as much as I could be. However, its Thursday and I had a brief moment of reprieve with which to address at least one of the issues that makes me just want to lay my head down to stop the madness.
So a lot of you are aware of who Lou Dobbs is and can probably guess in what direction this post is going to be heading, but for those of you that don't here's the 411. Lou Dobbs is a CNN news anchor that is the host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight". He's an incredibly vocal pundit on the subjects of border security, illegal immigration, and the problems facing the American middle class. Unlike most news anchors who tend to shield their opinions in favor of journalistic integrity Lou makes no secret of what his stance is and even extols his beliefs at great length to the viewers of his show. He recently wrote a book entitled War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back. Recently I had taken an interest in his constant chant of "reform, overhaul, restart" but after a while I began to ask questions. And when I ask questions more often than not certain parties are not accustomed to providing the complete truth that I'm seeking.
A lot of parties are calling Lou Dobbs a racist. That his focus on Mexican immigrants is not without a racial slant. As much as I would love to see the fallout for CNN if it proved to be true that they were employing a racist and the utter chaos that it would cause, I'm pretty certain that this claim is far fetched. However, this claim is not without its merits. Lou Dobbs is too focused on Mexico as the source of our immigration problem. Now this would not be wrong since there are a lot of statistics to support claims that Mexico is the number 1 source of illegal immigrants into this country. However, Lou is calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Comprehensive immigration reform is not something that should focus myopically on Mexico alone.
The last time I checked our country had 4 sides. North, south east, and west. Now Dobbs is concentrating on our land border with Mexico to the south. However, he is forgetting the hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants that are arriving from Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, or Jamaica along the rest of our southern border. Perhaps we should also remind Dobbs that the Pacific Ocean is being crossed by hundreds, if not thousands of illegal Chinese and Japanese immigrants into California. Looking north I almost don't have to say anything about Canada, but I will for the sake of thoroughness. Illegal immigrants pour over the Canadian border into New York, Washington, Maine, and Michigan just to name a few. Finally lets not forget the Atlantic Ocean which is illegally jumped by many western Europeans all the time using false travel visas. Look, if we as a country are going to come up with a comprehensive plan to combat illegal immigration we should concentrate on all illegal immigrants and not just the largest percentage of them.
A lot of people also say that illegal immigration is not a violation of the founding principles of this country. They argue that immigrants are doing a lot for this country and should be given amnesty. Personally, if we want to grant amnesty to an immigrant it should be done at a US embassy that resides in their country of origin. Then after they are given amnesty they should be allowed into the country. Plus its not as though combating illegal immigration is a bad thing. In fact if we do combat it and manage to control it then we can quell the amount of illicit drugs and firearms that enter this country. We could also prevent potential terrorists from entering this country and trying to do something akin to September 11th.
Frankly all the problems that our country faces are making my head spin thinking about it. I can't even imagine why we as a people let it get this bad. Its like one unwashed spoon, turned into a spoon and a cup, then a spoon, a cup, and a plate. So on until we had a sink piled to the ceiling with dirty dishes and all kinds of mold. Lou Dobbs maybe right about the problems that we face and that they can be fixed, but lets remember that we need to see the whole problem before we can figure out how to divide it and conquer it.
So a lot of you are aware of who Lou Dobbs is and can probably guess in what direction this post is going to be heading, but for those of you that don't here's the 411. Lou Dobbs is a CNN news anchor that is the host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight". He's an incredibly vocal pundit on the subjects of border security, illegal immigration, and the problems facing the American middle class. Unlike most news anchors who tend to shield their opinions in favor of journalistic integrity Lou makes no secret of what his stance is and even extols his beliefs at great length to the viewers of his show. He recently wrote a book entitled War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back. Recently I had taken an interest in his constant chant of "reform, overhaul, restart" but after a while I began to ask questions. And when I ask questions more often than not certain parties are not accustomed to providing the complete truth that I'm seeking.
A lot of parties are calling Lou Dobbs a racist. That his focus on Mexican immigrants is not without a racial slant. As much as I would love to see the fallout for CNN if it proved to be true that they were employing a racist and the utter chaos that it would cause, I'm pretty certain that this claim is far fetched. However, this claim is not without its merits. Lou Dobbs is too focused on Mexico as the source of our immigration problem. Now this would not be wrong since there are a lot of statistics to support claims that Mexico is the number 1 source of illegal immigrants into this country. However, Lou is calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Comprehensive immigration reform is not something that should focus myopically on Mexico alone.
The last time I checked our country had 4 sides. North, south east, and west. Now Dobbs is concentrating on our land border with Mexico to the south. However, he is forgetting the hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants that are arriving from Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, or Jamaica along the rest of our southern border. Perhaps we should also remind Dobbs that the Pacific Ocean is being crossed by hundreds, if not thousands of illegal Chinese and Japanese immigrants into California. Looking north I almost don't have to say anything about Canada, but I will for the sake of thoroughness. Illegal immigrants pour over the Canadian border into New York, Washington, Maine, and Michigan just to name a few. Finally lets not forget the Atlantic Ocean which is illegally jumped by many western Europeans all the time using false travel visas. Look, if we as a country are going to come up with a comprehensive plan to combat illegal immigration we should concentrate on all illegal immigrants and not just the largest percentage of them.
A lot of people also say that illegal immigration is not a violation of the founding principles of this country. They argue that immigrants are doing a lot for this country and should be given amnesty. Personally, if we want to grant amnesty to an immigrant it should be done at a US embassy that resides in their country of origin. Then after they are given amnesty they should be allowed into the country. Plus its not as though combating illegal immigration is a bad thing. In fact if we do combat it and manage to control it then we can quell the amount of illicit drugs and firearms that enter this country. We could also prevent potential terrorists from entering this country and trying to do something akin to September 11th.
Frankly all the problems that our country faces are making my head spin thinking about it. I can't even imagine why we as a people let it get this bad. Its like one unwashed spoon, turned into a spoon and a cup, then a spoon, a cup, and a plate. So on until we had a sink piled to the ceiling with dirty dishes and all kinds of mold. Lou Dobbs maybe right about the problems that we face and that they can be fixed, but lets remember that we need to see the whole problem before we can figure out how to divide it and conquer it.
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