Who knew that DOBBS has actually had some contact over his life with people along the Southern border, unlike, say, Pat BUCHANAN or O'LOOFAH or HANNITY or MALKIN? But as a reminder, the second link from the Southern Poverty Law Center focuses on his blind eye to the Minutemen.
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/dobbs.html(bottom, p.1) .... Needless to say, such fervor is not necessarily shared by his peers. Men like Reese Schonfeld, the former CNN executive who hired Dobbs, call his focus, or overfocus, on illegal immigration a "one-trick pony." Likewise, Mike Wallace, who likes Dobbs and his program, told me, "He has a fixed and predictable and occasionally excessive preoccupation with broken borders and immigration." ....
(p. 2) .... Born in 1945 in the Texas Panhandle town of Childress, Louis Earl Dobbs came of age in Rupert, Idaho, raised by a mother who kept the books for a furniture store and a father who worked in the propane business. In 1964 Dobbs left Idaho, where he'd spent most of his youth working the bean and potato fields with Mexican migrants in the summer and playing football in the fall — because that is what you did when you grew up in Idaho in the early '60s — and came east, to Cambridge and Harvard, to Quincy House and "Cliffies," never really to return. Dobbs had never heard of Harvard before his guidance counselor and English teacher had put his application together. He arrived on campus at a time when the great mischief consisted of Animal House-like panty raids and road trips. When he left four years later, the whole place was up for grabs — full of intellectual wrath and student demonstrations over a far-off but emotionally close war that almost everyone knew would never be won. ....
He found work, if not money, at a television-radio outfit in Yuma, Arizona, a border town with border problems. It was here Dobbs reported on César Chávez, as Chávez was working to build the United Farm Workers Union. "He was almost alone in his fight to win better wages and working conditions for farmworkers, and he was being fought by the growers associations, labor contractors who brought in 'green carders' from Mexico to undercut the UFW, and the Teamsters union who tried to create their own farmworkers union… and of course the farmers themselves, and the big agribusinesses," recalls Dobbs. "Nearly all the activists today forget that he was one of the most vocal opponents of illegal immigration because they were, in his eyes, working as scabs... setting up the so-called wet line" – UFW border militias — "to stop the entry of illegals." ....
"'Illegal immigrant'?" Dobbs said, with his wife, Debi, a former sportscaster who is herself of Hispanic origin and who refers to Dobbs as "Husband" — he calls her "Momma" — not far away. (In 2003, Debi was arrested after trying to board a plane at the Newark airport with a gun the Dobbses keep on their farm for protection.) "Do I need to say 'legal immigrant'? Do I need to put a modifier on that? Do I tell someone who's entered the country legally, 'You're a legal immigrant'?" ....
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http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589Broken Record
Lou Dobbs' daily 'Broken Borders' CNN segment has focused on immigration for years.
But there's one issue Dobbs just won't take on.
By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok
.... For more than two years now, Dobbs has served up a populist approach to immigration on nightly segments of his newscast entitled "Broken Borders." He has relentlessly covered the issue, although hardly from a traditional news perspective -- Dobbs favors clamping down on illegal immigration, and his "reporting" never fails to make that clear. He has covered the same issues, and the same anti-immigration leaders, time after time after time. In recent months,
Dobbs has run countless upbeat reports on the "citizen border patrols" that have sprung up around the country since last April's Minuteman Project, a paramilitary effort to seal the Arizona border.
But there's one thing Lou Dobbs won't do. No matter what others report about the movement,
Dobbs has failed to present mounting and persistent
evidence of anti-Hispanic racism in anti-immigration groups and citizen border patrols. ....
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