Investigation Discovers Lou Dobbs Hired At Least Five Undocumented Immigrants To Work At His Estates

[babylonsister]

What do you know; another hypocrite.


Discovers Lou Dobbs Hired At Least Five Undocumented Immigrants To Work At His Estates

dobbs3 Author, radio host, and TV personality Lou Dobbs — who ended his long career at CNN this past November with an $8 million severance pay package — made his name in public life by railing against undocumented immigrants. Dobbs has always reserved special derision for illegal employers, who he says are “acting against the national interests, acting against the law in every respect.”

Now, a new investigation by journalist Isabel Macdonald for The Nation Magazine has found that the notorious pundit “has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estates and the horses he keeps for his 22-year-old daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper.” Macdonald interviewed five immigrants who were undocumented at the time they were employed by Dobbs to do work at his “sprawling white mansion on his 300-acre estate in Sussex, New Jersey” and ” spacious multimillion-dollar winter holiday home in Eagle Isle, the most exclusive enclave of the Ibis Golf and Country Club, a gated community in West Palm Beach, Florida.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/07/dobbs-immigrants-horse-farm/

[eleny]

1. kr!

[gratuitous]

2. Oh no! Say it ain't so, Lou!

These are precisely the people we listen to in the popular media. They have estates, their children are equestrians, and they haven't the foggiest fuck of a notion what 95% of the country faces every day. But they dictate the terms of the discussion to the rest of us, and we spend an incredible amount of time on things like the estate tax and taxes on capital gains.

[IndianaJoe]

6. Lou will tell you he used to work the fields with Hispanics.

Maybe so, but he's certainly farting on silk now. And his Hispanic hirees are doing the wash.

[L0oniX]

3. Yep. Rich people hire the cheapest labor they can find.

Oh yea the rich give us jobs don't they.

[ecstatic]

4. typical. Everything about him is hypocritical nt

[Oceansaway]

5. K&R...n/t