June 9, 2008

The terrible truth – New feature on the Dustin Inman Society Website: Facts and quotes from CNN that you may have missed: From Friday, June 6

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The U.S. unemployment rate jumped in May to 5.5 percent. That is the largest monthly increase since 1986 -49,000 jobs were lost in May. Retailing lost 27,000 jobs

Illegal labor: Vinyard worker dies, apparently from heat exposure and dehydration suffered in the sweltering grape fields of central California. Two Buck Chuck not so “cheap”. An attorney for Merced Farm Labor says all of the company’s workers fill out I-9 forms attesting to the fact that they are legally authorized to work. But the attorney could not say what documentation Vasquez Jimenez provided to the company.
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Mexicans Without Borders invites Jorge Bustamante, a United Nations human rights investigator, to Prince William County, Virginia to observe that county’s new efforts to crackdown on illegal immigration.But as Louise Schiavone reports, his point of view on the issue is already very, very clear.

The same United Nations investigator who reported this spring that quote, “xenophobia and racism towards migrants in the United States has worsened since 9/11” visits Prince William County, Virginia next week. The U.N.’s Bustamante is Mexico-born, a U.S. citizen and college professor and a long-time critic of U.S. efforts to contain illegal immigration.

MARK KRIKORIAN, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: This is the last person in the world — a supposedly objective foreign body would be sending anyway. He’s a life long crusader for open borders. I mean, he’s the father of Mexico’s dual citizenship law.

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A federal judge has sided with big business and blocked part of Oklahoma’s new law to deal with its illegal immigration crisis. Oklahoma state representative, Randy Terrill, sponsored that legislation and said, “What you have an example of the judiciary thwarting the will of the citizens of Oklahoma.”

Judge Robin Cauthron, who issued this opinion, is perhaps the most liberal judge in the Western district of Oklahoma said Terrill.

The Chamber of Commerce in Oklahoma, the National Chamber of Commerce, are the plaintiffs in this case. It’s big business saying they don’t want to be responsible for verify citizenship status of employees, said Lou Dobbs of CNN.

The Oklahoma legislation, HR 1804, passed the House and Senate by overwhelming, bipartisan, veto-proof margins and was signed by a Democrat governor.
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The “Washington Post” fact checker recently gave Senator Barack Obama four Pinocchio’s, the worst rating possible, for making what the “Washington Post” termed “widely inaccurate statements” about Lou Dobbs for his reporting on illegal immigration.
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The United States, according to a new report, ( MORE ON THE REPORT HERE) is in danger of losing its national identity. The study warns that identity politics and the influence of socio-ethnocentric special interest groups are simply overcoming our common identity as Americans. The report is titled, “E Pluribus Unum,” for many, one. It warns that we’re in danger of becoming the opposite, from one, many. It is the work of the Bradley project, a non-profit group based in Wisconsin, dedicated to what it calls America’s national identity. Its survey of 2,400 Americans contains some troubling findings: To nurture and develop our sense of ourselves as Americans the report makes a series of recommendations, because, as the study’s author makes clear, many Americans are historically illiterate, points in one example to a question to survey of fifth graders.

JAMES REES, EXEC DIR MOUNT VERNON: Only seven of 100 could explain why the date of July 4, 1776 is significant and why.

——————–Source for all info and quotes above: CNN – Lou Dobbs Tonight, June 6, 2008——————–
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