Videos from Lou Dobbs this week

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video: Mexican Congressional Delegation Lobbying Congress for Open Border, Guest Worker Program and Amnesty

Members of the Mexican Congress are visiting Washington and Chicago this week to push for a U.S. guest worker and amnesty program. And they're using the 8-year-old son of Elvira Arellano, an illegal alien who has taken sanctuary in a Chicago church, to help make their point and their case. The group includes a representative from an agency called the Center Without Borders and a young son of an illegal alien who has been avoiding deportation by living in a Chicago church. Mexico wants Central Americans to back them, forcing the issue in the U.S. Congress. The lobbying blitz comes as President Bush prepares to visit with Mexican president Felipe Calderon next month. Arizona's governor, Janet Napolitano, is also meeting with Calderon in March. But Mexico's heavy involvement in the U.S. immigration debate is triggering an outcry. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, said: "This is a direct interference in American domestic policymaking. And it's part of a long pattern of Mexico's violation of our sovereignty in the area of immigration." Critics say Mexico's answer to poverty is to send workers to the United States instead of dealing with the problem head on. Rep. Tom Tancred (R-CO) said: "It's a futile effort if they're here thinking that they're going to solve their own problems by getting us to do something, by keeping that border open."

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video: Los Angeles Law Enforcement to Target City's Worst Gangs, Many Criminal Illegal Aliens - Mayor in Denial

New efforts under way to stop the increase in violent crime by street gangs. Law enforcement officials meeting in Los Angeles, where they're set to announce plans to target that city's worst gangs, many of whose members who are criminal illegal aliens. No one knows how many illegal aliens are among the nation's estimated 750,000 gang members. San Diego police say up to 40 percent of their gang members are illegal aliens. In Los Angeles, they make up at least 60 percent of the notorious 18th Street Gang. Law enforcement officials from throughout North and Central America are holding a gang summit in Los Angeles. A key focus, the impact of open borders on the spread of gang violence. The FBI says Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is the world's most dangerous gang. It was formed by Central American illegal aliens in Los Angeles to counter the power of Mexican-dominated gangs. Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton said: "The issue of gangs and their ability to go across borders, particularly Latin American, Latino gangs... it is critical that we not give them sanctuary in any of the countries that are inflicted by their violence." While overall crime in Los Angeles is down sharply, gang violence jumped 14 percent last year. City officials are trying to crack down. Mayor Villaraigosa disputed the notion that many gang members are illegal aliens. And Los Angeles continues to prohibit city police from asking criminal suspects about their immigration status.

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video: DHS in Disarray - Rampant Incompetence and Mismanagement

On Capitol Hill there are harsh accusations about the state of the Department of Homeland Security -- mismanagement, poor leadership, a host of loopholes leaving this country and its citizens at risk. The government's own watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, calls the DHS transformation from 22 agencies into one department high risk. "Failure to effectively address its challenges could have serious consequences for our homeland security." GAO director David Walker chronicled a long list of challenges to overcome -- cargo and passenger screen, visitor tracking, employment of illegal aliens, outdated Coast Guard assets. To say nothing of poor marks for leadership and accountability at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And according to the GAO, the department can't pass a routine financial audit. Essentially unable to account for the taxpayer money its been given to spend. A spokesman for DHS called the report a rehash of four years of GAO criticism of the department. "We are moving at an astronomical rate here to bring together 22 agencies, while at the same time, protecting the nation." But security experts say DHS must move faster and better.

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Los Angeles Times: Foes of Illegal Migrants Shame Employers Via Web

Activists fighting illegal immigration are using a time-proven method — public shame — to target employers who may hire undocumented workers, angering some business owners and federal authorities. Instead of just protesting at day labor sites, activists around the country are posting on a website photos of people hiring the workers and the names of their companies, if that can be determined. The website, www.wehirealiens.com, which reports 1 million hits a month, lists 2,920 employers in 47 states, including nearly 700 in California. Founder Jason Mrochek, a 32-year-old Riverside County software developer, said the website was developed in 2005 because he and other activists were frustrated by the lack of action by the federal government in stemming illegal immigration. Mrochek's idea is to bring unwanted attention to those who hire illegal immigrants. For instance, he and others spent a recent Saturday in Capistrano Beach, snapping photos of anyone who tried to hire dayworkers congregating on Doheny Park Road. Robin Hvidston, an Upland-based activist, said many employers looking for day laborers leave the worker sites when told they will be photographed. The website "is one of our most effective tools in terms of targeting employers," she said. "No employer wants to see his company's name accusing him publicly before the world of breaking the law. It's very effective from that standpoint."

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video: Rohrabacher Vows Impeachment Proceedings if Border Agents are Murdered in Jail

There is damaging new information showing that the Department of Homeland Security lied to Congress, providing information contradicting the Bush administration's version of events and the stated reason for prosecuting two Border Patrol agents. Congressional Republicans are again demanding that President Bush intervene on behalf of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, now serving 11 and 12 years in prison for shooting and wounding a Mexican illegal alien drug smuggler. As we've reported, Ramos was beaten severely in prison over the weekend by men yelling insults in Spanish. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)warned: "If these men, after -- especially after this assault are murdered in prison, if one of them lose their lives, there's going to be some kind of impeachment talk in Capitol Hill." Lawmakers released a long-awaited report on the case from the Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General. It fails to answer several key questions, including, why did the Justice Department prosecute the agents before the report was complete? And why did homeland security investigators tell several members of Congress they had evidence the agents were out to shoot Mexicans when Inspector General Richard Skinner admitted to lawmakers this week that was not true?