LOU DOBBS VIDEO - It's the North American Union, Stupid... etc.

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video: ACLU Charges that Hazleton Ordinance May Be in Violation of NAFTA

The mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, today went before a federal judge to defend his town's crackdown on the devastating effects of illegal immigration. Hazleton is being sued by the ACLU and half a dozen other illegal alien and open borders groups over a law that makes it a crime to hire or rent to illegal aliens. The ACLU today, in fact, argued it's up to the federal government and not local authorities to enforce immigration laws. The plaintiffs led by the ACLU and open border advocates had one argument: Hazleton didn't study or document the need for its ordinances. Something supporters of the city rejected as unnecessary. Kris Kobach, an attorney for Hazleton, said: "There is no rule under the Constitution or under federal law that a city council commission an independent scientific study every time they act. The constitutional obligation is simply that cities act reasonably, and that's what precisely what the city has done." The North American Free Trade Agreement also became an issue. The attorney from the ACLU asked the mayor if he had consulted with the presidents of Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States to be sure his ordinances didn't interfere with any immigration obligations under our free trade agreements. The mayor laughed in response.

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video: China on the Verge of Crushing U.S. Economy

China sells us cheap goods and lends us the money to buy them. Some say a financial disaster is inevitable. William Hawkins of the U.S. Business & Industry Council said: "You cannot sustain these kinds of financial imbalances over time. Something has got to give. It usually means a lot of dislocation, depression, financial losses, collapse of markets, collapse of currency values in the country that's been running the deficit, which is us." The U.S. Federal Reserve backs that scenario up. A study in 2000 found when a country imports more than it exports, if its current account deficit hits 5 percent of GDP, income growth will slow, and its currency will drop 10 to 20 percent. Right now the U.S. current account deficit is not 5 percent of GDP. It's 6.5 percent. Now the U.S. stock market is suddenly showing signs of being sensitive to China. Last month, when the communist government decided to manipulate their own stock markets, the Shanghai Index fell more than 8 percent, and jitters sent markets around the world sharply lower.

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video: Federal Officials Fail to Prosecute Many Drug Smugglers, Forcing Locals to Deal with the Problem

Federal prosecutors are allowing drug smugglers to walk free, after bringing hundreds of pounds of marijuana into this country. Now local authorities are being forced to deal with an emerging crisis that federal prosecutors are refusing to address and in fact are creating. Two local prosecutors in Arizona say federal attorneys refused to prosecute smugglers moving less than 500 pounds of marijuana. They say it's an unwritten rule. George Silva is the prosecutor in Nogales, Arizona. He says he doesn't have the money to prosecute the criminals ignored by the federal government. "It's disgraceful that that happens in this day and age. We have a war on drugs, and we're not really serious about the war on drugs."