brit am said:From CNN's Lou Dobbs, one of the only people in the media confronting
the
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Military
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15 April 2005
ANNOUNCER: This is LOU DOBBS, for news, debate and opinion, tonight.
DOBBS: Good evening. Stock prices today plunged on Wall Street. The
Dow
Quoted message said:Jones industrials fell almost 200 points. That the worst single day
decline
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The Dow over the past three days has fallen more than 400 points. A
new
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and a
Quoted message said:half. All of the major markets suffered huge losses on the week.
Turning now to our nation's immigration crisis. Tonight, the Homeland
Quoted message said:Security Department says dozens of illegal aliens had access to one
of our
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department says
Quoted message said:86 illegal aliens worked for a California contractor, a contractor
that
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Twenty of those illegal aliens have been arrested. But the government
says
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Bill Tucker reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Eighty-six illegal
aliens found
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more
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the
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were able to only find and
arrest
Quoted message said:20, two of whom have been deported before. One after being convicted
of drug
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home
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MICHAEL UNZUETA, ICE SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE: We're going into these
employers and these businesses and checking their employee records.
In San
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companies. We've looked at about 13,000 employment records, and of
that,
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TUCKER: Naval Coating had no comment. But ICE showed off the false
documents
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cards.
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This latest group of arrests follows the arrest of illegal aliens
working on
Quoted message said:a nuclear reactor in Florida. Twenty-seven illegals working at
Piedmont
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International
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company
Quoted message said:servicing vendor machines in the state prison at Chino, California.
JAMES CARAFANO, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: The most dangerous terrorist
attacks
Quoted message said:are what's called insider attacks. It's people who -- you know, most
security systems are designed to keep people out who have bad intent
from
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get in,
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TUCKER: It may seem obvious, even alarmingly simple. But more
alarming is
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acceptable,
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legal
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(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: Equally disturbing are the penalties involved. Unless a
pattern of
Quoted message said:willful hiring of illegals can be proved, there are no criminal
penalties. A
Quoted message said:first offense is a civil penalty, and you can be fined, Lou, not less
than
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DOBBS: Well, aside from the idiocy concerning all those penalties,
the fact
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this
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TUCKER: Well, the security requirements actually are on the
contractor. The
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let in,
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requirement of the contractor.DOBBS: That's a U.S. naval base -- forgive me.
TUCKER: Yes, it is.
DOBBS: It's on the U.S. Navy to make certain that doesn't occur.
Thank you,
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Well, as we is reported here extensively, the millions of illegal
aliens in
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including, of course, education. Tonight, Florida is the latest state
to
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state
Quoted message said:colleges for largely discounted in-state tuition rates. Critics say
the bill
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Meantime, Bush ducks and crawls along with Congress.
Tom