Breaking News! Lou Dobbs Works with Immigrants!

Because of his nightly immigration rants on CNN, Lou Dobbs has become closely associated with immigration. Greg Siskind has blogged about one irony about Sweet Lou — he works with an awful lot of (presumably lawful) immigrants.  Siskind writes:

“Anyway, a few weeks back I started paying attention to who I was seeing on CNN everyday and started to notice a lot of folks that appeared to be immigrants. And I thought – `How ironic?’ CNN runs the most anti-immigrant news show on television, hosted by Mr. Dobbs. If Mr. Dobbs really kept to his rhetoric, why is he not railing against these immigrant job stealers? Based on his views, shouldn’t CNN insist on hiring only American-born journalists? I feel bad for these journalists. They probably have to be very careful about criticizing Dobbs lest they risk the wrath of the big CNN ratings leader. So I’ve decided to honor 14 CNN reporters who are part of CNN’s American network and have to put up with Mr. Dobbs. There may be more, but here are folks that I’ve confirmed were born in other countries. They need our pity –

Christiane Amanpour – British/Iranian

Guillermo Arduino – Argentina

Matthew Chance – England

Kiran Chetry – Nepal

Michael Holmes – Australia

Lola Martinez – Spain

Octavia Nasr – Lebanon

Paula Newton – Canada

Betty Nguyen – Vietnam

Atika Shubert – Indonesia

Abbi Tatton – England

Ali Velshi – Canada

Zain Verjee – Kenya/India

Michael Ware – Australia Harris

Whitbeck – Guatemala

Rick Sanchez – Cuba”  Sanchez debated Dobbs on immigration a while back.

KJ