Newsmax
Friday, January 5, 2007

Lou Dobbs' relentless campaign against illegal immigration is striking a chord with cable television viewers – his nightly show's ratings surged 57 percent in the last quarter of 2006 compared to that period the year before.

"Lou Dobbs Tonight" was CNN's biggest gainer, easily outpacing "Larry King Live," up 12 percent, and "Anderson Cooper 360" at 24 percent. On his show, the lifelong Republican Dobbs assails the Bush administration for doing too little to stem illegal immigration.

He also rails against businesses for outsourcing American jobs to other countries, and advocacy groups for helping illegal aliens in the United States, while praising officials who try to enforce immigration laws.

In an exclusive interview with NewsMax Magazine last July, Dobbs declared: "To permit this continued lack of enforcement and lack of accountability on immigration laws, especially since 9/11, is inexcusable."

And about outsourcing, he told NewsMax: "Any company that kills an American job and places it overseas should be prohibited from doing so, either by regulation or tariffs or both."