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Casey Wian (CNN): Yeah, there's a lot of confusing things about this statement, Lou. And first of all, it sounds like he's reading from a script written by some of these organizations that were in our report, the ACLU, MALDEF,
La
Raza. I mean, he's talking about fear mongering.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- March 11
Obama: When I hear Rush Limbaugh or you know Lou Dobbs or
some of these people talking about how we need to send them all
back. We're not going to send them all back. First of all, this
is a country of immigrants. Second of all, as a practical matter,
we would end up having to use all of our law enforcement resources
to round people up, detain them, separate families. It's not
a realistic solution. We're not going to be able to solve the
problem if we're just shouting about it like Lou Dobbs and folks
on television.
Dobbs: Well Senator Obama, a couple of things. One
is you say you can't possibly deport folks. Well let's look at
the record because in the 1970s, more than 10 million illegal
aliens were actually deported during that period of time*, so
it's -- it is within our capacity ...
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*Not true. During the 1950s Eisenhower deported more than one million. There were few deporations in the 1970s. |
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