Founding CNN anchor Lou Dobbs announced his resignation from the network Nov. 11, despite the fact that his contract didn't expire for two more years. Latino advocacy groups are not only cheering the move but taking credit for it. That's because they campaigned for Dobbs to be removed from the network for misrepresenting immigrants and Hispanics generally.
Dobbs, for example, was forced to apologize after characterizing the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as "an organization that is interested in Mexico's export of drugs and illegal aliens to the United States," NPR reported.
To boot, he blamed Latin American immigrants for a rise in leprosy cases in the States, despite the fact that incidences of leprosy haven't notably risen in the U.S.
"We had hundreds of thousands of people who said 'enough is enough,'" Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, told Yahoo! News. "That he is gone from CNN is a great blessing and a great victory for our community."
The staff of Spanish language publication El Diario/La Prensa pointed out in an editorial that Dobbs certainly isn't the only pundit to viciously target immigrants but named him as a leader in anti-immigrant sentiment. He used "hundreds of prime time hours to create an immigrant bogeyman and to churn out lies," they wrote. READ FULL STORY
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