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Lou Dobbs is a television host on Fox Business Network. He was formerly the host of CNN’s ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’.

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Lou Dobbs
stated on March 2, 2020 in a TV interview:

The United States is “actually screening fewer people (for the coronavirus than other countries) because we don't have appropriate testing."

By Bill McCarthy • March 4, 2020
Lou Dobbs
stated on November 15, 2018 in on Fox Business Network:

"We are watching, you know, millions of illegal immigrants cross our borders, and many of them voting in the past election that's what, just a couple weeks ago."

By John Kruzel • November 16, 2018
Lou Dobbs
stated on August 19, 2014 in comments on Fox News' "America's Newsroom":

Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.

By Derek Tsang • August 21, 2014
Lou Dobbs
stated on July 21, 2014 in a broadcast of "Lou Dobbs Tonight":

Obama’s 2012 policy on younger immigrants "created these children coming across" the border.

By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2014
Lou Dobbs
stated on July 1, 2014 in a segment on 'Lou Dobbs Tonight':

The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration."

By Katie Sanders • July 15, 2014

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