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PMEX and oil in exchange for mass immigration

By Randi Rhodes on Lou Dobbs Tonight, Lou Dobbs Tonight

June 6, 2006

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/06/ldt.01.html

DOBBS: Randi?

RANDI RHODES, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: The strategy on the Democrats' part was to make something that there was no way that the House would not go for. So the Democrats in the Senate looked at the House bill, which was brutal, and they said, "All right, we'll make a bill that actually is kind of fair." The president is screaming he wants amnesty. And if you look at the issue...

DOBBS: ... No, he's screaming saying that he wants amnesty but he won't call it amnesty.

RHODES: Right, but he wants amnesty. He wants amnesty because he -- you know, Lou, I looked at the issue of Mexico, because for me, there's no way to solve the problem of people being pushed out of Mexico into the United States without looking at Mexico.

And it seems to me that PMEX, the state-run oil concern in Mexico is exactly what the president and this administration's after. They wanted it at the beginning, before 9/11, they wanted to deal with Vicente Fox, who said, if you let me push out some people, I will think about privatizing PMEX and inviting American oil companies in.

So basically it's humans, amnesty, for oil. It's humans for oil, all over again. That's what's going on. That's the underbelly of this immigration issue that no one wants to talk about....

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