Yet interviews with several such employees show that Dobbs has been far from vigilant about the status of workers laboring on his own properties. Yes. But at his hourly wage of $9, Jorge said, he was "not able to save much money" after covering his rent and bills. This arrangement has benefits, as Gomez points out; for example, the workers don’t have to pay rent. And I think I’ll enjoy this approach just as much as I did the former. Isabel Macdonald Explains on Democracy Now! Miguel was making only $8 an hour. During shows in which Gomez was caring for the Dobbs Group horses, Dobbs’s daughter would sometimes give him a $100 weekly tip, according to Gomez. For his part, Gomez is so afraid he will not be able to return to the United States that he has not seen his mother and brothers at all since immigrating six years ago, at the age of 18. Last question. It’s good for the soul. The risks of apprehension were particularly great for the stable workers, whose work caring for the Dobbs Group horses forced them to travel constantly—including to border areas closely monitored by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. His employer "knew very well that the majority of us didn’t have papers," he said, but this was "never a problem." He recently told Fox’s Sean Hannity that he has not ruled out a possible Senate or even presidential run in 2012. How’s life on the farm? It’s also my responsibility because I did not go specifically to the Latino community in this country and say, “This is who I am and this is what I think.” And that is what I’m changing now. A Texas native who grew up in Idaho, Dobbs and his wife, Debbi, have lived since 1984 on a 300-acre horse farm in the Sussex County town of Wantage, where they have raised four children. That was [the result of] the effort of far left-wing groups identifying me that way in the Latino community. The stable owner knew "that some people didn’t have papers," Gomez said, and had even taken precautions to keep the workers away from the immigration agents who often patrol the areas around horse shows. You always, always have to be at work." The workers are transported to the tropics too, returning to New England with the horses in April. "He was waiting for the train—nothing more," his brother Jorge explained. Jorge said that he’d come to America to earn better wages—"to live better." Biederman took over and finally filed the visa applications for Clark’s workers in June 2009, including for workers caring for Dobbs Group horses. I make careful evaluations and I make grown up, responsible decisions. Gomez said it was hard to believe that Dobbs’s daughter, who was in close contact with these undocumented workers almost every weekend, could have been unaware of their status. I go out and watch the horses play in the streams and in the pond. Indeed, the state’s Medicaid costs are expected to rise almost 10 percent as a result of his plan, and the financial burden on employers and middle-class families will also rise. The upkeep of Dobbs’s multiple properties creates no small demand for labor in two sectors where undocumented immigrants are known to be particularly prevalent. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Bon Jovi or Bruce Springsteen? if( isMobile.any() ){ You reached this page when attempting to access https://www.whitepages.com/name/Lou-Dobbs/Sussex-NJ from 68.66.226.83 on 2020-11-03 13:14:24 UTC. On Bill O’Reilly’s show you described yourself as a “wiser Lou Dobbs.” How so? While there is some disagreement over whether federal labor laws apply to horse stable workers, according to West Palm Beach labor lawyer Jill Hanson, the working conditions described by these stable workers likely violate both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act—which requires time-and-a-half pay for hours worked beyond a forty-hour workweek—and a Florida law that requires overtime pay for any workday longer than ten hours. Isabel MacdonaldIsabel Macdonald is a freelance journalist and former communications director of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Here’s Why. As Gomez told me, "Here one can’t leave." Louis Carl Dobbs (born September 24, 1945) is an American television commentator, proponent of legal immigration radio show host, and the anchor of Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business Network. There are a few reasons this might happen: To request an unblock, please fill out the form below and we will review it as soon as possible. [Dobbs] is in self-quarantine tonight. Seated on an outdoor bench near the stable, the Mexico City native told the story of how he had crossed the Yuma Desert on foot, from the Mexican city of San Luis Río Colorado and into the United States, eluding the border patrol. Seated on the concrete barn floor, his back against the wooden siding of a horse stall, he explained that the work requires him to "be available twenty-four hours a day." Salinas said he braved the journey for one reason—because he had the promise of a job on the other end. He’s a good guy, despite his politics. Select this result to view Lou L Dobbs's phone number, address, and more. But he says he was never paid overtime. call_ad_new('halfpage','tn_article','ad-halfpage-81358-0','rectangle_1',{"tn_author":"'isabel-m'","tn_articleid":81358,"tn_ptype":"article","tn_keyword":"'corporate-'","tn_subject":"'immigratio', 'media', 'the-right'","tn_slp":""}); Bruce Springsteen, without hesitation. In Lou Dobbs’s heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for "his fearless reporting and commentary," in the words of former CNN president Jonathan Klein, the host became notorious for his angry rants against "illegal aliens." They have four children together, one son, Jason Dobbs and three daughters, Heather, Hillary, and Buffie Dobbs. According to Ortega, the two had a brief interaction, during which Dobbs instructed him to tell his boss that a certain plant needed to be moved in the garden. In the official results of her competitions, her horses’ owner is always listed as The Dobbs Group—a corporate entity for which few details are available on the public record. Dobbs lives in a sprawling white mansion on his 300-acre estate in Sussex, New Jersey, where he and his family run a horse farm. At the time Dobbs said that, an undocumented Guatemalan worker laboring in his own yard, Miguel Garcia, was being paid only $8 an hour. It took three months for these H-2B visa applications to be processed, Biederman said. After a week in immigration detention, Miguel was deported to Guatemala. But it wasn’t an accident. The two brothers worked two and a half to three hours each week for more than three years on the upkeep of the lawns, gardens and trees at Dobbs’s house, Garcia said. You're a power user moving through this website with super-human speed. They ride in trucks each way alongside their expensive equestrian charges, tending to the horses’ needs throughout the thirty-two-hour journey. Jersey Monthly. Debi was a sports anchor at the CNN channel. When I asked whether he had a green card or guest-worker visa while he worked for the stable hired by Dobbs, he shook his head: "I looked after Dobbs’s horses while I was illegal.". Several hours later, when he finished his ten-hour workday, Salinas recounted how he had come to the United States five years ago for a job. It’s going to take a little while. Hillary Dobbs did not respond to repeated attempts to contact her for comment. Neither did his brother. In the case of Lou Dobbs, who made his name and his fortune lambasting "illegals" and their employers, the irony is breathtaking. Ortega, who was one of approximately fifteen Latin American employees of the company, recalled meeting Dobbs one day while he was working on his garden: "He told me, in Spanish, that his name was Luis." Are Lou Dobbs’s Workers Undocumented? And I’m going to change that. jQuery('#expand-reduce-81358').click(function(){ Copyright (c) 2020 The Nation Company LLC. Lou Dobbs. Host and commentator Lou Dobbs joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in November of … Ortega said he had been responsible for "cutting the grass, cutting the trees, cleaning the garden—all the garden work" at Dobbs’s house for more than three years. For more information, visit our Privacy PolicyX. Democracy Now! Have you been misunderstood by the Latino community? We’re breeding what are called European warm-bloods for show-jumping. As Jorge explained, the two of them had family they needed to support back home, including Miguel’s wife and three children. Ortega said his status was far from a secret. Workers relied on their manager to transport them once a week to buy groceries at a store a half-hour’s drive away. While all horses require extensive maintenance, the labor entailed in the upkeep of competition horses like the ones ridden by "Dobbs’s million dollar baby" (as the New York Post dubbed Hillary) is particularly strenuous. Salinas got the job, he said, and worked at it for more than two years without documents until he was finally able to obtain a guest-worker visa designed for seasonal foreign workers (the same kind of visa denounced as a form of "indentured servitude" on Dobbs’s CNN show). At these shows, it is not unusual for the grooms who care for Dobbs’s horses to rise in the middle of the night or in the predawn hours to clean, brush and prepare the horses for a training session or early morning competition. Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson, After Philadelphia Police Shot and Killed Walter Wallace, To Repair Our Country, Start by Repairing Our Political Language, Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now. Originally from the town of Momostenango in Guatemala’s department of Totonicapán, Jorge came to the United States looking for work seven years ago. Salinas traveled back to see his three kids and wife in Mexico on four occasions, but to avoid being apprehended he had to travel by bus, an exceptionally long journey from Vermont. "The Pay Is Bad" for Work in Dobbs’s Gardens. They have also lived in Sparta, NJ and Wyckoff, NJ plus 4 other locations. Yet the landscaping work was sometimes dangerous, he said, especially when workers were required to prune Dobbs’s trees and taller bushes.

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