For many years, conservative broadcaster, Lou Dobbs, has been an outspoken opponent on many immigration issues facing the U.S. It has been well publicized that as of Wed., November 11 — he was resigning his position in order to pursue “constructive problem solving” as an advocate and journalist.

What will this mean for Comprehensive Immigration Reform? Pro-immigration groups are celebrating the possibilities…

Will it mean less incendiary rhetoric based on an alarmist political platform? Will it foster an actual serious debate about the changing dynamics of the melting pot that is the United States? If CIR is to succeed, it must take in the rational view points and well-supported arguments put forth by both liberals and conservatives. Let’s hope that with less lip service, we may actually be able to hear each other at lobbying tables and in the halls of Congress.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/11/lou.dobbs.leaving/index.html#cnnSTCText