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Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate in next month’s Alabama Senate special election against Republican Judge Roy Moore, previously defended a man with strong ties to the Ku Klux Klan and Holocaust deniers, FOX News has revealed.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked if Democrats will shut the government down over the DREAM Act, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he was “not prepared to go home for the holidays” until they got their “work done.” Partial transcript as follows:  BASH: Gentlemen, I want to turn to something that is looming. Unless Congress acts, the federal government is going to run out of money in less than two weeks. Sen Durbin members of your party are threatening to not vote for the bill unless they protect Dreamers, those are children who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents. Is this contingent on finding a legislative solution for Dreamers? DURBIN: There are a number of things we have to do by the end of the year. We heard on an earlier program right here on your network that we face the end of the children’s health insurance program, the community health care clinic program, that’s also expired. But we believe, Senator Graham and I do, that we have a fixable priority in the DREAM Act. a bipartisan solution to this problem to make sure that these young people have a chance to earn their way

One week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005, President George W. Bush consulted with his team of crisis advisers and inundated the Gulf Coast with cheap, illegal alien labor.