juan: in the unresolved problem segment tonight, the border states are getting a little more help from washington. president obama today signed a 600-million-dollar border security law. it will put more equipment and a thousand new agents on the border. but critics still say it s not enough. bill spoke to two border sheriffs recently about what they re up against. what i m trying to get on my mind for people to ho don t live on the border. how bad the violence son the border and how much it s intruding on american territory. well, it s affected clearly our way of life and our security that when you have just last year alone 241,000 illegal immigrants who are apprehended by the border patrol, and that s just a small reflection of what really came through. and here this wildlife refuge and also parts of my county even though we are 80 plus miles from the border, all of the illegals
anthony ward bought 241,000 tons of europe s cocoa beans. he paid over $1 billion for them. beans could fill five ships the size of the titanic. the transaction is pushing cocoa prices in europe to a 33-year high on fears that a handful of investors are trying to corner the market. if you re a chocoholic, don t worry cocoa prices here state side are actually down. a troubling twist in bp s efforts to contain the oil spill this morning. the federal government saying that tests have now revealed a substance seeping near the well. this news making it even more difficult for experts to try to comprehend the nation s worst environmental disaster. joining me from washington this morning, david mizejewski, a naturalist with the national wildlife federation. david, thanks for being with us this morning. when we originally put out the call to talk to you, we thought at least for now this was capped, there was no oil flowing as of thursday afternoon. now we re learning that because of this s
[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about adding onglyza. extra help. extra control. you may be eligible to pay $10 a month with the onglyza value card program. welcome back, your next favorite chocolate bar could cost you more than it used to. the reason? a hedge fund director is buying up all the cocoa in europe in an interesting and potentially profitable business move for him. 241,000 tons of cocoa beans. that would be enough to make more than 5 billion quarter-pound chocolate bars. it s also enough to fill the titanic five times over. russell pearl, editor for smart money magazine, you compared this to i have never seen the movie, trading places. in trading places, they re
been falling, despite the presence of undocumented immigrants. the numbers have gone down over the last few years, well before this law was ever passed. yes. is that really a justification for this law? absolutely. because we re talking not just the volume that i shared about 241,000 that were apprehended, 500,000 to a million that are coming into our state, which is a direct threat that just last year people are saying that crime rates and everything have gone down nationally. and that is true. the illegal numbers have gone down substantially past years because of some of the gains through president clinton, giving him great credit, president bush. now we have, still in arizona, just last year we became and earned the title of the kidnap capital of america, second in the world only to mexico city. and so we re seeing violence here that is still not seen throughout the rest of the world and we re living in the impact and the effect.
daughter or son walking down main street the president did this with an ice cream cone and a police officer comes up and demands papers from that man. that would never happen. we have a constitution. we have fourth amendment rights that protect and safeguard against unlawful search and seizure. i have over 200 of my staff that are hispanic. what are we talking about here? sheriff, let me just interrupt you for one second. you did say this is a public safety issue to some extent. i m sure you ve read some of the same studies i have that said the crime rates in arizona have actually been falling, despite the presence of undocumented immigrants. the numbers have gone down over the last few years, well before this law was ever passed. yes. is that really a justification for this law? absolutely. because we re talking not just the volume that i shared about 241,000 that were apprehended, 500,000 to a million that are coming into our state, which is a direct threat that just last