Benson, arizona visitors center, as you are poking around on their website, you will note if you look closely that the curser for your computer mouse has turned into a little locomotive engine. Look. As you are scrolling around the site, you no longer have, like, a little arrow or whatever, its a little train. Its very cool. And if you go in person to the benson, arizona visitors center, there you can operate a real model train around 96 feet of track. You can use the controllers in the control room and its got a camera on the front of it. Very cool, right . Lots to recommend. Benson, arizona a lovely looking little place. Again, population around 5,000 people. The owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks Baseball Team wants to build a new Housing Development in benson, arizona, which would be 28,000 homes. Think about that for a second. There are 5,000 people there now, but they want to put 28,000 houses into that town. Plus golf courses. Golf courses, plural. Multiple golf courses plus the
might happen to his granddaughter in arizona if her parents were ever stopped, told the associated press, i knew the judge would say that part of the law was just not right. the mexican government, meanwhile, called the decision a step in the right direction. back in arizona, governor jan brewer, who signed the law in april and is now running for re-election, called today s setback merely temporary. obviously, it s a little bump in the road, i believe, and that, you know, until i get my whole arms around it, we don t really exactly know where we re going to go. we knew regardless of what happened today, of course, that one side or the other side was going to appeal. on the other side of the issue, arizona congressman raul grialva who called for a boycott of arizona back in april said this afternoon that the boycott should be lifted. i ve called for economic
economically than any one convention or san francisco not doing business with arizona. billions of dollars of trade. billions of dollars of retail sales. visitation, tourism all from latin america. they ve been a great trading partner and great consumers for the state of arizona. and justifiably so. they re saying, there s a law that identifies me as a criminal, why should i go spend my emergency there? last question and you couldn t know about this, because it has been happening while you have been standing there. you ve been attacked on fox news channel as a congressman who s hurting his own constituents by hurting his own businesses. that is a summary of it, lord knows what they said in particular. i m wondering if you wanted to address that while the camera is here. the biggest hurt i can do for the citizens of arizona and the people i represent and for the
good people are so afraid of an out of control border, that they had to resort to a law that i think is un constitutional. until we prove to the american people we can secure our borders and quite frankly, madam secretary we have a long way to go. but once we get there, comprehensive reform should come up, will come up, and i believe we can do it by 2012. joining us once again tonight, arizona congressman raul grialva. the house is not going to move on immigration according to the leadership of the democratic party until the senate does. is senator graham right that immigration is dead in the senate until the border with mexico is closed?
we will begin to monitor that situation. well, it is that season. you remember that c controversial law just passed. someone is saying, ignore the law now. it is an arizona congressman who is saying that. you see these pictures here. these are from protesters over the weekend. they are upset over that law which requires police officers to check citizenship and calls on police to turn over anyone without papers to federal agents. the congressman, raul grialva wants president obama to tell the federal agents to ignore the law and wants the justice department to check if the law is even legal. we will have more on this story many could go up next hour. crews are still trying to stop a pretty big oil leak in the gulf of mexico right now. it is coming from the pipeline beneath the oil rig that exploded and sank last week. you are seeing some of the pictures from last week. about 42000 gals are leaking out every single day. the leak is about a mile down.