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Time when debate over sb1070 really heated up until now, estimates are that as many as 2-300,000 illegal aliens have left arizona. reporter: that is called attrition through enforcement, the backbone of 1070, and martha, they argue the people, for instance, in the senate yesterday said you can t have a patchwork of laws apply to go immigration, but they say we have that with drugs, with firearms, and it was argued a few years ago with the epa when the bush administration was not enforcing the pollution laws on automobiles, they said well, states, let s go at it more aggressively, so it does work in other areas as well. back to you. martha: something to think about. william, thank you. bill: so a jet forced to make an emergency landing after another bird strike, jetblue flight 571 had just taken off in florida when two canadian geese hit the windshield. here s the pilot with the control tower. ....
Fox report. the jet was headed from florida to west chester new york when it ran into trouble. listen now to the pilot. jetblue 571, we have got to come back. we hit two big geese. jetblue 571, roger. would you like to declare an emergency? we are declaring an emergency. trace: the plane turned around and landed back in west chester. here is how passengers reacted. it was awful. everything seemed fine at first. and then we took off. and it was evident we hit something. and the plane just kept swerving. turning a little bit and then he came on the loud speaker and said we have to make a landing. the minute he said that we were like that s certainly not good. this is the second bird strike in the new york area in less than a week. last thursday a delta flight returned safely to jfk airport after running into birds. and who can forget the miracle on the hudson when captain sully as you will sullenberger ....
By. reporter: and a few moments later would you like to declare an emergency? we are declaring an emergency. reporter: pilots safely guided 571 back to the westchester county airport and the terminal the passengers were put on another jetblue plane and flown to palm beach. there were 54 passengers and four crew members on board and nobody was hurt. it s not yet clear if the bird strike caused any structural damage to the embraer erj-190. latest example of the damage birds can and do cause to big jets. last week a delta flight at jfk had to return to the airport after birds got sucked into the engines there. and it was a bird strike that disabled the engines and forced captain sullenberger into his miracle landing on the hudson. in fact, it s more common than that. i ll say they re not uncommon. they do happen, but we deal with them on a routine basis and most of the time they are just an ....
we ve got to come back, we hit two big geese. jetblue 571, roger. would you like to declare an emergency. we are declaring an emergency. bill: that plane making an emergency landing with all 54 passengers on board. safe, but a bit shaken up, you could shea. o say. relieved i m finally home didn t think i was going to get here! the plane started swerving immediately, right after the two hits, so he was rocking the plane back and forth, and we knew sms was going on, i m going to die, like i m not going to see my family, i m not going to get home. bill: the pilot was trying to shake that bird, jetblue putting the passengers on the next flight to west palm. this is the third flight grounded in the paweek, including air force two, with vice president joe biden on board. clearly you can blame the canadians in this case. martha: i think it would be better if the birds just stay out of the way. when the plane is taking off, the birds should just ....
Getting even richer. wait until you hear about their blockbuster deal. that s coming up later in the skinny. it s a depressing story. i mean, just shows you what it takes these days to get rich. it ain t much. that s the moral of that story. although kim is your gal. i still think she s sexy. am i right, willis? she s worth every penny. yes, indeed. and more. and more. but first, the plane had just taken off heading to florida when the pilot radioed that two birds had hit the windshield. an emergency was declared and the jetblue flight turned around. abc s jim dolan reports from the westchester county airport. reporter: what s left of the geese is splattered on the windshield of the jetblue plane still sitting at the terminal hours after the emergency. it happened just moments after takeoff when a flock of geese flew across the runway. jetblue 571, we got to come back. we hit two big geese. jetblue 571, roger and stand ....