[ crowd cheering ] extraterrestrials, they re not coming here to say hi, they re coming here to eat us and kill us, so says stephen hawking. run away! that s next. but first, tonight s worst persons in the world. the bronze, to thai spice restaurant in australia. staffers prevented someone from entering the restaurant because they believed his dog was gay. i ll just repeat that. staffers prevented him fromment everything the restaurant because they believed his dog was gay. even for australia this was a little too homophobic. thai spice was ordered to give him a written apology. apparently the woman with him as
a lot of them are in appalachia, midsouth, et cetera. do they use this to appeal to independents and republicans already worried about the role of government, et cetera, et cetera, or do they really acknowledge what all of their strategists tell them, which is that long-term it is a huge disaster for the republican party to be seen as anti-latino. when latinos are now one out of every six americans, 45 million latinos in america. the percentage of their vote is going up election by election, even in off-year elections and beyond that, keith. with all fair-minded americans, which, you know, let s give us the benefit of the doubt and say that s just about everybody, the idea that a person could be walking down the street and could be looked at with suspicion by authorities and have their papers demanded of them in the fashion of old medieval europe is something that is so foreign to americans understanding of themselves,
tancredo worrying, tancredo worrying that people would be, quote, pulled over because they look like they should be pulled over. homeland security secretary napolitano calling the new immigration law misguided. she vetoed similar bills when she was governor of arizona. secretary adding we need a federal immigration system to address, quote, this patchwork of laws, which is also what was said at the white house. you have very much what could be 50 immigration laws. because without us acting, we ve deferred to the states, i think the president has said and i think leaders in arizona certainly on both sides of this issue have said that this is a wake-up call for the federal government to act. and good luck getting the federal government to act. a house democratic aide today e-mailing talking points memo, quote, my boss was told in no uncertain terms her leadership that there is no way we re doing immigration reform this year, just no way. another adviser, quote, we just
and stephen hawking says aliens from space could hurt us. such perhaps aliens would become nomads conquering whatever they can find. hawkings says that? let s get out of here. all the news and commentary next on countdown. good evening from new york. protests continuing at this hour at the state capitol of phoenix, arizona. while calls for and outlines of boycotts of the various and extremely vulnerable aspects of one of that state s primary exports, tourism takes place. what we gan last week with congress grijalva, people may want to think twice before going to arizona, this because of arizona s new immigration measure already disturbed the show us your papers act.
ultimately what do you think the point is of this law? is it really just about immigration and a porous border or is there something about wearing out latinos who want to live there, particularly those who want to go vote there? you know, i think they understand that the latino community isn t going anywhere. those that have come under desperate straits are probably going to say, what you re going to do is push them further underground and allow them to be further exploited in the condition that they re in. but i think what it really is, it s the easy out, right? it s like, let s blame someone. you know, we have a failing foreclosure system with homes going in foreclosure. we have a high unemployment. the educational system really isn t serving our children well. you know what? why don t we just go after those immigran immigrants? and i ve got to say this. this is not new. this is pretty old stuff. when the irish came here? oh, they talked about crime and how it was going to be terri