Status check during any lawful contact, if they have reasonable suspicion a person is an illegal immigrant. it replaces lawful contact with lawful stop, detention or arrest. they may not stop people without cause. it removes the word solely from the phrase, shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin. that is intended to remove fears about racial profiling. some in law enforcement say confusion will persist. it puts my officers in a very difficult position. if they enforce the law or if they don t enforce the law. so they re being put in place where if they enforce state law they are going to be sued because they are violating federal law. if they abide by federal statute, they are going to be sued because they re not enforcing the state law. reporter: friday brewer signed the revised version of the law. the protestors here seem to have
Say confusion will persist. it puts my officers in a very difficult position. if they enforce the law or if they don t enforce the law. so they re being put in a place where if they enforce state law, they re going to be sued because they re violating federal law. if they abide by federal statute, they re going to be sued because they re not enforcing the state law. reporter: friday brewer signed the revised version of the law. here outside governor brewer s office at the arizona state capitol, we re expecting protesters later today. they still don t like the law even with those revisions. t.j.? that was going to be my next question. are they saying it s still not good enough? what do they want to do in they want it to be scrapped no matter what changes you make to it, is that right? reporter: they want president obama and the federal government to step in and exercise their authority that the federal government has sole discretion to enforce immigration laws in
Origin. even so, some in law enforcement say confusion will persist. it puts my officers in a very difficult position. if they enforce the law or if they don t enforce the law. so they re being put in a place where if they enforce state law, they re going to be sued because they re violating federal law. if they abide by federal statute, they re going to be sued because they re not enforcing the state law. reporter: friday brewer signed the revised version of the law. casey wian is live for us in phoenix. casey, this was supposed to make the critics feel better, these changes, but how are they taking to the changes now? reporter: t.j., they still don t like this law. some of the problems they have with it is that it will allow police who are investigating municipal code violations to investigate someone s immigration status, so potentially someone who has got a barking dog or someone who has got grass that s overgrown and someone complainses about that, police could come and re
They don t enforce the law. so they re being put in a place where if they enforce state law, they re going to be sued, because they re violating federal law. if they abide by federal statute, they re going to be sued because they re not enforcing the state law. reporter: friday brewer signed receipt vised version of the law. now, there was an incident late yesterday afternoon that is certain to intensify all of this debate. a sheriff s deputy in arizona halfway between phoenix and tucson and in an area very well traveled by illegal immigrant smugglers and drug trafficker, a sheriff s deputy was shot by a suspected marijuana smuggler. he encountered a group of five men heavily armed. one had an ac 47. the deputy was shot in the left side of his abdomen, just beside his kidney. flown out by thoept the hospital. the helicopter came under fire