Your kid out to get ice cream, you re going to be harassed. that s something that could potentially happen. reporter: russell pierce author the law. shame on president obama and others who spoke before they read the bill. in washington they have a habit of not reading their bills. actually in arizona we read them. reporter: legislators have now changed the law seeking to clarify wh they call misinformation that has stoked the fears of latinos in arizona. the original law stated police can conduct an immigration status check during any, quote, lawful contact, if they have reasonable suspicion a person is an illegal immigrant. it replaces lawful contact with lawful stop, detention, or arrest, clarifying police may not stop people without cause. the revised law also removed the word solely from the phrase the attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color, or national origin. that s intended to remove fears about racial prof
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
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
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