simply it s like declaring war. arizona can t declare war in mexico. that s a federal responsibility. same thing with immigration. that s the theory behind the lawsuit. okay. for more on the implications of this legal showdown, let s go to cnn s casey wian. here s the deal, we have a challenge from the federal government. now the state of arizona gets to respond. what s the state planning to do here? reporter: the state of arizona is clearly going to fight this lawsuit, and they say they re going to continue to go ahead and try to implement this legislation. governor jan brewer sent out a tweet yesterday, immediately after the federal government announced their lawsuit, saying that we will continue to enforce or we will try to enforce the immigration laws, because obama won t do it to paraphrase her tweet. the az post, which is the police officer standard and trainings board in arizona, they re moving ahead with the training video that they have released last week that basically
or az post. several times, critics of the new immigration bill are addressed. they doubt your professionalism and doubt your ethics and integrity. that is unfair and unearned. they will get training credits for watching it but there is no requirement they watch it. opponents of the bill like a phoenix attorney says it s a problem. we will know which officers were trained and which were not. clearly we believe that even with training there is going to be a potential for racial profiling. gregg: that was mark martinez reporting. new rule that overdrafts can save you cold cash but could it cost you in other ways. how to protect yourself from possible new fees. stick around for that.
arizona s new immigration laws that allows police to question anyone suspected of being in the u.s. illegally. casey wian reports from phoenix. reporter: from the moment she signed arizona s new law targeting illegal immigrants, governor jan brewer did little to calm the fear and anger felt by opponents with a stumbling answer to a simple but loaded question. what does an illegal immigrant look like? does it look like me? i do not know. i do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like, but i know that if az post gets themselves together, works on this law, puts down the description, that the law will be enforced civilly, fairly, and without discriminatory points to it. az post is the agency that trains police officers, a description of an illegal immigrant or racial profiling was never part of the original law. yet, president obama apparently didn t see it that way. now, suddenly if you don t
day, a good guy by the way, a straight shooter. do we have that tape, chris? put that up if you could. let s watch this together. mr. aguilar, i ll bring you in that. would you ask that question of her? no, the question itself seems judgmental. i think that s a good point for you to make. then why did she try to answer it? rick, that too is an unfair question. because i m putting you in a situation where you may have to criticize your own governor. and i don t want to do that to you. thank you. he kind of knew what we were getting at there. it s almost like the governor was saying she was going to have az post put out a description of what an illegal immigrant looks like. ouch. you also agree that that wouldn t have been right, correct? well, it wouldn t make legal sense because the a person being unlawfully present in the country has no look. a person can be from any corner of the globe. thank you. it s defined by conduct. so your conduct might be that you re act
all right? i m looking at it. it says line 20, page 1, for any lawful act made by a law enforcement official, a reasonable attempt shall be made when practicable to determine the immigration status of that person. once again, for any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official. do you know what that means? because i don t. i think we re also trying to figure that one out. there is definitely very differing opinions as to what it may mean. obviously i was like a dog with a bone with this story, trying to figure out exactly what it meant, what did the governor mean when she came out the next day and said i m not sure what an illegal immigrant looks like, but i m going to ask the az post, the police board there in arizona to put out a description, which perplexed a lot of folks around the country as well. just from a constitutional point of view. no one could answer that question. so lawmakers patiently got the message. and today they proposed some