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about arizona's controversial immigration law. you have been hearing about this for quite sometime. there has been impassioned debate on both sides of this issue. people saying and really just getting fired up in this country about this law. some say it will be discriminatory. others say, hey, this is just a upholding the law and doing what the dpg will not do. all of that passionate debate now. moves to another place. we're going to court now. this is the first of these challenges that are going to be going to be heard in front of a judge. now this one involves a phoenix police offi...

investigated. >> two hours from now, a phoenix police officer asks a federal judge to block the new immigration law. one of the nation's most crime infested cities cuts its payroll. oakland, california warns more layoffs may be coming. >> people say you can do more with less. we can't do that anymore. and president obama's military drawdown picks up speed in iraq and the scramble is on to cut troop numbers to 50,000 by the end of august. good morning, those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. happening this hour, developments unfolding on two maj...

alert. new video from arizona's so-called illegal alien pipeline. surveillance cameras capturing what the filmmakers call the escalating dangers of weapons and drug smuggling on our border with mexico. this is from the center of immigration studies just as the immigration debate heats up. some of this illegal activity is up to 80 miles inside of the arizona border and some of it is taking place on federal land. trace gallagher has more on this from our west coast newsroom in l.a. >> reporter: this is the second documentary from the center for immigration studies, it's called hidden c...

His opposition to sb 1070 is based on several broad constitutional arguments. one is that the law violates the 14th amendment, which guarantees minorities full rights as u.s. citizens. the other claim is that the law conflicts with what's known as the supremacy clause of the constitution. he argue sths that it gives the federal government, not state and local police forces authority over immigration laws. he also says that the law is having a chilling effect on his first amendment rights to speak out against it. tj? >> well, casey, what does, i guess this also has to be kind of torn. because t...

January -- or july 29th, which is of course when the law goes into effect. the law was filed by david salgado, he's the phoenix police officer, a hispanic man who says the law would force him to target hispanics. listen. >> i had to take the step of faith on blocking this law because i had a duty to do that. >> reporter: the arizona attorneys for governor brewer say that this lawsuit has no merit, one because the law has yet to take effect, so there is no way to prove racial profiling and two, because racial profiling is not allowed, and the law says it four times. megyn. megyn: before i let y...