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The line and broke a law, now that you have the information before you, you are compelled as the law enforcement officer to act. if they are here illegally, you are supposed to do something about it. how do you answer them? >> it's not a state responsibility to do this. we are procolluded from using the information by federal law to turn it over to i.c.e. they are clear, as we gather information in the course of work and find out somebody may be in an illegal status mode, we can do nothing with the information. this is information gathered illegally. it's like having a search and siezure witho...

>> uncle sam uses eminent domain to seize private property. one state says a reason it cannot use the-- to take land. utah passing a law to do that. there's a serious debate over the effectiveness of the legislation and whether it can stand up in court. eric shawn has more. >> and they're saddling up for a battle against the federal government. the rubble state representative is part of a utah move to try to use eminent domain to claim federal land. >> we were supposed to be able to use the land and have ultimately used capacity, but we can't because of all the laws that have been put out ther...

Government. part of a utah move to try to use eminent domain to claim federal land. >> we were supposed to be able to use the land in a multiple use capacity, but we can't, because of all the laws that have been put out there by the federal government and the environmental community has made it more difficult. >> republican governor gary herbert who signed the law says utah has a right to its own land. just over 68% of the state is controlled by washington. >> the federal government is intruding too much in the area of state responsibility. time for us to push back and say it's too much overre...

A right to its own land, and just over 6 % of the state is controlled by washington. >> the federal government is encroaching a little too much into the areas of state responsibility and it is time to push back and say, that is a bit too much overreach into our responsibilities as states and certainly here in the west we have a significant overreach when it comes to public lands. >> eric: this land could be the first test. if the grand staircase escalante monument, there is an estimated $1 trillion of coal reserves beneath part of the federal land, and some in the state want the right to tap i...

Is your land. utah wants its land back. the state is resorting to imminent domain against washington to try to do that. you know, nearly 70% of utah's land is controlled by the federal government and as you can see there, are vast stretches of breath taking beauty and unending natural vistas and the state's new law signed by the government will try and use imminent domain to reclaim the land from feds and say the move could bring money for the education and help the economy and if salt lake controlled the federal lands instead of washington and utah's governor told us he thinks the government ...