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Enforcing the law right away, right? >> yes, governor jan brewer sent out a tweet today saying she is going to move full steam ahead the arizona state authorities have put together a training video that was just released last week instruct its officers throughout the state to really look at how this law sued be implemented and -- within the framework of the constitution. they say the entire country is watching law enforcement officers in the state of arizona. it will be up to the courts to decide whether those officers will have the opportunity to enforce this law, campbell. >> casey wian for ...

In state, the entire country is watching you, because of the controversy over this issue u. so when you go about enforcing this law, you need to be very careful to respect everyone's civil rights, and go along with the letter of the law and not racially profile anyone, which, of course, has been the main concern of those activists who have been protesting this law, tony. >> well, casey, then that brings us to the next question. how does arizona plan to implement this law? >> well, they're distributing this training video to law enforcement officers throughout the state. they also are saying th...

In cities like phoenix and police chief and -- in phoenix is opposed to this law because they say it is going to make illegal immigrants and others in immigrant communities afraid to cooperate with police on other crimes. the law enforce many officers in rural areas along those the border, drug smugglers and illegal immigrants smugglers wreaked so much havoc on those cities with violence, those officers support this law because they are fed up with the federal government's inability to control the border. >> fed up with the feds. what are the state officials going to do now? >> they are pressi...

So arizona has a new training video to help police officers avoid racial profiling but reactions are split on whether or not it will work. here now with more on the video -- >> people can check out td video on arizona's official website. a big part of the 90-minute video deals with racial profiling. it shows a series of law enforcement officials talking about racial profiling and tells officers how to avoid being accused of it. listen to this. >> there will be those that fully intend to test our officers and their professionalism and to determine whether or not they will use race as a determin...

To be baited by the questions that may be posed to you by individuals whose purpose is to find arizona police officers discriminatory in nature. >> the video goes on to explain the law in detail and gives officers clues to consider to form a suspicion on whether someone is here illegally like for example dress, if a vehicle is over crowded and significant difficulty communicating in english. critics say it's impossible to form a reasonable suspicion about a person's legal status without taking race into account. proponents say nothing in the law allows racial profiling. but we're asking you, w...