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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order Tuesday for all law enforcement personnel to be retrained in the standards necessary to enforce SB 1070, a controversial immigration bill.

"The training is going to address things like what the various forms of identification are that constitute legal status, that prove legal status for somebody who gets stopped by a law officer," said Brewer's spokesman, Matthew Benson. "It's also going to make clear that an individual's race, color or national origin alone is not ground for reasonable suspicion that they're in the country illegally."

The training will be issued through DVDs.

The Supreme Court is expected to decide on the fate of the law sometime during the summer.

Martha Maurer, News Editor

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    Patriot wrote...
    Arizona and America
    June 12, 2012 5:23 pm
    wait anxiously to move forward with SB1070 in wake of the Feds blatant failure to enforce immigration laws because political pandering is far more important than the numerous issues related to illegal immigration.
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    The Chemist wrote...
    For a State that depends heavily on tourism
    June 13, 2012 7:59 am
    What a shout out for foreign people. YOU WILL BE HARASSED IN AZ. Great job Brewer (sarcastic)....you are screwing up again!!!
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    Patriot wrote...
    Tourism is not an excuse
    June 13, 2012 8:01 am
    for ignoring the law and your point about being harrassed is moot. The law is the same today as it was yesterday, someone has to have committed another crime or stopped by the police for something else before they can be checked.
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    The Chemist wrote...
    @ Patriot
    June 13, 2012 8:05 am
    really? What prevents Arpaio's or Babeu's goon squad to put up checkpoints at their discretion anywhere in their counties and start checking on ID's just for the sake of it...on the ruse of a DUI's or any other reason? This "law" is open season on racial profiling...and you know it. You just can't be that naive!!!!
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    The Chemist wrote...
    @ Patriot
    June 13, 2012 8:07 am
    Or you forgot that a McDonald's in Sun City was raided by Arpaio's goon squad solely because some old geezer said that there were "people speaking Spanish and were brown working there"? And...that they did not find any issue with ID's? So...you really are that naive to think that racial profiling will not happen under SB 1070? This stupidity will be another nail on the coffin of AZ's image to the world. We are already considered a backwards, bizarre, nativist, bigot state...and with these actions we will only be considered worse.
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    The Chemist wrote...
    Tourism will be hurt...big time.
    June 13, 2012 8:11 am
    I have a friend that is from Argentina, he does not have brown skin. He was having dinner in a restaurant in Desert Ridge. It seems that there was a disturbance and the cops were called in. All brown people that were working, and DINING were asked for ID"s but he was not. Don't tell me that this was not racial profiling. He said that he would never return to AZ as long as he lives and that he would get the word out for his friends and family to do the same. Don't tell me that this is "good" for AZ.
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    Isn't
    June 13, 2012 9:05 am
    the requirement in SB1070 to show a valid ID when a person is encountered during a police event like a traffic stop or other encounter? If a person is an illegal this would be a problem huh.......
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    h8whttrsh wrote...
    ....yeah right
    June 13, 2012 9:31 am
    Should,nt leatherface wait til the Supreme Court hands out it's ruling. It still can go either way, eventually it will be thrown out. Just goes to show you how desperate the hag is. i hope once the law gets tossed, losers like patriot anfd minutewoimen will leave the state. they are not needed in Az, and should go back to whatever hole in the wall they came from. they are the same . They have no mother.
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    Patriot wrote...
    RE: Chemist
    June 13, 2012 10:37 am
    What if, what if, what if....you can apply that to anything the police does so your point is more of hype and pandering to the open border crowd. As with any allegation into police misconduct, it would be investigated and treated similar to unlawful search and seizure.
    **ICE Tip-line 1-866-DHS-2ICE**
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    Patriot wrote...
    RE; Chemist
    June 13, 2012 10:40 am
    Stopping and conducting questioning for reasonable suspicion is not something found solely in AZ. This legal and happens all over the U.S. so spare us the BS.
    **ICE Tip-line 1-866-DHS-2ICE**

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