Thread: UT: Still Refusing To use the phrase ILLEGAL immigration?

The immigration issue in 2010
December 27th, 2010 @ 9:48pm
By Bruce Lindsay
SALT LAKE CITY - States took on the issue of immigration this year in frustration over Washington's failure to act. Arizona led the charge for radical reform and Utah was right behind.

The Utah legislature passed a law that allowed police to be cross-deputized as immigration officers. But the immigration debate got heated when Utah's neighbor to the south passed polarizing legislation.

The country's toughest law against illegal immigration took effect in Arizona in July. It obligated police to determine immigration status if there was reasonable suspicion a person was in the country illegally.

The Arizona law spurred marches across the country by people who feared it would prompt similar laws in other states and it did.

"Utah needs a law because every time Arizona has cracked down in immigration, there has been an increase of illegal aliens coming to the state of Utah," said Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, (R) Orem.

Sandstrom crafted a bill to criminalize undocumented status as a state felony. He garnered both support and opposition.

"Any time that we engage in policing based on race, based on ethnicity, language, gender, there's a whole list of things, but if we're taking enforcement action, using those as criteria for taking different enforcement action with different people, that's wrong," said Salt Lake City Police chief Chris Burbank.

Around the time Sandstrom announced plans for his bill... a list of 13-hundred supposed illegal immigrants in Utah began circulating. It included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and some Social Security numbers.

The information leak was traced to two employees at the Utah Department of Workforce Services. "The List," as it became known, stirred a pot already boiling over with emotion.

Community leaders like, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Lane Beattie, hoped to change the tone of the debate created the Utah Compact.

"Utah's immigration policies must reaffirm our global reputation as a welcoming and business-friendly state," said Beattie.

The Utah Compact outlined five guiding principles for immigration reform: federal solutions, law enforcement, support for families, the economy and a free society.

The influence of the Utah Compact will be measured when the Legislature convenes next month. More than a dozen immigration bills are expected to be introduced.


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"hoped to change the tone"

Really? How about this "tone"? If you're in the United States illegally, get out and go home.

Originally Posted by Judy

"hoped to change the tone"

Really? How about this "tone"? If you're in the United States illegally, get out and go home.

you forgot the word hell!

that ok Az you stay Tough we are by your side . this is American we have to be tough . Obama don't care , & congress don't care at all so we all Have to Be that way . so go the hell home you don't like the law Of USA get the hell out . no one told you to come over .

No Amnesty No Amnesty

Screw your Global reputation .

Utah is full of open borders idiots,the problem is that the majority of the people want the law enforced and ILLEGAL ALIENS thrown out on their butts. In the end the people will rule and they will be gone, the Sandstrom bill will prevail.

If the MSM would TELL THE TRUTH and say when a crime was committed it was an ILLEGAL then there would be NO CHANCE IN HELL the panderers to illegals would even have the gall to sell their illegal takeover to any media. Americans would read the truth and get MADDER than HELL.