Immigration: Utah wants world to know it’s no Arizona

By David Montero

The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Mar 05 2011 06:30PM
Updated 8 hours ago Updated Mar 6, 2011 12:14AM

Now that state lawmakers have passed an enforcement-only immigration bill and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert, the tricky task of convincing the rest of America that Utah didn’t just go down Arizona’s path begins.

The Legislature did its best to distance itself from Arizona’s SB1070 in the past week — requiring Rep. Stephen Sandstrom to drop HB70, the enforcement-only immigration bill he’d worked on for 10 months, give it a new title and a new number and scrap “objectionable languageâ€