Shurtleff, Bramble: States forcing feds’ hand on immigration
By Matt Canham

The Salt Lake Tribune
First published 3 hours ago
Updated 12 minutes ago

Washington » The road leading to a new national immigration policy will wind its way through the states — and it will be bumpy, confusing and most likely long, say two Utah leaders active in the debate.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and state Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, participated in a panel discussion Tuesday at the National Press Club, arguing that states will continues to pass varying, and even contradictory, immigration laws, ultimately forcing the federal government to set a new national norm.

Bramble called it “the tipping pointâ€