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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
News Utah: Doing Immigration Right?
Posted by Mari Herreras on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:33 PM
The Salt Lake Tribune reported Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is working to create a Utah-specific guest-worker pilot program—so they don't have to take the Arizona route and be made fun of on Comedy Central:
“We’re talking about a comprehensive program that would allow highly educated workers from whatever country … people who may have overstayed their visas or however they got here, to find a way to allow them to continue to contribute to our economy,” said chamber spokesman Marty Carpenter.Rep. John Dougall, R-Highland, said he has talked with Shurtleff twice about working on a different approach to immigration than many of his conservative legislative colleagues have taken that would focus on giving the state more authority over immigration issues.
“I hope to work with him and find what I call a meaningful free market approach to immigration,” Dougall said, one that relies more on state authority than relying on a broken federal system. “More reliance on the federal government is not the answer. We need a state solution and a uniquely Utah approach.”
Shurtleff said Dougall suggested that the state could issue its own visas.
Shurtleff opposes Arizona’s tough immigration law — which requires officers to verify the legal status of anyone stopped, detained or arrested by police — saying it leads to second-guessing of officers or, potentially, profiling of suspects.
“It puts cops in an absolutely untenable position, where they have to decide, ‘Do I ask this person for identification?’ … Even though the law says you can’t consider race, what else are you going to consider?”
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I nominate this article for the Calderon Gold Medal in the field rank hypocrisy on the subject of immigration! Anyone who follows this issue will recall that President Calderon of Mexico recently came to the US and bashed Arizona and SB 1070 for it's supposed discrimination against Mexican citizens and their right to "migrate" unfettered in and out of the United States. Later when asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if someone could just walk into Mexico he replied of course not they have to apply and we have to verify who they are - and if they look for a job without permission? "Oh we send them back" he said without a hint of self-realization. So now we have Utah and those who oppose SB 1070 who criticize it as an infringement of Federal responsibility on immigration - they have the solution: UTAH "relying on state authority" will issue visas to foreigners "no matter how they got here!!"...Presidente Calderon step aside...there's a new king of crazy
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