biased citizen | 9:30 p.m. Sept. 17, 2007
It is time the news media stopped portraying illegal aliens as innocent,suffering underdogs wanting to strive for a better life.
They are lawbreakers raping the system at every chance. Your biased articles only encourage more illegal aliens to come here and betray the obligation you have to accurately report the truth.
observer | 12:21 a.m. Sept. 18, 2007
as I read thru the comments is not anti immigrations is anti-mexican for a religous state is pretty harsh stand when is not about the money but fellowship
Observation | 9:12 p.m. Sept. 19, 2007
Reading this article I am struck by a similarity to an article published by the Deseret News several years ago about the residents of (GASP) San Pete County.
If I remember correctly, both articles describe their areas as a failing agricultural area in poverty where people were desperately trying to either scrape up a living or attempting to leave.
Only difference I can see is that the residents of this county were US Citizens and obviously the others were Mexican.
My question is why are we going down to Mexico to get a sob story on foreign people in a failing agricultural community when we apparently have one or more of our own? Are we next going to China to report on a failing agricultural community where the residents are trying to get here illegally to have a better life? What other countries are we going to go to to have these types of stories?
Bottom line, we need to fix our own problems (and we have our own fair share of them, don't we?) before we take on someone else's.

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Efren Carrillo, 14, likes the rural Mexican town where he lives because he's close to animals, but he longs to return to Wendover, Utah, his birthplace.

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