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What's needed is change to the anti immigrant attitude, practice, and law. We should be more tolerant, welcoming, and helpful to our neighbors, especially from this continent. We don't need laws like this one that are just piling on!
C'MON SENATORS, TAKE A STEP FORWARD AND LEAD THE FEDS. We can afford to tolerate and even help the poor among us. This bill is the absolute wrong direction.
Please, senators, tell the feds to change their immigration laws to be more tolerant, welcoming, and helpful towards our neighbors. Mexicans are our friends, we don't need to fence them out, with physical fences, nor with legal fences.
What is so hard about printing THE TRUTH ?
"Measure targets Illegals" Is this so hard?
Are you the Deseret Morning News, or The Orwellian Morning News?
YOUR CALL, or will you continue to treat your readers as stupid?
It doesn't SOLVE the problem, any more than "rounding them up and sending them home". It just shifts the problem to another state.
Build a wall around Utah, maybe?
Doing a little trolling there with three posts that no one responds to? It's pretty obvious that no one really cares what you're saying. They've heard it all before--from Federal, elected officials (who may be surprised when the next election day has passed).
I don't think it is sound national policy to have individual states expressly attempting to cause mass migration within the country. The sooner the feds get a handle on this "race to the bottom" by the states, the better.
Folks like Dave 4197 completely ignore the principle of national sovereignty and see no difference between moving from Colorado to Utah than from moving from Mexico without a visa to Utah, and see this as a race problem. Also, Dave doesn't work at the bottom of the economic ladder where wages are being depressed, by over supply of cheap labor.
The taxpayers of Utah have the right to defend themselves, since the federal government won't, from the onslaught of cheap foreign labor, from the over six billion from countries poorer than Mexico. Amnesty is not the end, it is only the beginning of this problem.
The sooner we make the difficult decisions on this issue, the easier it will be. Delay only makes it worse. Most of the SB81 effect is delayed for a year and a half, giving everybody more than enough time to deal with it. Also, it is not nearly as strict as the Oklahoma bill.
No more sob stories, please. Go home and fix your own country and quit trying to mess up mine.
You are not a racist because you beleive in the law.
Lets no forget Mormons were here legally in a totally different era and the people at that time were not even dreaming of the problems we are facing today.
1) build the wall
2) use technology and counterfeit-resistant ID system to track people who come in on student, tourist, and other limited-time visas
3) create a way in which honest, hard-working people can immigrate without spending years in paperwork and/or thousand of dollars on legal help
4) institute a guest-worker program
5) aggressively deport criminals, welfare cheats and identity thieves
It's hard for me to build up a lot of rage against "criminals" whose only motive is family survival, when our do-nothing Federal Government continues to essentially lure people in with porous borders, lax identity control, and benefits galore.
Without these, Mexico and other countries south might actually have to make some real changes for their own people and stop using the USA economy as a relief valve.
The only way any illegal alien can get a job with a "reputable" employer such as Ivory Homes or McDonald�s is to present a fraudulent SSN and falsify the I-9 thereby committing at least two felonies and possibly a third if the SSN belongs to someone else.
The Utah Attorney General�s Office reported that it had uncovered a crime spree involving illegal aliens using SSNs belonging to children under 12. Workforce Services reported that 1,626 companies were paying salaries to the SSNs of children under 12. 37 adults were using one child's SSN. An estimated 20,000 to 50,000 Utah children are victims of SSN only identity theft. 90% of identity theft cases tried by the AG�s Office involve illegal aliens.
Our compassion should be directed to the children and other Utahns who are the victims of these criminal illegal aliens not to those committing the crimes no matter how noble their motives.
When denying someone the right to live here because of immigration rules, you are disregarding a greater law. The law of humanity. You are denying them the opportunity and fairness that your family had who immigrated here.
They are trying to better themselves. Why are you against this or wanting to put a halt to it
If the legislature does not act at this time to take concrete steps to solve this critical issue, these 'lawmakers' become enablers of lawlessness.
Pass SB81!
So who is going to work construction, hospitality and agriculture...white rich kids?...I don't think so!
I'm in a management position and some of my guys are here illegally, and I wouldn't change them for anything. They do a great job and they have a great work ethic, and by the way I pay them as much as I will pay anyone else who can get the job done. I wish there it was an apropiatte law to make them legal and I will do it right now.
This is just another crazy republican idea... lets send back all the hispanics and create an even worst economy problem than the one we already have at hand! And by the way is this happening in a LDS state were compassion should be our biggest thing sometimes I just feel ashamed of some of our church members!
Why do you assume we are against anyone trying to better themselves? And are you implying that people in other countries can't better themselves without sneaking into the U.S.? We are not against self-improvement... We ARE against people breaking the law to better themselves. That's why we have laws against bank robbery.
That's also why we have laws against people who make money by exploiting undocumented workers, which is at the root of this problem. We just don't enforce them.
Our immigration laws are not there to stop immigration. They are there to control it. Controlled immigration builds and strengthens this country, while protecting the health and well being of those who already live here, not to mention our culture, and our heritage. Uncontrolled immigration will bring this great country to its knees. What good can we do then?
Denying children the right to an education has already been dealt with by the Supreme Court. The earlier poster who wants to punish the children does not know the law, that schools cannot deny children of foreign nationals the right to education if they are here, and would be better off moving to a deserted island where his extreme views could be voted on and accepted by a population of one.
You know that Jesus was about compassion...don't you?
Just think about it the next time you feel like spouting off about the illegals. This land belonged to them at one time, and we took it. Prior to that it was the Utes and other native tribes.
Did you not learn the lesson of compassion and charity while supposing serving the people you now profess to hate?
If you're knowingly employing illegals, you should be prosecuted immediately.
You are the biggest part of this problem.
Why do we keep complaining about the Federal Government when the States can take action.
Thank heaven for these Utah legislators who want to get things under control. If we don't fix it now, it will be twice the problem in a few years.
Democrats should be ashamed of their ridiculous position of enabling illegals.
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