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Panel begins dissection of new immigration law

Here's yet another situation where our elected officials are pretending to care and pretending to fix a problem.

Vote them all out and the next will realize we're serious about wanting this problem solved.

It was very clear that Morse is very pro-illegal, expressing frustration that the American Public contacted their Representatives to prevent the great amnesty from passing last year.

Instead of using outdated or biased statistics, she should take a look at what is happening in Oklahoma:

Oklahoma�s unemployment rate, which was a seasonally adjusted 4.3% and 4.4%, respectively, in September and October 2007 (4.1% and 4.2% unadjusted), has fallen to a seasonally adjusted 3.1% in both February and March of this year (3.5% and 3.2% unadjusted).

The unemployment rate in most states has gone up from September 2007 to March 2008. In states where the rate has gone down, none has shown an improvement like that seen in the Sooner State � not even close.

Oklahoma passed their massive immigration enforcement law in 2007, which took affect in November, 2007.

I suspect that this panel is a way to justify the status quo, which favors business interests over the rank-and-file taxpayer. This panel will simply look for the numbers that best suit their pro-illegal immigration arguments.

I wonder if they'll look at crime rates for this population. Can anyone honestly suggest that they're on par with the general populace? What about gang violence, identity theft, machete fights and the chaining of girlfriends to engine blocks? Those (to relunctantly borrow a phrase from Al Gore) are inconvenient truths.

Setting that aside, the status quo unfairly favors Mexican and other Latin American immigrants over everyone else in the world. Are they more deserving than the Hmong, more skilled than Koreans, speak English better than Filipinos or have better family values than Vietnamese, or poorer than Haitians, or more imperiled than Iraqis?

If we truly need more immigrants for the prosperity of this country, we should be both fair and strategic. Starting from the premise that we can't afford to admit everyone who would come here, the question then becomes who & how many? Somehow, I don't think allowing the lowest skilled and least educated citizens of Mexico is a good start.

It will not be necessary for state/local law enforcement to go around arresting illegal aliens, just because they are illegal. Utah is a sanctuary state because we have policies that attract illegal aliens. We know SLC is a sanctuary city because we saw Chief Burbank testify to a House Committee against making more restrictive ID fraud laws.

Utah could solve much of the problem by removing the low hanging fruit (no pun intended) policies that attract illegal aliens. States can make employment laws such as the child labor laws and right to work laws. We need laws such as they have in AZ, and OK. GA has a law that prohibit employers of illegal aliens from deducting it from state income tax, as well has making it illegal for illegal aliens to work on public projects. Utah could also remove illegal aliens from Workman's Comp Insurance, and make the employer fully liable for injury on the job. Finally take away the Driver's Privilege Card. These are things Utah could do to solve the problem without arresting and deporting a single illegal alien.

The Driver's Privilege Card alone makes Utah a sanctuary state.

Are elected polticians are going to find out how dissatified we are come Nov!