Comments about ‘Former U.S. attorney urges Utah to hold off on illegal immigration bills’

yeah, right.

How long have we been waiting for the feds to address it and what has THAT done for us?

States are addressing it because the feds won't.

Waiting...since 1965, when the 5,000 estimated new immigrants was actually 91,972 additional, followed by 184,448 in 1966...all due to family preference.
Something was terribly wrong with Ted Kennedy's estimates, yet Congress did nothing.
Now our 270,000 a year baseline is authorized at nearly 1 MILLION a year, NOT INCLUDING the illegal aliens who DOUBLE the de facto number.
How long shall we continue waiting, Mr. Tolman?

HAHAHAHA...I love it.

The Illegals are already packing it in.....

Ross Romero and Luz Robles are going to be out of a job.....the are fighting for their political lives!

I could be Illegal?

The Federal Government is derelict in their duty to protect our borders and are more concerned with losing votes that doing what the law demands that they do.

Why should we wait for them to get their politically correct act together and determine a course of action that has no teeth in it.

Are you really serious...the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH BAM BAM at the head are going to do something...what an oxymoron statement that is...

Ok all of you "get the funny talking brown people out of country", what do you propose would be the ideal way to handle the illegal immigration problem? And remember, you can't work around the U.S. Constitution.

Huge problems have been created by holding off on immigration enforcement. The amnesty Reagan gave them in 1986 was supposed to be the solution with enforcement to follow. Right. It got us millions more.

American citizens are tired of holding off on enforcement of our laws. We also want something done about theft done through border hopping and anchor babies.

Well, pikap, we could begin by enforcing existing laws against unlawful presence, document fraud, identity theft and tax evasion.
And we could put a strip of duct tape over the mouth of every politician who apologizes for them rather than defending the law.

The longer you hold it off, the more will come, the more jobs will go away to illegals, the more taxes we pay to care for those illegals and anchor babies, the more crime we get, more drugs into this state and well, lets say Arnold from California has moved into Utah. Move further east. Here they come. Don't be stupid.

Of course Archie Archuleta of LA RAZA (the race) wants immigration to be enforced at the federal level only, because the feds WILL CONTINUE TO DO NOTHING ABOUT IT WHATSOEVER. This will ensure that the mexican reconquista of aztlan will continue as our country becomes more like third world mexico. The question is, why does the Deseret News, in collusion with these politicians who support the Utah compact, continue to try and enable the open borders crowd?

No more illegal immigrants. If the federal government will take care of the problem, then states will stand down. Until then, states will have to do the jobs that the feds will not.

@Say No to BO- How do you know those existing immigration laws aren't being enforced? What evidence is there?

Well pikap, Chief Burbank has stated that he doesn't check immigration status of those in custody.
The testimony from law enforcement to the legislature is that they don't want to even check status when they arrest someone.
That ought to be a clue.
Now, I know that they have IAQ capabilities, but you've got to be adequately bad (generally, a violent felon) to even be on the radar screen.
That's got to change if we are going to get a handle on this problem. The odds of detection need to go way up.

This issue is so easy to resolve...as soon as the feds decide to actually enforce immigration laws, the states won't have to. Problem solved.

The one good thing about our immigration mess is that it is one of the few places where grassroots liberals and conservatives tend to find common cause. There are exceptions of course, by by and large, whether here or over on the trib, it is clear that most people want immigration enforced.

Big business on one hand and ivory tower elites on the other seem to want open borders and amnesty. Cowardly or calculating political bosses on both sides tend to agree. A few individuals join them most likely out of a misguided or misapplied sense of charity or compassion.

But whether democrat or republican, gun toting red neck or urban liberal, most of those of us who don't have the luxury of living in gated communities or hiring someone else to do our yard work join together in wanting to see this invasion ended.

Secure the border.

Deny all taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens including birthright citizenship to their children born here.

Punish employers who hire illegal aliens.

And ID & deport illegal aliens who come to the attention of the police.

No one denies this is a federal issue but the federal government has abdicated its responsibility by its inaction/incompetency and is endangering both the sovereignty of the United States and the individual states and their econcomic well being. It is the people of the United States not illegal invaders, nor progressives (communists), nor La Raza who will dictate what is constitutional. There is nothing unconstitutional to a state law that says if the fed won't enforce the law the state(s) will or that says if the fed won't provide for the defense of the states the states will.

Instead of spending your time arguing about immigration, why not vote to put people in Congress who will do something to resolve this. Our piddling efforts here will not stand up to constitutional view. Tell Congress to get to work, do it now, and quit being so namby, pamby about it. It needs being done and done now.

Illegals are here. Using all the social services paid for by Legal Citizens.
Why should we be forced to pay for these illegals needs with our tax money?

"This is a federal issue. Begin there," said Archie Archuleta, Utah La Raza chairman.

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Ah, C'mon, Archuleta. We all know that if the Federal government did their Constitutionally mandated, primary job of guarding the borders and enforcing immigration law, your t-shirt would say, "State's purview! State's purview! Stay out of Utah's business, Federal government!" instead of the snide, "I could be illegal."

Family unification (Chain migration) is a mathematical nightmare. Just imagine all the people you are related to at a family reunion. Then imagine that many of them are eligible to immigrate for no other reason than the fact that you have done so.
Mexico alone has 2 million people eligible waiting in line. They get tired of waiting and simply slip across the border.
When LBJ signed the act under the Statue of Liberty in 1965 he said, "The days of unlimited immigration are past." He was looking to pull people out of poverty, not import entry-level workers to compete against them.
Bottom line: Washington doesn't know what they are doing. And since the issue is now tied to identity politics, they will need a change of will to man up to the problem.