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A new strike force will focus on felony crime committed by undocumented immigrants, and Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is asking for victims of such crimes to come forward, regardless of their legal status.
"They're going to be out there aggressively investigating and prosecuting the serious felonies that are victimizing all the citizens of Utah, including, frankly, first and foremost, other members of the immigrant community, and that includes other undocumented aliens."
The strike force, which includes six full-time officers who will team up with local, state and federal officials, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents -- as long as they agree to deport only the major criminals and not undocumented immigrants who come forward as witnesses or victims, Shurtleff said.
While I agree we need to rid our country of violent illegal aliens; we also need to rid our country of ALL illegal aliens. This is simply part of their strategy to placate citizens of this country. If they were truly serious about enforcing our laws, they wouldn’t limit their focus. Most likely, illegals assisting in these investigations will be issued a U-Visa, and will be absolved of all prior crimes.
While I agree we need to rid our country of violent illegal aliens; we also need to rid our country of ALL illegal aliens. This is simply part of their strategy to placate citizens of this country. If they were truly serious about enforcing our laws, they wouldn’t limit their focus. Most likely, illegals assisting in these investigations will be issued a U-Visa, and will be absolved of all prior crimes.
Agreed. It's certainly OK to go after criminal illegals aggressively but any illegal that they come across, even if they haven't committed a violent crime, must be apprehended and kicked out. The new bill approved by the Arizona Senate would fit the bill here in Utah. The bill would expand Arizona's trespassing law to let local authorities arrest those who sneak into the country. It also would allow people to sue city officials who limit the full enforcement of federal immigration law. This Utah AG would get sued in a heartbeat.
Immigrants didn't flock here until the late 1990s as the state began preparing to host the 2002 Winter Olympics. Through much of the 1990s, non-agricultural jobs in Utah grew twice as fast as in the nation as a whole. A housing boom feeds the surge. Construction jobs grew 12.4% in 2005 and are expected to jump 15.3% this year.
About two-thirds of Utah's new immigrants came from abroad and the rest from other states, mainly California. The state's Hispanic population soared to about 270,000 in 2005, up 33.1% since 2000. Hispanics contributed about a quarter of the state's growth in the 1990s.
Utah has long had unusual demographics. It has the highest share of married households of any state, the youngest marrying age, the highest birth rate, the largest average household size and the youngest median age. The state is on its third post-World War II baby boom and is bracing for another one because of immigrants.
Hispanic fertility rates in Utah not only exceed those of non-Hispanic whites here but also those of Hispanics nationally and even of women in Mexico, says Perlich, the University of Utah demographer.
Many Utah immigrants are recent arrivals who come from rural Latin America where birth-control education is non-existent. They're now in a state where large families are the norm and birth control is not part of the public discussion.
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