UTAH’S IMMIGRATION BILLS – A BLAST FROM THE PAST

In an article in In These Times, David Bacon critiques three new Utah immigration laws that have been hailed as a new, more reasonable, approach to immigration policy. “Reasonable, that is, compared to Arizona’s SB1070, which would allow police to stop anyone, demand immigration papers, and hold her or him for deportation.”    According to Bacon, “The Utah laws . . .  are not new. And they’re certainly not liberal, at least towards immigrants and workers. Labor supply programs for employers, with deportations and diminished rights for immigrants, have marked U.S. immigration policy for more than a hundred years.”

KJ