Monday, April 11, 2011

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Legislative Update

FOR THE WEEK OF April 11, 2011 

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Utah AG Says U.S. Justice Department Won't Sue Utah

email imageUtah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff continued to stir controversy last week when he announced the federal government would not sue the State to challenge the constitutionality of its new immigration laws. Shurtleff made the comments during an interview with a local Fox News affiliate in Salt Lake City. He told reporters: “I think I’ve convinced them [the U.S. Department of Justice] not to sue. They specifically asked, ‘Are you saying you don’t want us to sue you on this?’ And I said, ‘Yes, that’s exactly what I’m asking. We don’t want to be in litigation right now.’” Most immigration experts agree that two of Utah’s new immigration laws, a guest worker amnesty measure (H.B. 116) and a law allowing the sponsoring of immigrants outside the federal system (H.B.469), would likely be found unconstitutional if challenged in court. Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed both into law March 15th.

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Sheriff Paul Babeu Gives First-Hand Account of Border Violence

email imageLate last week, the Senate Homeland Security Committee met to hear testimony from law enforcement officials from southwest border towns. The hearing, entitled “Securing the Border: Progress at the Local Level” is the second in the committee’s series to determine how to best improve security at the border.

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House Immigration Subcommittee Considers Eliminating Visa Lottery

email imageThe House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement held a hearing last week on a bill that would eliminate the controversial visa lottery program. H.R. 704—the “Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2011” (SAFE Act)—eliminates the 55,000 “diversity” visas by striking Sections 201(a)(3) and 201(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Vitter Introduces Second Bill to Limit Birthright Citizenship

email imageEarly last week Senator David Vitter (R-LA) introduced a second bill, S. 723, to clarify the eligibility of birthright citizenship. In contrast to the Senator’s first birthright citizenship bill which sought to amend the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, this bill seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the granting of birthright citizenship to children of citizens, legal permanent residents or aliens serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) joined Senator Vitter as co-sponsors of the bill.

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FAIR’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire Reaches Millions of Americans

email imageFor two days last week, nearly 50 radio hosts from across the nation gathered in Washington, D.C. to participate in FAIR’s “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” radio row event. Each year for the past five years, this gathering of radio hosts in an “electronic town hall meeting” has provided a platform for hosts and guests to debate immigration policy and given listeners across the country an opportunity to express their views.

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