Clergy to Utah Legislature: Let feds fix immigration

The Federal government has to fix immigration problems; when each state has different rules, nothing will ever work properly. - - Donna Poisl

BY PEGGY FLETCHER STACK
The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah religious leaders warned Monday that the Legislature’s proposed immigration bills — especially Rep. Stephen Sandstrom’s enforcement-only measure — would create a climate of fear that divides communities.

About a dozen faith leaders, led by the Rev. Steve Klemz, pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Salt Lake City, assembled on the Capitol grounds as the 2011 Legislature got under way.

The clerics acknowledged that the immigration system is broken, but argued it is the nation’s problem to fix, not the state’s.
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