Amazingly, that's just what Utah is now proposing, after its Republican governor intervened to prevent the state legislature from passing its own version of an Arizona crackdown law. Momentum behind a copycat law in Utah was slowed after a federal district court judge ruled that the heart of Arizona's law, SB 1070, was likely "pre-empted" by federal law, and issued a temporary injunction blocking SB 1070's full implementation. But rather than dropping the matter, the state's governor decided to convene a roundtable of key stakeholders to come up with a better approach. Out of these discussions came the proposal for a state guest worker program that would effectively bypass, or at least run parallel to, current federal visa policy. The basic idea is that Mexican and Utah state officials would sit down to discuss their respective labor situations, and out of these discussions a system for regulating the importation of Mexicans into Utah would be established and administered more or less jointly by the two sides.
But rather than dropping the matter, the state's governor decided to convene a roundtable of key stakeholders to come up with a better approach. Out of these discussions came the proposal for a state guest worker program that would effectively bypass, or at least run parallel to, current federal visa policy.
The basic idea is that Mexican and Utah state officials would sit down to discuss their respective labor situations, and out of these discussions a system for regulating the importation of Mexicans into Utah would be established and administered more or less jointly by the two sides.
... a system for regulating the importation of Mexicans into Utah ...
Is it just me or does this sound strange? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
