Republicans Rip Legislators, Herbert on Guest-Worker

Salt Lake Tribune reports that: The senator stayed after the meeting until 11 p.m. to discuss the issue and said it seemed to allay the "angst" of members. "I know that the general population in my Senate district wanted a comprehensive approach," Niederhauser said. "If you're going to take a polarized view . we'll never have a solution to immigration. People are going to have to come together or there is no solution, and no solution is de facto amnesty." In addition to the guest-worker bill, lawmakers passed and the governor signed bills to allow local police to check legal status of people detained for felonies or serious misdemeanors; to allow Utah residents to personally sponsor immigrants; and to enter Utah into a partnership with the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon to obtain federal visas for workers to come to the Beehive State.