Former Draper Mormon leader deported

Draper • It looked like a life interrupted.

There were stacks of black trash bags on the porch next to a dining room table and chairs under the outdoor awning at this split-level home in Draper’s foothills.

On the table sat a pot partially filled with dried rice and tortilla chips. Roses in a vase rested on a windowsill.

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Mexico, 13 other nations say Utah illegal immigration law could strain diplomatic relations

The Utah bill and Arizona's SB1070 spurred "copycat" legislation in other states that, according to the brief, could result in a "dangerous patchwork" of inconsistent state immigration laws.
The Utah law requires police to verify the immigration status of people arrested for felonies and class A misdemeanors and those booked into jail on class B and class C misdemeanors. It also says officers may attempt to verify the status of someone detained for class B and class C misdemeanors.

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Pro-guest-worker group polls Republican delegates

Utah Republican state delegates were recently polled by a Washington, D.C.-based group seeking to defeat a resolution calling for repeal of a controversial guest-worker law at the state party’s convention next week.

American Principles in Action funded the poll, and its architect, Alfonso Aguilar, said his group has offered to make results available to any of the groups supporting HB116 — including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce.

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Immigration list suspects take plea deals, avoid jail

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The women believed responsible for creating and sending a list of supposed illegal immigrants appeared in court Monday to accept plea deals that will keep both of them out of jail.

Teresa Bassett, also known as London Grace Wellington was charged with two 3rd Degree Felony Computer Crime counts, and accepted a plea deal, as ABC 4 reported she would ten days ago.
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'The List' suspects strike plea deals

Two ex-Department of Workforce Services employees suspected of creating "The List" of 1,300 allegedly illegal immigrants have struck plea bargains with prosecutors.

Teresa Bassett (who recently changed her name to London Grace Wellington), pleaded in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court on Monday to a pair of third-degree felonies.

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Woman Linked To Utah Immigrant List Pleads Guilty

MIDVALE, Utah (AP) - A Utah woman accused of inappropriately accessing the personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants has pleaded guilty.

Leah Carson was charged with making a false statement by unemployment compensation agent, a misdemeanor. The 32-year-old was ordered Monday to serve probation for a year and pay a $440 fine

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¿Marchamos por la reforma? Ven el sábado 6 de marzo a Centro Civico Mexicano

SALT LAKE CITY — Two former state employees pleaded guilty Monday in connection with the controversial case known as "the List," where the personal information of 1,300 supposed illegal immigrants was released to law enforcement agencies and the public.

Both women received probation for their crimes — sentences at least one Hispanic community leader said are way too lenient.

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Probation for former Utah employees who made ‘the list’

Midvale • Latino advocates on Monday condemned a deal that allowed two former state workers accused of compiling and distributing a list of allegedly undocumented immigrants to be charged, enter pleas, and sentenced on Monday.

Neither Leah D. Carson, 39, or Teresa Bassett, 59, will go to jail.

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Sutherland Institute aims to resurrect failed illegal immigration reform bill

SALT LAKE CITY — A so-called "Utah solution" to illegal immigration has come under fire on several fronts. And now an organization that supported the guts of the plan wants to replace it with a measure the Utah Legislature dismissed with little consideration.

The Sutherland Institute on Thursday called Sen. Luz Robles' failed SB60 the "gold standard" of a state-based, comprehensive immigration policy. It proposes to replace controversial HB116 with the Salt Lake Democrat's bill, which stressed accountability.

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Hiring migrant workers a matter of survival for some Utah farms

PAYSON — McMullin Orchards puts out the "help wanted" sign each year for workers to prune its trees and harvest its fruit.

This past year, owner Robert McMullin had more takers than usual. "We actually had three or four or five applicants," said the third-generation farmer.

But, he said, none of them stuck. Some put in as little as two hours before deciding picking cherries or peaches in the hot summer sun wasn't for them.

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