As the issue on laws aimed at immigrants continues, Utah students also continue their protests as part of a week of rallies at several schools in Utah and across the nation.
In the Deseret News Article today, Utah Governor Huntsman states:
Thursday, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said there has to be some way for those undocumented workers to become citizens. He and other Western governors have proposed reform that that would give those “living in the shadows” a pathway toward citizenship.
“You can’t simply wish people away. I think that is unrealistic,” Huntsman said during the taping of his monthly press conference on KUED Channel 7. “When you say, ‘Let’s simply send people back to their home,’ well, where is their home?
But then Alex Segura, director of the anti-illegal immigration group Utah Minuteman Project and a West Valley candidate for the state House of Representatives,
acknowledged the students’ First Amendment rights. But he said protests across the country seem to be “intimidation tactics” aimed at keeping Congress from enforcing immigration laws.
“They’re misguided about what it means to be American,” Segura said. Of their Mexican flags and Spanish chants, he said, “It means they are proud of their country and feel that this is part of Mexico.”
Students don’t see it that way.
“It’s not fair. We come here to work, and they just want to kick us out,” Gallegos said. “We are the economy of the U.S.”
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 