In Utah, you expect Republicans to be conservative. On the other hand, Utah did give us Jon Huntsman.
Now the Republican Attorney General of Utah, as well as some allegedly “Evangelical Christian” leaders have come out fawning over the new Obama amnesty and blasting the Tea Party.
From the Deseret News:
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff joined evangelical Christian leaders in applauding the Obama administration’s new deportation policy and blasting the tea party’s hard line on illegal immigration issues.
“Our resources are not best used in this country either nationally, on a statewide level or a local level to go after those who are otherwise law-abiding citizens,” Shurtleff said Tuesday during a National Immigration Forum telephonic news conference.
The Republican attorney general called the tea party’s approach to illegal immigration — round people up and ship them home — unrealistic, unworkable and damaging to the GOP.
“It pains me that the tea party has too much of a voice in turning people to the irrational and the shrill,” he said.
Shurtleff joined the Rev. Sam Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference, and Jenny Yang, advocacy and policy director for World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, for the panel discussion.
The Obama administration announced last week it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to remain in the country and apply for a work permit. Meantime, it directed immigration authorities to focus their efforts on deporting criminals who threaten public safety and national security.
Rodriguez called the policy shift an “American and, at the heart of the matter, a Christian decision” to protect the innocent, especially the young. “Anything that protects the innocent according to scripture truly reflects the heart of God,” he said.
Of course, I think I missed the part where the ACLU was complaining about the Separation of Church and State here.
Shurtleff is a RINO. The Tea Party opposes illegal immigration and believes that if you restrict jobs to lawful residents and citizens you won’t have to round up the illegals, they will simply leave. This is what has happened in parts of California as the economy in California has gotten so bad and the economy in Mexico has improved, many illegals have gone home.
We are a nation of laws, one of which is the law concerning immigration into this country.
Shurtleff should worry about his own problems.
As 2012 rolls around, I can’t think of a better race for the Tea Party to target in Utah than the Attorney General’s race.
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