Plus, is your baby’s identity safe? Utah lawmakers debate heightened E-Verify requirements to prevent child identity theft.
⛅ 23 – 43° Logan | ⛅ 35 – 50° Salt Lake ⛅ 27 – 54° Manti | ☀️ 39 – 66° Moab ☀️ 32 – 54° Cedar City | ☀️ 39 – 66° St. George 🌅 Good morning! Deseret News reporter Jason Swensen recently talked Super Bowl with the one and only lawmaker in the 119th U.S. Congress who has firsthand experience playing in it — Rep. Burgess Owens. A major highlight of his career was winning Super Bowl XV 45 years ago alongside Raiders’ defensive greats such as Lester Hayes, John Matuszak and Ted Hendricks. Read more about what Owens said about the Super Bowl and find out what political event he compared to the feeling of winning the Super Bowl. |
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| Is it a crime to be in the country illegally? We answer your questions |
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| When asked the last week of January how many of the3,500 migrants or immigrants arrested since Trump took office have criminal records, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “All of them, because they illegally broke our nation’s laws.” “I know the last administration didn’t see it that way, so it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that’s exactly what they are.” Prior legislators and White House administrations did make more distinctions. And so does the law, Jacob Hess reported. There are around 11 million to 14 million people living in the country illegally, and nearly 40% of those do have some current documentation and authorization to live or work legally in the United States, according to FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group. Of the seven different categories of people without legal status, two are “criminal” in a legal sense — with the remainder reflecting some kind of a status violation of immigration code. Read more about the seven categories. |
| Brigham Tomco writes: This legislative session, Rep. Neil Walter, R-St. George, has introduced a bill that would significantly tighten requirements for Utah businesses to verify the residency status of their workers. The bill, HB214, Employer Verification Amendments, was held by the House Business, Labor, and Commerce Standing Committee on Wednesday after extensive debate between committee members on both sides of the aisle. Here are three key points from the article: The Social Security numbers of at least 222 Utah children were being used for employment purposes in 2023. Nearly 8,000 Social Security numbers in Utah were being shared by three to 10 individuals in 2023. State Rep. Walter said his bill increasing E-Verify requirements would reduce child identity theft. Read more about the bill. More in Politics Public labor union bill back to a complete ban on collective bargaining (Deseret News)
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🗓️ Events Calendar We put together a calendar list of events and activities going on around the state of Utah during the next month. Check it out and let us know if we are missing anything! Here are some highlights for events in Utah today: Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock | Eccles Theater Jane Austen’s “Emma” - The Musical | Utah Theatre, Logan “Beauty and the Beast Jr.” | Draper Historic Theatre, Draper UVU men’s basketball vs. UT Arlington | 6 p.m. SUU women’s basketball vs. California Baptist University | 6:30 p.m. Utah Tech men’s basketball vs. Abilene Christian | 7 p.m. |
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