The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Huddling the masses
This doesn't sound like a good idea. Legislative leaders want to buy an empty county jail and turn it into a gulag, er — detention center for illegal immigrants until the feds gather them for deportation.

House Speaker Greg Curtis has discussed the idea of buying Salt Lake's Oxbow jail with the governor and Senate President John Valentine.


Says Curtis:
"I don't want to go out there and start arresting illegal immigrants. If we have illegal immigrants who are breaking the law, we have a duty to the citizens of the state to arrest them and detain them."

So far, Salt Lake County's sheriff has blown off the idea, but the Speaker, a soccer fan, is not the kind of guy who takes no for an answer.

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