Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Indiana's governor wrote a Washington Post op-ed calling for the federal government to allow states to sponsor immigrants to fill labor shortages.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has come out in support of a policy that recognizes immigrants' contributions to state economies and said he would allow states to better tap into those contributions.Tuesday calling on Congress to take action on immigration policy and arguing that states should be allowed to sponsor immigrants to supplement their workforces.
It's a solution that's already being used in Utah. In 2022 alone, Utah companies were approved for about 5,000 employment visas, Natalie El-Deiry, who oversees immigration and new American integration at the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity,"It's kind of a misconception that only certain types of industries are utilizing employment-based visas — like for farm workers or for agriculture. It really is across the board," El-Deiry said.
"Under such authority, similar to what employers and universities have already, each state could make its own decisions. They could sponsor no visas or many visas each year, up to a limit set by Congress, for the specific sorts of jobs they need to fill," the governors wrote. "Immigration sponsorship would give states a dynamic means to attract new residents, both from a pool of new applicants from abroad and from the ranks of current asylum seekers.
"Voices on one side call for an overly liberal national immigration policy that overlooks the toll on border states and encourages too many people to take dangerous journeys that can end in legal limbo. Meanwhile, voices on the other side call immigrants a burden, against all the evidence from economics and history," the op-ed states.Rules to determine who can come in and how, and who can stay.A review-and-repeat process to assure that the U.S.
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