ACLU meets to discuss immigrant rights
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The American Civil Liberties Union came to Logan but Logan didn't seem to care.
The group out of Salt Lake put on a forum titled "Freedom to Dream" at the Logan City Library on Thursday evening to talk about immigrant rights and SB 81, a state law that took effect July 1 and, among other things, forces the government and government contractors to verify the legal status of employees and for law enforcement officers to "make a reasonable effort" to determine the status of anyone arrested for a felony. Five people showed up.
The trip to Logan was the ACLU's first in the memory of Development Director Anna Brower. She said the group is trying to have more of a presence in Utah's smaller cities.
"It's communities like this where the stuff is going down," she said.
A Logan ACLU chapter got started in 1970 but fizzled in the early 1990s, said Thad Box, 80, who was a founding member of the local chapter four decades ago and attended Thursday with his wife Jennie, 73.
"It got to where someone thought you were crazy or some sort of socialist if you belonged to the ACLU," Box said.
Now there are about 150 members in Cache Valley, Brower said.
Jennie Box called the turnout disappointing but others were optimistic.
"There's only a handful of us but each one of us can pass the word," Rolando Murillo, a local Hispanic activist, told those attending.
Murillo said the passage of SB 81 has spurred fear of police among some Hispanics but has otherwise not created much consternation in Cache County.
Murillo, a member of the LDS Church and a Republican, said he hopes Latter-day Saints remember that their ancestors came to a foreign land seeking a better life.
"When Brigham Young came through Immigration Canyon and said 'This is the Place,' that place was Mexico. I hope Mormons can think about this."
Porter Lili, 22, works for the Migrant Education Program of the Logan and Cache County School Districts, as well as the Hispanic Family Literacy Center in Hyrum. Some illegal immigrants he works with live in fear of being found out.
"It's sad to see," he said. "It's something that shouldn't be."
Despite the light turnout Thursday, Brower said the ACLU will return to Logan.
"If anybody shows up, it's well worth it."
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