We have a winner

[pecunium]

As predicted, Utuh concludes state resources were used to compile list of immigrants, though the report still gives credit to a, "group" of anti-immigration activists.

Utah officials said Thursday they had uncovered evidence that someone used a state employment database to help anti-immigration activists compile a list purporting to identify 1,300 illegal immigrants.

I'll wager it was one, or two, people who work for the state.

Tony Yapias, director of the nonprofit immigrant activist group Proyecto Latino de Utah and former director of the Utah Office of Hispanic Affairs, said in an interview... woman claiming to be a state worker called him June 30 to complain that illegal immigrants were wasting state money.

Yapias said the caller, who said she was Latina and was part of a group of state workers who were angered by illegal immigration, cited specific statistics about state expenditures on pre- and post-natal care for illegal immigrants — the sort of information the Workforce Services Department said was in its database.

“Then, two weeks later, we get this list,” he told KSL.

That, I suspect, it pretty much all of it. Someone who wanted to make a stink, and make it seem there was a large groundswell of support for the position they were taking.

Now it's just a question of rooting them out.

Comments

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, they've got access logs. And hopefully the people who did this didn't have the ability to alter or delete the logs.

[sylphslider.livejournal.com]

It particularly pains and frustrates me when people make a stink about pre and post-natal care and immunizations for children. Really, I'd like to torment those people in painful ways.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The mention of due dates isn't about the natal care, it's a dog-whistle for, "anchor babies".

[sylphslider.livejournal.com]

I know. But it's also a problem with pre and post natal care. Those poor people don't get any because they're afraid of being deported, and that's criminal, in my book.

[mycroftw.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw the words "due dates" and "deport them now", even I heard that dog-whistle.

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

This, BTW, wouldn't be covered by HIPAA. Should be covered by state laws, though.