Nationally recognized conservative thinker and politician Alan Keyes will be speaking this Wednesday, June 21st, at the Public Library Grand Ballroom in Provo, Utah from 6:30 to 9:00pm on the subject of immigration and border control.

Alan Keyes is an electrifying orator and an excellent thinker.

I’d like to post a few more thoughts on illegal immigration. I want to preface my thoughts with an excerpt from the science fiction novel Speaker for the Dead, by LDS author Orson Scott Card:

A great rabbi stands teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife’s adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death.

Of all of the articles I have read concerning illegal immigration, there are a few that I consider exceptional. As a delegate to the County Convention for Utah County, I wanted to post links to these articles. Hopefully they can help provide an amplified context and wider pool of facts for candidates and delegates as well as other citizens.

The most informative and comprehensive of the articles appeared in the website of City-Journal magazine in Winter of 2004:

Illegal Immigration was already a hot issue in this year’s election, and the recent protests by illegal immigrants nation wide have only acted as a billow on the already hot forge.

On April 2nd, a staff writer at the Denver Post named Michael Riley published an interesting article entitled Utah’s embrace: no documents, no problem. In it he says that despite being the most Republican state in the union, Utah “may be the closest thing these days to an immigrant paradise.” (You should go read it before it goes into the archives and ceases to be freely available)

To refresh your memory, in my previous post about my conversations with State Representative Jim Ferrin and his opponent Steve Sandstrom…