SALT LAKE CITY Utah civic and business leaders, DACA recipients and formerly undocumented immigrants called upon Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney to back bipartisan bills focused on immigration reform Wednesday, citing economic and moral imperatives.
Leaders at the event, held at the World Trade Center Utah, emphasized the important role immigrants have in Utah s economy. As Utah emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, like most of the nation, it s confronted with a severe labor shortage. The labor shortage is expected to persist as Utah s unemployment rate trends towards its pre-pandemic levels and nearly 95% of the DACA-eligible population in Utah is employed.