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Utah Has Suspects for Immigration List

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State employees believed to have leaked 1,300 names.

Maybe they should seek amnesty in Arizona? The state of Utah has identified two state workers who are suspected of distributing a list with the names of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants. The first suspect is Leah Carson, who was fired from the Department of Workforce Services last week. The other, Teresa Bassett, is also a Workforce Services employee who is in the process of being fired. The list that Carson and Bassett are suspected of compiling and distributing to media outlets and law-enforcement officials included Social Security numbers, birth dates, workplaces, address, and phone numbers of the purported illegal immigrants, in addition to the names of children and the due dates of pregnant women.

Read it at Associated Press