Uchtdorf joined 13 other faith leaders in a meeting with Obama on Friday, where the president asked them to support a reform effort that would streamline the legal immigration system and create a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
He just said in this value process we need to stand together and make sure the United States is still a place where people can come and, once they come, feel not at fear. And do it, of course, in a lawful way," Uchtdorf told The Salt Lake Tribune in a brief interview as he left the White House. "He was talking about his principles and what he said was totally in line with our values."
Uchtdorf’s comments and his involvement in the meeting are the strongest indications yet that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is sympathetic to a reform effort that many Mormon politicians, including all of Utah’s members of Congress, have so far rejected. Utah’s two Senate and four House members have rejected efforts that they believe offer illegal immigrants amnesty. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/55974230-90/church-faith-immigrants-immigration.html.csp
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