Republicans are betting their control of the House on the issue of immigration, and no test case is being watched more closely than the party’s primary election here.
Five-term Rep. Chris Cannon says he opposes amnesty for the estimated 10 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the United States, but supports a “guest-worker” program that would allow them to stay in the country indefinitely. Challenger John Jacob, a local developer and political novice who forced the primary by defeating Mr. Cannon at the Republican convention last month, calls such proposals “amnesty” and says Mr. Cannon should be removed from office. “We need to stop up the borders now,” he said in a taped debate last week on the University of Utah’s public television station.
Stay tuned. This is an interesting one for a number of reasons.