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(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Salt Lake Dream Team members hold signs outside the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, demanding immigration reform. Gov. Gary Herbert, who recently returned from leading a trade mission with 41 Utah businesses to Mexico said increased trade and investment will help the economies of the United States and Mexico and will help solve immigration issues.

Trade mission Herbert says trip to Mexico helped expand opportunities for everyone.

While Gov. Gary Herbert repeated a call for federal immigration reform Thursday, he said a trade mission that he led to Mexico this month may help provide the best way to halt illegal immigration by improving that countrys economy.

"The best thing we could do, and the best thing that Mexico could do, for immigration reform would be to improve their economy," Herbert said during his monthly news conference on KUED-TV.

"We dont have a problem with Canada, the people to the north. Theyve got a good economy, and people have jobs and opportunity," he said. "Its only south of our border where we have problems with the disparity so great that people will take great risks to life and limb to come to this country."

So is Herbert advocating that Utah companies move some of their jobs to Mexico?

"Its a two-way street; its not one versus the other," he said. If Utah and Mexico sell goods to each other and invest in each other, he said, it will create more jobs for everyone "and be the proverbial win-win."

Some 41 Utah companies accompanied the governor earlier this month on the trade mission to Mexico, and some signed contracts while there for more business.

He said he also learned about some Mexican investment in Utah, such as how Grupo Bimbo of Mexico City operates a big bakery in Utah that produces such things as Sara Lee products and Grandma Sycamores bread.

That companys "banking interest now will be shifted to a local bank here in Utah," after the trade mission instead of banking outside the state, Herbert said. "So that will hire more people here in Utah from a company based in Mexico City, so it works both ways."

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(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Salt Lake Dream Team members hold signs outside the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, demanding immigration reform. Gov. Gary Herbert, who recently returned from leading a trade mission with 41 Utah businesses to Mexico said increased trade and investment will help the economies of the United States and Mexico and will help solve immigration issues.

Trade mission Herbert says trip to Mexico helped expand opportunities for everyone.

While Gov. Gary Herbert repeated a call for federal immigration reform Thursday, he said a trade mission that he led to Mexico this month may help provide the best way to halt illegal immigration by improving that countrys economy.

"The best thing we could do, and the best thing that Mexico could do, for immigration reform would be to improve their economy," Herbert said during his monthly news conference on KUED-TV.

"We dont have a problem with Canada, the people to the north. Theyve got a good economy, and people have jobs and opportunity," he said. "Its only south of our border where we have problems with the disparity so great that people will take great risks to life and limb to come to this country."

So is Herbert advocating that Utah companies move some of their jobs to Mexico?

"Its a two-way street; its not one versus the other," he said. If Utah and Mexico sell goods to each other and invest in each other, he said, it will create more jobs for everyone "and be the proverbial win-win."

Some 41 Utah companies accompanied the governor earlier this month on the trade mission to Mexico, and some signed contracts while there for more business.

He said he also learned about some Mexican investment in Utah, such as how Grupo Bimbo of Mexico City operates a big bakery in Utah that produces such things as Sara Lee products and Grandma Sycamores bread.

That companys "banking interest now will be shifted to a local bank here in Utah," after the trade mission instead of banking outside the state, Herbert said. "So that will hire more people here in Utah from a company based in Mexico City, so it works both ways."

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BY NATASHA KORECKI Political Reporter April 22, 2014 9:23PM

Republican candidate for U.S. Jim Oberweis addresses the audience Tuesday at the Chicago Club downtown. Illinois Republican leaders gathered to publicly support immigration reform and call it for a vote in the U.S. House. | Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times

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Before a standing-room-only crowd of immigration reform activists, Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Jim Oberweis on Tuesday offered a mea culpa for a track record of taking harsh stances on illegal immigrants.

Speaking at the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition alongside a Mount Rushmore of Illinois Republicans, Oberweis admitted he was known as a hawk on immigration reform but said he has evolved on the issue over the last decade.

Oberweis was among a slew of GOP political heavyweights attending the event aimed at urging Illinois U.S. House delegation to vote on a measure to reform immigration. Former Gov. Jim Edgar, former U.S. House Speaker Denny Hastert and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner also spoke at the event at the Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren.

However, neither Oberweis nor Rauner would embrace Senate-backed comprehensive legislation awaiting a response in the House. Republican House leaders similarly have shown no interest in backing the Senate plan, saying they would prefer a piecemeal approach that begins with reinforcing border security.

As he moves into the general election campaign against U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Chicago, Oberweis, a state senator from Sugar Grove, is trying to tackle head-on what may be his biggest weakness: a controversial TV ad Oberweis ran in 2004. The spot featured Oberweis in a helicopter hovering over Soldier Field, warning that there were enough illegal immigrants to fill that stadium.

Durbins campaign on Tuesday called the spot the most inflammatory and divisive campaign ads in Illinois history. Yet, Oberweis mere invitation to the reform event is evidence he is viewed as having moderated on the issue.

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