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Summit County Council member Dave Ure wants the Council to pass a resolution calling on the U.S. Congress to pass an immigration reform bill. Ure says many in Summit County, including business owners and undocumented immigrants, believe action must be taken. (Park Record file photo)

With immigration reform still being held up in the U.S. House of Representatives, Summit County Council member Dave Ure wants to send a message that something must be done on the issue on the federal level. Ure has helped to draft a County Council resolution supporting immigration reform and declaring June "Immigrant Heritage Month."

To view the resolution, click here.

"It's basically saying, 'Congress, get in gear and do something for us,'" Ure said. "There's a strong national push to try to get Congress to do something that's why we're doing it, to try to show a strong coalition from everybody."

Immigration reform is an issue that Ure said he has been passionate about for the last 10 to 12 years, especially during his time as the 53rd District representative in the Utah State Legislature. He said he has heard from many business owners in the county, as well as undocumented immigrants, that reform is sorely needed.

Congress and the president are currently deadlocked over immigration reform legislation.

Obama says there is bipartisan support for immigration reform but House Speaker John Boehner maintains that Congress would not accept the comprehensive bill passed by the Democratically-controlled Senate last year, Reuters reported.

Ure said he has heard mainly from business owners in the restaurant, agricultural and ski industry about the importance of addressing immigration. He said businesses like those are having a difficult time recruiting immigrants, who fear they will be deported.

"Many of those people are still in the community and are very active, and even though they're not citizens, they've lived here most of their lives and have to live in the shadows 99 percent of the time," Ure said.

Creating an easier, more streamlined way for immigrants to obtain a green card or permanent residency should be a crucial part of immigration reform, Ure said. That way, more undocumented immigrants can work in the United States and pay taxes, hospital bills and educational expenses.

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Speaker John Boehners (R-Ohio) office on Friday moved to tamp down speculation that GOP leaders are preparing to act on immigration reform.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Boehner last month told donors at a Las Vegas fundraiser that he was "hellbent on getting this done this year, referring to immigration legislation.

But a spokesman for the Speaker said the quote does not reflect any change in position.

"Nothing has changed. As he's said many times, the Speaker believes step-by-step reform is important, but it won't happen until the president builds trust and demonstrates a commitment to the rule of law, Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said.

The spokesman said he could neither confirm nor deny Boehner had made the hellbent comment.

House Republicans have long favored passing border security and enforcement bills in an incremental approach to immigration reform and have rejected a conference committee to consider the comprehensive bill passed by the Senate last year. While some of the piecemeal bills have moved out of committee, they have yet to see a floor vote.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a top opponent of the Senate-passed bill, decried the reported Boehner comments and urged his party not to move forward on House companion bills. "At a time when trust in the President is at record lows, Republicans should not sacrifice their own credibility with such a maneuver. Such action would represent a colossal breach of the public trust: saying one thing before the primaries and then doing another thing after," Sessions said.

House leaders at their annual retreat this year released draft principles for immigration reform that included options for giving legal status to some illegal immigrants, but the majority of the GOP conference argued in favor of holding off on tackling the issue, according to lawmakers.

On Feb. 25, Boehner met with Obama to discuss immigration, and since then has consistently said that his members do not want to move forward because they do not trust Obama to abide by stricter enforcement mechanisms in any reform law.

Every time the president ignores the law, like the 38 times he has on ObamaCare, our members look up and go, 'Wait a minute: You can't have immigration reform without strong border security and internal enforcement. How can we trust the President to actually obey the law and enforce the law that we would write?' Boehner said.

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