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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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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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The two candidates at the top of the Illinois Republican ticket this fall spoke at an event Tuesday designed to pressure the states GOP congressional delegation to pass sweeping immigration changes, but both refused to give their outright support for the legislation thats already passed the U.S. Senate.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis said he is against a provision in the measure that would give a pathway to citizenship for adult immigrants already in the country illegally, saying it amounts to amnesty. Meanwhile, GOP governor candidate Bruce Rauner would not say if he backed the proposal, saying he hadnt studied it and arguing that its up to Congress and President Barack Obama to negotiate the details.

The comments came at an event hosted by the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition, a group of businesses interests from across the state that wants immigration reform. The organization particularly has sought out the support of the Republican Party, which is attempting to rebrand itself by reaching out to women and minority voters.

Indeed, Oberweis has sought to soften his stance on the issue. In 2004, Oberweis was strongly attacked after running TV ads during his second U.S. Senate bid that showed him flying over Soldier Field in a helicopter, contending enough illegal aliens cross the border and steal jobs to fill Soldier Field every single week. That figure was fiercely disputed, and Oberweis has since called the spot a mistake.

On Tuesday, Oberweis acknowledged that he has been perceived as a hawk on the issue of illegal immigration, saying he regrets the harsh tone of my rhetoric ten years ago. But he argued that his principles in favor of strong border control remain, and argued that adults who enter the United States illegally should not be given a shortened path to citizenship.

Rather, Oberweis said illegal immigrants already in the country should be offered non-immigrant visas to allow them to stay in the country and should be required to apply for citizenship like anybody else. Oberweis said he would support a path to citizenship for children who were brought to the country illegally by their parents.

I think its important that Democrats be willing to compromise, said Oberweis, of Sugar Grove, who is challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin in the Nov. 4 general election. I think Republicans certainly are willing to support the right kind of reforms.

The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate approved the immigration package last year. Under the measure, immigrants would be able to transition to legal permanent resident status in 10 years after a number of security features are put in place including drones and 20,000 new Border Patrol officers. To qualify, immigrants must also pay various fines and fees, learn English and pass background checks.

While Rauner would not speak to specifics of the federal legislation, he said he supports comprehensive reform that should include pathways to citizenship. Rauner, who is challenging Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, contended it must become easier to immigrate to the U.S. legally in order for people to come here legally and work hard and be part of the American dream.

A Quinn campaign spokeswoman contended that Rauner was pretending to support immigration reform, arguing that the Winnetka businessman has donated thousands of dollars to activists and politicians who are against immigration. Rauner said hes contributed money to many candidates, saying he doesnt think theres a politician existing anywhere who I agree with 100 percent.

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