SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says he had to set the record straight. Shurtleff received several Twitter messages asking why his office is not taking down illegal immigrants who steal Social Security cards. He responded with a tweet of his own, saying: \"I have prosecuted hundreds of illegal aliens stealing SSNs and using them to buy homes.\" The attorney general says he felt like he had to get the facts out.

SALT LAKE CITY - A 15-year state employee is at the center of a criminal investigation into the creation of \"The List,\" a document of 1,300 names of allegedly illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the head of the Department of Workforce Services revealed new details about the investigation to Fox 13.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A computer specialist for a state agency has come under suspicion in the distribution of a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants. A person familiar with the case identified the worker Thursday as Teresa Basset, who works in the Utah Department of Workforce Services. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to release details about the investigation.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Teresa Bassett says she\'s innocent. That\'s the word from her new criminal attorney. Bassett, according to several sources, is one of the state workers suspected of creating \"The List\" of 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants.

SALT LAKE CITY — By a single vote, members of the Utah Minuteman Project chose on Thursday not to expel their founder, Alex Segura, for his appearance last week with Hispanic activist Tony Yapias at a press event calling for calm in the immigration debate. But members did yell, cuss and point fingers at Segura for two hours. They made abundantly clear they were furious at his actions.

SALT LAKE CITY — As a criminal investigation began Wednesday into those responsible for releasing a list of 1,300 Utahns allegedly in the country illegally, new details emerged about how the list was compiled. The list was the work of two employees of the state Department of Workforce Services who breached a database to gather personal information, including addresses and private health data. On Wednesday, Kristen Cox, the department\'s executive director, told the Deseret News that about 200 of the names on the list did not come from the state database. Instead, Cox said, the names were \"made up\" by the two department workers or came from other means.

SALT LAKE CITY — A computer specialist in the Utah Department of Workforce Services is under investigation in the compiling and distributing of a list of 1,300 Utahns purported to be in the country illegally. Teresa Bassett, 58, is one of two state employees whom authorities have focused on, a government source confirmed.

For those who are exercised for \"illegal immigration,\" this passion and conviction are not principle — not even a good imitation of principle. The principles here are \"illegal\" and \"the rule of law.\" Webster defines \"illegal\" as prohibited by law, against the law, unlawful, not authorized or sanctioned — and the rule of law is the Constitution.

I’ve had it with comparing issues concerning illegal immigration to the Holocaust. Such comparisons to that barbarous event that took innocent citizens from their own countries to annihilate them and their culture are sacrilege. To compare the political maneuvering of the compilers of the list of illegal aliens in Utah to the Nazis is ridiculous.

There are three federal investigations I have conducted in my 34-year legal career. Probably the most memorable were of the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State universities in May of 1970. I recall those investigations because of the secret leaking of 1,300 names of purported illegal aliens by two workers from the Utah Department of Workforce Services.

After an emotional debate that focused much on a list of alleged undocumented immigrants and whether its creators should be commended, the Utah Minuteman Project voted Thursday to keep one of its co-founders. Alex Segura survived by an 8-7 vote. After the tally, he shook hands with Eli Cawley, the Minutemen’s chairman who first raised the idea to “disfellowship” Segura. Then Segura proposed scheduling a barbecue where members can discuss how to advance their agenda and invite more people to join.

I became an English tutor by accident. A few months out of college and feeling lonely and bored in a new town 3,000 miles from my family and friends, I volunteered to teach illiterate adults to read. It was something to do, somewhere to go other than my moldy attic apartment after work in a windowless office in Aberdeen, Wash., a foggy mill town of 16,000 people best known as the hometown Kurt Cobain slammed in his songs.

MIAMI - Hispanics are eager to blend into American society while still maintaining their cultural identity, a paradox that reflects the complex beliefs of the nation\'s fastest-growing minority. Yet there are limits to assimilation - most don\'t expect the United States to elect a Latino president in the next 20 years

The fate of Arizona\'s tough new immigration law now sits in the hands of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. Bolton held hearings Thursday on two of the highest-profile legal challenges to Senate Bill 1070, making attorneys on both sides of the aisle sweat as she challenged their legal arguments and forced them to focus on specific portions of the law.

OGDEN -- Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday he is cracking down hard on the idea that state employees can compile and issue public lists of people who they think are undocumented immigrants illegally getting state services. He also stressed that none of the people on the list of 1,300 such names that was released two weeks ago were actually getting anything illegally.

SALT LAKE CITY — A Hispanic advocacy group gathered on the steps of the State Capitol Wednesday to encourage Latinos to vote in the upcoming elections. \"It is the right to vote that allows us to determine to a certain degree our own future by electing officials who reflect our views and will speak for us in government,\" said Sabrina Morales, the executive director of the group, Communities United. \"By not voting we are abdicating our right to influence government and allowing the will of others, whose opinions may be contrary to our own to prevail.\"