Bridging the Unbridgeable Immigration Gap

Above: Blake Moore, US Congressman, Utah 1, Alta Club, Salt Lake City, UT. 24 October 2025.

Elephant Club monthly meeting.

Bishop question in the Q and A: Park City, where I live, has a population of 8000. 2000 are Hispanic and of those, 1000 are purported to have entered the US illegally. All of Park City's Hispanics, legal or not, are hard workers; all working two or three jobs... construction, hospitality, landscaping etc. Should 1000 Park City Hispanics be forcibly repatriated to their home countries, Park City would be thrust into a recession. Think about the same issue on a national scale. How do we reconcile the fact that large numbers of illegals are performing essential tasks in our Park City, and national, workforces, with the current announced policy that all illegal aliens are to be expelled from the country? What about introducing something like the guest worker programs used so successfully in the Emirates?

Moore: Check out the Dignity Act of 2025 introduced by Florida Congresswoman Maria Salazar. This initiative, or similar, does not have momentum in the current Congress, but it should. President Trump is the only person who can make something like this happen. His success on the border is a partial solution to the US immigration problem. I think that there is a good chance that something like The Dignity Act will be pushed home by Trump before the end of his term.

I was somewhat encouraged by Moore's answer. This is the first time I had heard of an initiative designed to bridge the seeming unbridgeable gap between some 20 million illegals being in the country and the impossibility of repatriating all of them in some realistic time frame.

Here is a link to the Dignity Act:


From Salazar's website... the functional equivalent of the Emirates guest worker program is underlined. Her other provisions also make sense.

Key provisions of the Dignity Act include:

  • Border Security: Fully funds modern border infrastructure and enforcement.
  • Mandatory E-Verify: Prevents illegal hiring and protects American jobs.
  • Asylum Reform: Ends catch-and-release, and ensures timely and credible outcomes.
  • Dreamer Protections: Grants legal status and a path to permanent residency.
  • The Dignity Program: A 7-year earned legal status program allowing undocumented immigrants to live and work legally, with renewable status based on good conduct and restitution.
  • Workforce Development: Expands training, apprenticeships, and education for American workers.
  • Legal Immigration Reform: Updates visa categories to align with 21st-century economic needs.

Salazar's Dignity Act 2025 is a start. We should get behind it as a potential solution to America's so far intractable immigration problem.


Above: Elephant Club Meeting. Alta Club. Salt Lake City, UT. 28 October 2025.
Koessler, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Bishop.