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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Salt Lake City's Catholic bishop is calling for compassion when it comes to immigration reform.
Bishop John Wester says current immigration law is in need of a humanitarian retooling and a recognition of human dignity.
He said in a Sunday night talk that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has a six-point plan to reform immigration law. He says the plan seeks common ground between a country's right to regulate migration and individuals' right to migrate.
Bishop Wester says that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants and that by casting a group of people as criminals, people are denying their roots.
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