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Show A2 Workers that would let the state hire labor firms in Mexico to find workers and help resolve Continued from Al procedural problems at U.S. The Arizona proposal aims consulates there. Neither measure has come to create a program run ento a vote before the full House tirely by the state. Employers could recruit workers through or Senate. Mexican consulates if they Immigration law experts can document a labor shortage said states don't have the foreign-policy and unsuccessful efforts to power to negotiate find local employees. agreements, but If approved, the measure Congress could grant them would admit an unlimited permission to do so. number of workers in a wide Democratic U.S. Rep. Silves-tr- e range of industries. Reyes of Texas, a former Driver hits two pedestrians in A.F. Jeremy Duda condition. Police withheld the victims' names pending HERAlD DAILY notifi- cation of relatives. Liddiard said police are investigating the accident pickup truck in American Fork and will determine whether on Friday afternoon, according charges will be filed against to police. the driver. The driver, who Liddiard said was turning on Around 1:37 p.m., a married couple was crossing Main a green light, was cooperating Street at Center Street when with police. a The driver stopped when old man in a pickup he hit the couple, and the male truck hit them while makvictim was pinned underneath ing a left turn, according to American Fork police Lt. Sam the pickup truck. Liddiard said Liddiard He said the two were James Sorensen, the owner of walking in the crosswalk on a John's Towing in American Fork, happened to drive by green light to walk. One pedestrian, a 53-- y ear old just after the accident, and was able to pull the vehicle off the man, was airlifted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in man with his tow truck. Provo in critical condition, Lid"It's pretty amazing that he diard said. His wife was taken was just right there. That's a by ambulance to American good Samaritan act," Liddiard said. Fork Hospital, also in critical A Texas man hit two pedestrians in a crosswalk with his guest-work- The Colorado proposal is intended to help chili, tomato Wheat historically trades at $3 to $7 a bushel. But this week, futures of which prospring wheat duces the flour used in hearth breads, rolls, croissants, bagels and pizza crust were close to $ 18 a bushel on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. They climbed as high as $24 in late February. Consumers pay an additional penny on wheat products for each dollar the increases. "It's a huge impact," said Steve Mercer, spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, an Continued from A 1 years because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy Cows. "It's going to affect ev- erything ... impact on every section of the grocery store," said Michael Bittel, senior vice president of King Arthur Flour ". Co. in Norwich, Vt. Consumers such as Maria Cardena feel trapped by the prices. She said the bread she buys has jumped from 69 cents a loaf to $1.09 in recent weeks. "You have to buy it," said the mother from Lubbock, Texas. "You can't go without it. Everything has gone up." The wheat market has been pushed higher by a combination of agricultural, financial and energy issues. Poor wheat harvests in Australia and parts of Europe and the U.S. have caused China and other Asian countries to buy up Obama Continued from Al which he had not been present. Obama told MSNBC that Wright had stepped down from his campaign's African American Religious Leadership Committee. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies," Obama said in his blog posting. "I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Reverend Wright that are at issue." In a sermon on the Sunday after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Wright suggested the United States brought on the attacks. "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." In a 2003 sermon, he said blacks should condemn the United States. "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strik-e law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America industry group. White bread cost an average of 85 cents a pound in 1998 and $1.03 in February 2006. The price rose to $ 1.32 a pound last month, according to federal data. And that's on top of overall food price increases of 4 percent last year and an additional 3.5 to 4.5 percent expected this year, according to federal data. Most years see 2.5 percent increases. During the past few months, the price of cereals and baked goods has risen nearly 6 percent over the same time last year, federal officials reported. Consumers can try to minimize costs by buying ' fewer wheat products, but the nation's bakers, pizzerias and indusother tries don't have that luxury. Panera Bread Company is paying more than double what it paid for wheat in 2007 an additional $26.5 million this year, according to its latest earnings report. At Kraft Foods Inc., producer of Ritz crackers and Chips Ahoy cookies, the cost of commodities including wheat were up 9 percent last year, or about $1.3 billion. Spokeswoman Lisa Gibbons called that unprecedented and said the company doesn't expect prices to ease anytime soon. more American crops, which are especially attractive because of the weak U.S. dollar. At the same time, the American crop is shrinking because of federal incentives to grow corn for ethanol. And sky- rocketing gas prices make it costlier to get any wheat to market. Those same pressures have also made it more expensive to supply feed grains for livestock. At Bob's Red Mill flour company, wheat flour has typically been subject to retail price adjustments every five years. Now those increases are hap- pening almost monthly. "You look at the price and you say, 'Oh, my gosh,"' said Dennis Gilliam, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the company in M Ore. "lt keeps climbing every day." . and watermelon farmers. It's aimed at eliminating bottlenecks that slow federal applications for immigrant laborers. As an incentive for workers to return to their homelands, Colorado fanners would be required to withhold 20 percent of workers' wages and send the money after the workers move home. The Arizona bill got unanimous approval last month from a legislative committee. A sponsor of the Colorado proposal said she may scale back the bill because of opposition, reducing it to a program 72-ye- ar Wheat Saturday, March 15. 2008 HERALD D A I L Y Border Patrol boss who supports revamping the nation's programs, said it's unlikely states would get the necessary permission to arrange their own foreign labor. He also said it's ironic that Arizona and Colorado are so guest-work- eager for cheap foreign labor because in recent years both states have cracked down on illegal immigratioa "I'd say to the states: 'You can't have it both ways,"' Reyes said. Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an advocate of expanding state and local immigration efforts, Konopnicki, a restaurant owner and an author of the bill, said the labor shortage in Arizona had been mounting for several years. It grew worse after passage of a new state law that punishes businesses for knowingly hiring il- said the proposals could never hold up in court. He said the Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot impose additional conditions on immigrants who are working legally in the United States. Aside from the legal barri- ers, state-ru- n guest worker . programs would probably face another hurdle: Businesses in other states that lean on Congress to sink the idea, because their rivals could pay lower wages and get a steadier sup-pl- y legal immigrants. That law has pressured many immigrants to leave. Francisco Chavez, the Arizona labor contractor, said the 2007 labor shortage in the lettuce fields was eased of labor. by shrinking demand for letThe Arizona bill is also tuce that prompted farmers to opposed by some immigrant-right- s plant less. But if demand rises, he said, labor contractors groups, which have won't have enough workers, backed immigration-reforefforts but fear the state plans and prices Could spike for consumers. would exploit immigrants. If field hands can't pick Hector Yturralde, president of Somos America, a coalition enough produce, Chavez said, of immigrant advocacy groups shoppers "won't be able to have a salad, because there is that has staged protests in no way to get it into the marPhoenix, likened the Arizona ket." proposal to the "bracero" proMexican in that brought gram On the Net: farm laborers during World Arizona Legislature: www. War II. It ended in 1964 amid azleg.gov allegations of worker abuse. I Colorado Legislature: "It's indentured labor," Yturralde said, referring to www.leg.state.co.us I U.S. Department of Labor: the Arizona proposal. www.dol.gov Republican state Rep. Bill for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn AmerT ica for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." He also gave a sermon in -- m College Continued from Al December comparing Obama to Jesus, promoting his candidacy and criticizing his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright told a cheering congregation. "Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger." Obama told MSNBC that he would not repudiate Wright as a man, describing him as "like an uncle" who says something that he disagrees with and must speak out against. He also said he expects his political opponents will use video of the sermons to attack him as the campaign goes on. Questions about Obama's religious beliefs have dogged him throughout his candidacy. He's had to fight against false Internet rumors suggesting he's really a Muslim intent on ' destroying the United States, and now his pastor's words uttered nearly seven years ago have become an issue. n Obama wrote on the Post that he never heard Wright say any of the statements, but he acknowledged that they have raised legitimate questions about the nature of his relationship with the pastor and the church. He wrote that he joined Wright's church nearly 20 years ago, familiar with the pastor's background as a former Marine and respected biblical scholar who lectured at seminaries Huff-ingto- across the country. Office of Education, the number of students enrolled in Utah's public schools will keep on growing with little sign of letting up. In fact, the percent change, the ratio by which the enrollment is growing, is projected to increase until at least 2012, growing at a rate of nearly 3 percent per year. Nothing is projected to decline. "We actually have more . "The issue for us is how to deal with what we know is coming," Martin said. Space is already an issue at the Orem campus; departments are clamoring for office space in the library. : the career center counselor at Timpview High School in "Space is such a commodity right now," Martin said. In order to meet demand and keep its commitment to open enrollment, Martin said the school will have to do two things build more space and use the space it already has effectively. The school has been banking property adjacent to campus and working on plans for satellite campuses. However, the existing Uni- Provo. versity ParkwayInterstate juniors than seniors this year, and we have more sophomores," said Colette Davis, Amanda Covington, the spokeswoman for the Utah System of Higher Education, said the state has been flat for the last couple of years in the demographic of 18-- to but the state is expecting a jump over the next decade. Cameron Martin, UVSC's assistant to the president for development and planning, said the school is expecting two spikes in enrollment, in 2013 and 2017. That will bring the student body, currently about 23,000 students, to more than 30,000. The 15 interchange will not be able to handle a 10,000 student increase. "If you add 10,000 students the interchange shuts down. It just becomes a parking lot," Martin said. In order to ease conges- tion, Martin said the college is talking with UDOT about possible solutions. They are also looking at ways to offer more online classes and night and weekend classes. 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