Rep. Stephen Sandstrom unveiled his Arizona-style-only-tougher bill Monday to Gov. Gary Herbert (the rest of us will get to see it in about a week). Sandstrom says the governor likes his bill:

"He's generally supportive of having a tough enforcement provision and enforcing the rule of law throughout the state."

In obvious pandering to Utah's far right, Sandstrom's bill includes language that will echo a proposal by Sen. Dennis Stowell to encourage, protect and even require state workers to rat out suspected illegal aliens. It's, of course, a response to the firing and possible prosecution of two state data workers -- folk heroes to the far right -- who mined confidential records to release a list of purported illegals.

Says Stowell:

"We need to set up a process where the employees can go and feel safe. That they're not going to violate any laws."

Sandstrom explains the paranoid-snitch section of his law to ABC 4 News:

"If [state workers] suspect that somebody is fraudulently attempting to gain benefits here in our state, they have to turn over those names to law enforcement."

Sandstrom has also included what he calls the "Chief Burbank" clause that, according to ABC4, would require local law enforcement -- even Salt Lake's Police Chief Chris Burbank -- to enforce his law no matter how counter to the public's safety it is.

But at least one tea partier is not impressed by the Utah stabs at immigration reform, which she says have racist roots. Coordinator of the Cache County Independence Caucus Michelle King, photo left, says:

"It all started with the Chinese Exclusion Act which is excluding the Chinese from America because people in California didn't like them there. I feel like you're supporting laws that are based on bad principals. There's probably a better way."