Republican office-holders, business leaders and law enforcement officials from Arizona, Utah and Georgia made an appeal Thursday for practical and fair solutions to the problem of illegal immigration.

The call came on the eve of the first anniversary of the Utah Compact, which outlined a balanced approach to immigration and opened the door to the creation of a guest-worker program in the state.

The compact became a basis for discussion of viable solutions at a time when states such as Arizona were contemplating harsh anti-immigration laws, Utah’s GOP attorney general said in a telephone press conference organized by the National Immigration Forum.