Oklahoma Takes on Illegals
by Jeff Davis
In the absence of any serious federal attempt to control America’s borders or halt the massive flow of illegal Third World immigrants into the country, a number of brave local mayors and small towns across America have attempted to get a handle on the problem on a purely local level by passing city ordinances requiring local police and sheriff’s departments to enforce existing immigration laws, penalizing landlords who rent to illegals and penalizing employers who hire illegals. For the first time, the struggle to save what is left of our country from the illegal invasion has reached the state level. Oklahoma has decided to take on the problem that George W. Bush and his cabal of neocons refuse to stop.
According to the San Francisco Examiner “Legislation described as the nation’s most sweeping attempt to deny jobs and public benefits to illegal immigrants was sent to Gov. Brad Henry’s desk Tuesday. State lawmakers urged Henry to sign the measure into law after it was approved in a bipartisan 84-14 vote by the state House. The bill was approved 41-6 by the Senate last month. The people of Oklahoma are very strongly for this bill,’ said House Speaker Lance Cargill, R-Harrah.Immigrant groups said the bill is a wrong-headed approach to stop illegal immigration and urged Henry to veto it. ‘It’s not going to control immigration. It’s going to create a long-term sour view in the Latino community,’ said Ed Romo, vice president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. It’s targeting the Latinos, the Hispanics, and nobody else,’ said Ed Madrid, state director of LULAC… Pat Fennell, executive director of the Latino Community Development Agency in Oklahoma City, said the state does not have the authority to supersede federal immigration law. ‘It opens the door for all kinds of litigation,’ Fennell said. ‘We’re going to be paying the consequences of this… bill.’” (more…)