YEAH FOR OKLAHOMA !!!!
Well, it passed! Oklahoma is no longer OK for Illegal
Aliens........
It seems that at least one State has decided to take
matters into its
own hands, since the Federal Government keeps
dragging its feet on this
Illegal alien issue and even actively reverses
popular will on how to
handle it.
BRAVO OKLAHOMA ! (Too bad all politicians don't have
the 'guts' to do
this)
Every State needs to do this!!!!
Oklahoma 's Governor Brad Henry has signed a
sweeping immigration Reform
bill - House Bill 1804 - that its sponsor believes
will go a long way in
dealing with the illegal alien problem in the state.
House Bill 1804 was passed by overwhelming majorities
in both the House
a nd Sen ate of the Oklahoma Legislature. The
measure's sponsor, State
Representative Randy Terrill, says the bill has four
main topical areas:
It deals with identity theft; it terminates public
assistance benefits
to illegals; it empowers state and local police to
enforce federal
immigration laws; and it punishes employers who
knowingly hire illegal
aliens.
Oklahoma is no longer 'O.K.' for illegal aliens,
Terrill observes. 'When
you put everything together in context,' he contends,
'the bottom line
is illegal aliens will not come here if there are no
jobs waiting for
them, they will not stay here if there is no
government subsidy, and
they certainly won't stay here if they know that if
they ever encounter
our state and local law enforcement officers, they
will be physically
detained until they're deported. And that's exactly
what House Bill 1804
does.'
The Oklahoma legislator is pleased the bill he
sponsored into law was
signed by Governor Henry and believes it will go a
long way to curb the
illegal immigration problem in the state. 'I would
remind people that
states are separate sovereigns in our federal
system,' Terrill points
out. 'Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to go
back and take an
American federal government class in college,' he
says.
As a result of that sovereignty, the Oklahoma
lawmaker insists, 'We have
as much right - in fact, I would argue, a
responsibility - to protect
our tax payers against that sort of egregious waste,
fraud and abuse as
the federal government should have a responsibility
to protect that
international border, but doesn't do that.'
Terrill says as long as the federal government
refuses to do its job of
protecting the international borders of the United
States , states like
Oklahoma must take action to deal with the problem
that is costing
taxpayers in the state $200 billion a year in public
benefits, law
enforcement costs, and other resources |
