Unemployment Plummets After Crackdown On Illegals
Rep. Randy Terrill: “Oklahoma no longer OK for undo***ented aliens”
By Jerome R. Corsi
Unemployment rates are rising across the United States, except Oklahoma.
That state is experiencing the most dramatic reduction in unemployment
since 2007, an improvement many in Oklahoma attribute to the passage last
year by the state legislature of a strong employment-focused immigration
reform law.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday re****ted unemployment in
Oklahoma had fallen to 3.1 percent in March, down from 4 percent in March
last year, while unemployment nationwide was 5.1 percent, up from 4.4
percent in March last year.
“Oklahoma is no longer ‘OK’ for illegal aliens,” said State Rep. Randy
Terrill, who sponsored House Bill 1804 which passed by overwhelming
majorities last year in both the House (84-14) and Senate (41-6) of the
Oklahoma Legislature.
“The bottom line is illegal aliens will not come here if there are no jobs
waiting for them,” Terrill said. “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 are de****ted.”
House Bill 1804, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007,
has been characterized by USA Today as “arguably the nation’s toughest
state law targeting illegal immigration.”
The Oklahoma law imposes strict penalties on employers who knowingly hire
illegal aliens, makes it a felony to trans****t or shelter illegal
immigrants, forbids the state to issue drivers licenses or pay social
welfare benefits to illegal aliens or their families, and empowers state
and local police to enforce federal immigration laws.
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