Posted on 12/05/2011 7:08:16 PM PST by moonshinner_09
In an effort to stimulate Oklahoma’s economy and allow the state to be more competitive with out-of-state companies, Sen. Harry Coates filed the Oklahoma Guest Worker Program Act Monday. Senate Bill 995, which is similar to Utah efforts, would allow illegal immigrants to legally work in the state providing a boost to sales and tax revenues. The bill will stop workers from continuing to flee to surrounding states such as Texas as well as attract hundreds of workers back to jobs that are chronically unfilled in the state.
“Since the passage of House Bill 1804, we’ve seen a mass exodus of undocumented immigrants who have taken up residence in Texas and other surrounding states where they pump millions of dollars into those economies,” said Coates, R-Seminole. “House Bill 1804 did little more than put Oklahoma companies at a disadvantage by sending dedicated, knowledgeable workers to competing companies in other states. Losing that workforce has been devastating for many of Oklahoma’s industries including agriculture, energy and construction.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thestatecolumn.com ...
In order to be eligible, workers would have to agree to a criminal background check and not have a felony on their record. They would also have to provide a residential address as well as a phone number in order for officials to be able to keep in contact with them.
SB 995 would also establish an immediate family permit that would provide protection to the immigrant’s immediate family members including spouses and children. Each family member would be required to purchase a permit for $500.
This dude must be high, drunk or stoned.
Sounds like the farmers, ranchers, restaurant owners, construction companies and landscapers lost their slaves and want them to return post haste.
If 70% of illegals are on some type of welfare.... do you think the other 30% can pay enough taxes to support them?
RINO alert needed
like they will stay there.....get stopped along the way after killing someone and all you have to say is”I’m a guess worker who’s visiting friends in New York while working in Utah”
we’ve seen a mass exodus of undocumented immigrants who have taken up residence in Texas and other surrounding states where they pump millions of dollars into those economies,”
Low income people, legal or not, do not pay income taxes, so quit with the bull$!t about them boosting tax revenues. And quit with the bull$!t with them pouring millions of dollars into the economy. They are not cheap labor.
I’m guessing that Oklahoma has a string of longstanding guest worker provisions like the rest of the country. Sounds to me he’s just granting amnesty for a fee.
This guy seems to have a history.......
Senator Harry E. Coates - District 28
Occupation: Harry E. Coates, Inc., a construction consulting firm
Besides his role as a state Senator, Coates is also a construction consultant whose firm operates throughout the United States and the Caribbean. He has worked in the construction industry for more than 40 years.
http://www.oksenate.gov/Senators/biographies/coates_bio.html
Sen Harry Coates - It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc09FvezTGE
Construction companies that relied upon undocumented laborers are having trouble completing jobs. Thousands of undocumented children have been dropped from the state’s Medicaid program. And business is down sharply at the stores, groceries and restaurants that serve a Hispanic clientele.
Oklahoma asking, where have the immigrants gone?
February 14, 2008
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004181429_immigokla14.html?syndication=rss
Not to mention the money spent educating their children, policing their crimes, and providing them with medical care. I will have to contact my state legislators to put a stop to this bill.
It's a form of slavery. By now Oklahoma should have laws against slavery and should be building the gallows now to take this puke and his running dog lackeys out in front of the Capital building to let everybody know what they think about that sort of thing.
Be careful not to paint all employers with your broad brush. I do not hire ILLEGAL aliens but have to compete with bottom feeders who do. And I know I am not alone.
Not only will you have to pay for the worker, but their familias and anchor babies. OK should stop this bill now. Wish Texas had the same bills as OK.
Because everyone just knows that our economy simply cannot function without truckloads of illegal Mexican “coolies” suppressing wages and sucking up all forms of public assistance.
Yes, Lincoln’s attempt at stopping slave states from forming up is now going backwards. Slave states are back at favoring bully mentality and
pushing back non slave states.
Each family member would be required to purchase a permit for $500.
even illegals who work are a net negative to tax payers; their low salaries are subsidized by tax payers. nationally illegals cost hundred of billions NET.
This is almost a copy of the Bracero (workman) program which was legislated by Congress during WWII to provide a legal and supervised method for Mexican workers to enter the US and work.
It was pretty successful, even without computers to keep track of licensed workers. Pres. Kennedy and the Dems in Congress ended it to pay off the unions who didn’t want competing workers.
A new Bracero program would regularize workers who now come into the US illegally. Most want to maintain their Mexican citizenship and would probably follow the rules in order to pave the way to travel back and forth to visit their families as legal ‘guest workers.’
And just how many Bracero workers made illegal babies here in the states that instantly became “citizens” as anchor babies? How many received welfare food, medical care and financial support?
There’s nothing good about any of this crap!
I come from S. Texas and happen to know something about the Bracero program because I used to insure one of the labor contractors. The labor contractor was a businessman who ran a labor crew like a business, providing for insurance, transportation, housing out of their wages. It may sound like a ‘patron’ system, but it made sure they paid their way and weren’t dependent on local citizens or govcrnments.
Most of the illegals are single men, not families or men with wives.
Women also come over to take jobs however, principally as household help and in certain industries. There have always been anchor babies as Mexican women can simply come across the Border for shopping when about to deliver. The answer to the anchor baby problem is for a decent ruling out of the S.Ct on citizenship or a new Amendment.
If you regularize and suprevise a legal labor program you will be able to stop these folks from needing or obtaining welfare. Their labor contractors would provide them with health insurance out of their payrolls.
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