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Unemployment Plummets After Crackdown on Illegals
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62537 ^ | 4/25/2008 | Jerome R. Corsi

Posted on 04/27/2008 8:37:50 AM PDT by television is just wrong

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 reported unemployment in Oklahoma had fallen to 3.1 percent "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 deported." 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 transport 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. The group based the conclusions on a study done by economists Russell Evans and Kyle Dean of the Oklahoma-based Economic Impact Group that estimated as many as 70,000 illegal immigrants were living in "Will anyone in Old Media dig more deeply into the Sooner State's situation?" Blumer wondered. "Or will they try to pretend that Oklahoma's improvement doesn't exist, because finding out why might expose some inconvenient truths, and hurt the cause of illegal-immigrant 'amnesty.'"

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalimmigration; immigration
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To: blue-duncan; neutrino; nutmeg

How about OSHA? Did they learn of this?

( you can let me tell them...:) )


41 posted on 04/27/2008 2:57:52 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: RaceBannon; neutrino; nutmeg

“How about OSHA? Did they learn of this?”

There were no reports. All immigration needs to do is check the motels on the Berlin Turnpike.


42 posted on 04/27/2008 4:07:28 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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