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Video: Mary on the Issues: Immigration

Editor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:33:33 +0000

Hot tip: MaryFallin

Ed Kelley Apologizes to Randy Terrill

C. W. McBlackville — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:45:50 +0000

Sort of… In one of the more bizarre admissions we’ve seen in some time, The Oklahoman editorial Thursday touting the results of a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, a pro-immigrant group, suggesting tougher enforcement of immigration laws is leading many illegals to leave the country voluntarily. It’s a tacit admission that paper [...]

Is Dirty Harry’s “Stolen” Documents Investigation Still Ongoing?

C. W. McBlackville — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:31:20 +0000

“Am I crazy, it is 10:30 and I have had lots of wine but I really like this argument!” Otie Ann Fried – Fried Kilpatrick Guinn Consulting The FBI looks like they’ve had a little too much wine, too! Oklahoma’s feeble chambers of commerce, who ironically have filed a frivolous lawsuit that would have the effect of [...]

Things that make you go "hmmm…"

Editor — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:03:00 +0000

Democrats in Oklahoma are decrying the growing disparity between the richest and the poorest families in the nation, and especially in Oklahoma. They are citing a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which reports that nationally, For very high-income families — the richest 5 percent — income growth since the late 1990s [...]

Vince Orza, on Immigrants "Without Papers"

Editor — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Vince Orza, the Dean of the Meinders School of Business at OCU, and who recently sold his restaurant business, Eateries, which, “operates and franchises about 60 Garfield’s Restaurant & Pub locations in nearly 20 states…[and Garcia’s Mexican Restaurants in Arizona and five other states and a Pepperoni Grill restaurant in Oklahoma,” talks to the Flashpoint [...]

Will HB 1804 Drive away "Foreign-Born Workers?"

Editor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:36:00 +0000

According to a study commissioned by the Oklahoma Bankers Association, Oklahoma’s immigration reform bill, HB 1804, could have the unintended consequence of driving away legal immigrants, which they are referring to as “foreign-born workers.” The study, as reported by The Oklahoman, indicated: Oklahoma’s tough anti-illegal immigration law could slash the state’s economic output by $1.8 billion in [...]

Mexican "Mobile Consul" Rolls through Tulsa this Week

Editor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:00 +0000

Andrés Chao, who is the consul at the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock, AR, extablished in 2007 at the invitation of Gov. Mike Huckabee. Tulsa, Oklahoma is in the official “jurisdiction” of this Mexican consulate, so Chao was in the city this week, “to meet with Mayor Kathy Taylor, Police Chief Ron Palmer, and other [...]

Federal Fine for hiring Illegals Increases by up to $5,000

Editor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:41:00 +0000

Devona Walker, of NewsOK.com is reporting today: The federal government has increased fines for hiring illegal immigrants by as much as $5,000, effective today, as part of an effort to ramp up worksite immigration enforcement, but some say the nominal increase isn’t likely to change how some companies do business. NewsOK is quoting Muzaffar Chisti, director of [...]

Tom Price Wants to Show Oklahomans "A Better Way"

Editor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:38:00 +0000

We said that after maps for millionaires passes, the anti 1804 forces (chambers of commerce) would spring to life, and they have. OKPNS also reported that the U.S. and State Chambers were suing to repeal HB 1804, Oklahoma’s immigration reform bill. Tom Price, of Chesapeake Energy, according to The Oklahoman, “is forming a nonprofit group called A [...]

Dan Boren Says OK Immigration Bill will be Irrelevant after November

Editor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:51:00 +0000

OKPNS recently observed that HB 1804, aimed at penalizing employers and landlords that hire and rent to illegal aliens isn’t quite having the anticipated effect, because it is not being enforced. Perhaps, as we suggested, it is because Oklahoma business owners have been intimidated by the threat of being sued at the Federal level for discrimination [...]