Conservative states across the country-Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma-are taking border security matters into their own hands, proposing or passing legislation targeting illegal immigration.
The Oklahoma legislature just passed a bill designed to prohibit illegal immigrants from entering or living in the state.
HB 4156 states: "A person commits an impermissible occupation if the person is an alien and willfully and without permission enters and remains in the State of Oklahoma without having first obtained legal authorization to enter the United States." The bill passed the state House and Senate by wide margins and Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, is expected to sign it into law.
The legislature declared the issue a crisis in the state and stated in the bill: "Throughout the state, law enforcement comes into daily and increasingly frequent contact with foreign nationals who entered the country illegally or who remain here illegally."Often, these persons are involved with organized crime such as drug cartels, they have no regard for Oklahoma's laws or public safety, and they produce or are involved with fentanyl distribution, sex trafficking, and labor trafficking.
The law requires police to collect fingerprints, photographs, and biometric data, which will be cross-checked with Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation databases.
"The failure of the federal government to address this issue has turned every state into a border state," said bill sponsor state Rep. Charles Mr. McCall said in a statement.
We will not reward in Oklahoma, and we will protect our state borders.
Under the administration's catch-and-release policy, many have been released into the United States and have taken up residence all over the country.
Texas' law, Senate Bill 4, makes it a state crime to enter Texas outside legal ports of entry.
The new law, which goes into effect July 1, makes it a misdemeanor to be in the state or attempt to enter the state after being deported, denied admission to the United States, or if an individual has an outstanding deportation order.
As with the Texas law, it gives judges the discretion to drop the charges if the illegal immigrant agrees to return to the country from which he or she entered the United States.
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