Oklahoma’s H.B. 1804 And The Clerics Trying To Subvert It

Memo From Mexico (About Oklahoma), By Allan Wall

One of the most encouraging recent developments on the patriotic immigration reform front: state, county and local governments cracking down on illegal immigration.

Somebody needs to.

The latest law—said by some to be the toughest yet—has just come into effect in my home state, Oklahoma. It’s the famous/infamous H.B. 1804, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizenship Protection Act of 2007, authored by state legislator Randy Terrill, who was interviewed on the Terry Anderson show on November 4th.

H.B. 1804 really cracks down on illegal aliens. It prohibits them from getting driver’s licenses or specific government benefits. It prohibits the sheltering and transport of illegal aliens.

It allows the local police to enforce immigration law. That doesn’t mean that Oklahoma police are going to be going door to door ferreting out illegals. But if a policeman, in the normal course of his duties, detains an individual for a felony or drunk driving, the lawman is authorized to check the detainee’s immigration status, and, if illegal, to contact immigration authorities.

Of course, this is still milder than Mexican immigration law. Here, policemen are absolutely required to enforce immigration law. But, in many ways, the U.S. still has a ways to go before it matches up to Mexico.

H.B. 1804 was already having an effect months before it came into force November 1st. Directly after the law’s passage, it scared thousands of illegal aliens, euphemistically called "Hispanics" in the Mainstream Media [MSM], into leaving Oklahoma—some for greener pastures in the U.S., some for Mexico.

This effect is confirmed by what I’ve also picked up on the grapevine here in Mexico.

A middle-class friend of ours said her middle class brother, an illegal alien in Oklahoma, was coming back to Mexico because of 1804.

Plus my Mexican sister-in-law in Oklahoma is legal, speaks English and isn’t committing crimes, so she’s not afraid of 1804. But an illegal alien acquaintance of hers said she was planning to move to another (U.S.) state because of it.

All before the law took effect.