"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
11 November 2007After 1804Rep. Shane Jett (R-Tecumseh) was one of only a handful of Republican opponents to House Bill 1804, the state's attempt to curb illegal immigration — not because he's in favor of illegal immigration, exactly, but because he says he fears the economic consequences when a couple hundred thousand folks suddenly disappear into Texas or California or North Carolina. Jett says he's working on supplemental legislation to mitigate those consequences. What he wants, apparently, is a state-operated guest-worker program that will identify migrants and then earmark the taxes paid by them to cover the cost of state services to them. I'm not quite sure how this could be made to work in the context of HB 1804, which closes as many doors as the Legislature thought possible at the time, but it will be interesting to see what Jett comes up with next spring. (Jett abstained from the vote on 1804, which passed the House 88-9, perhaps out of conflict-of-interest concerns: his wife, Ana Carolina, is a Brazilian immigrant.) Posted at 6:31 AM to SoonerlandBut if she's legal, how's that a conflict? If she's not... well. WELL. Ahem. M Posted by: Mark Alger at 8:24 AM on 11 November 2007Well, he met her in Brazil, so I have to assume he knew the rules when he brought her back. More to the point, blurring the line between legal and illegal is a time-honored (as it were) tactic when it comes to the immigration debate. Posted by: CGHill at 9:28 AM on 11 November 2007Enforce our law to maintain our sovereignty, close the borders and only then will we begin to talk about migrant workers. We have 20+ million here threatening us with war on our own soil today and we will protect our own from this invasion. I excised several links included with this comment, simply because there were so many of them. — cgh |