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| Will Oklahoma Become a Third World Country? |
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| Commentary/Politics - Guest Commentaries | |||
| Wednesday, 16 January 2008 02:24 | |||
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"Is Oklahoma trying to become a Third World country?" "This is Channel 99 BlabberCast News at Nine with your trendy Dual News AnchorTalkers Mike Shallo and Cindy Ayrhead. For deep background on tonight's sensationalistic Sweeps Week lead story we go to our GroupScoop Reporting Team Deep Background Analyst Max Prober." "Mark and Candy, back in 2005 the Malaysian government was afraid that foreign workers were taking jobs away from Malays so they forced 380,000 mostly poor Indonesian immigrants to leave the country. But it turned out that Malaysian citizens refused to work any job that involved the D factor: dangerous, dirty, dusty, and difficult. The Malaysian economy ground to a halt, and a few months later the government was begging the Indonesians to come back. This was all documented at the time by the International Herald Tribune and The Independent of London." "C'mon, Mack, nobody reads those foreign newspapers. Besides, what does all this have to do with Oklahoma? Sandy?" "It's Cindy, Mick. And it seems that the Sooner State is following in the footsteps of that Third World Asian country. In 2007 Oklahoma passed some of the harshest immigration laws in the land. It's like they're trying to make illegal immigration illegal. It became a felony for anyone to transport or harbor an illegal immigrant. That means any bus or taxi driver, car-pooler, drivers of pickup trucks full of yard workers, teachers, doctors, landlords, and church pastors could go to jail for the felonies of transporting and harboring. And of course, employers can be penalized for hiring illegal workers. It's been estimated that 25,000 undocumented workers had fled the state by last October. Now here's our GroupScoop Reporting Team Financial Correspondent, Greg Kravits." "That's Financial Correspondent Grant Kreddit, Kathy, and I'm talking with Levy Revanu of the State Economics Board. Have these new laws had the desired effect on the state employment picture?" "Well, Craig, new housing starts are in the toilet, highway construction has ground to a halt, grocery and clothing stores that catered to immigrants are laying people off, dollar stores are closing, and tax revenues are down nearly 30 percent." "But state citizens are snapping up those jobs, right?" "Who do you think Oklahomans are - Indonesians? They won't work those D jobs." "This is GroupScoop Correspondent Buffy Sue Whiteface. I'm here at the Panhandle Palace Resort Hotel talking with the vacationing Hollidae family. Having fun, folks?" "Ain't no way! This whole huge place only got three cleaning women. We can't get new towels or soap or those little liquor bottles. We can't get our beds made up and the pool hasn't been cleaned in three weeks and - " " - and we went next door to the Georgia Cracker Barrel Restaurant to eat. The dinnerware wasn't washed good and half the tables weren't bussed." "We shouldn't have come here. Our libertarian friends back home in Iowa warned us about this but, you know, who ever listens to libertarians when they start spouting off about economics?" "Yeah, guess this is what those libertarians meant when they talked about these new immigration laws having ... what was it ... unintended consequences." "This is Roving GroupScoop Correspondent Cameron Closeup reporting from the Oklahoma Minutemen headquarters. The Oklahoma Minutemen have just announced that they're sending a contingent of volunteers down to the border area to help stop undocumented immigrants from gaining illegal entry into our land." "This is Mike Shallo back at the studio. So you're saying that the Oklahoma chapter of the national Minutemen Project will be patrolling the Rio Grande for Mexicans illegally entering the country?" "No no, Mork. They're going down to Oklahoma's southern border to stop Texas Bubbas from swimming across the Red River and taking jobs away from our good taxpaying Okies!" "And that's our report from Oklanesia."
More of Garry Reed's writing can be found at (http://www.freecannon.com).
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  written by TysonD, January 17, 2008
While I once again am put off by the ever-grumpy Mr. Reed's invented terms and oversimplification, this time I do agree with him.
It's very true - illegal immigrants are an integral part of our society! It's foolish to assume we can just ship them all out of the country without disastrous consequences for our economy. As much as I disagree with how illegal immigrants got here, I think it's simply not an option to say "get out". A successful alternative is to make legal immigration practical. There is a reason that some illegal immigrants risk their lives to cross the border instead of waiting around to go through all the paperwork. Everyone deserves a chance at an American lifestyle - I don't blame my ancestors for choosing to come here from Germany and Ireland. But if we want to stop seeing undocumented workers, we have to give them a real chance to get documentation! And how can we even pretend that our borders are safe against terrorists, when so many untrained, regular people - many without any real education - make it across just fine?
written by Cliff S, January 24, 2008
The article was funny (and I live in Oklahoma) but one-sided. While I'm sure finding cheap employment is harder I personally haven't noticed any more unbussed tables at my local Cracker Barrel than usual.
This also left out the statistics for unpaid medical bills, uninsured motorists in collisions and many other factors I would like to see before I decide whether or not kicking out all illegal immigrants is disastrous or beneficial.
written by Peter Warren, January 27, 2008
The term "illegal alien" is a political term. It would not even exist if not for the handiwork of politicians who determined that a person requires "proper" paperwork before he or she can cross over an imaginary line "border". I cannot even determine what year these "requirements" were established. What all of this really comes down to is racism. If the people travelling across the "border" were white, English-speaking humans, there would be no "illegal alien" issue.
written by Peter Warren, January 27, 2008
"This (article) also left out the statistics for unpaid medical bills, uninsured motorists in collisions and many other factors I would like to see before I decide whether or not not kicking out all illegal immigrants is disastrous or beneficial." So, Cliff, why do you care about statistics regarding unpaid medical bills? Oh, that's right, the hospitals are forced give service to anyone regardless of ability to pay because of a law that was passed and that causes the price of services to go up. To be fair, why don't we petition our lawmakers to pass a law making all products and services free if someone is unable or unwilling to pay for them.
written by Peter Warren, January 27, 2008
The politicians and their mouthpiece, the mainstream media, would have you believe that the people doing business as the U.S. government can legitimately use force to prevent people from crossing the "political line drawn in the sand" also known as the border. The only land that you can keep other people off of legitimately is your own property or land that someone else owns or rents that they have asked you to help defend. So called "public land" is owned by no one and therefore no one, including the people calling themselves the government, can legitimately stop anyone from using it.
written by Cooltruth, January 29, 2008
All employers have to do is hire Americans to work those jobs they've been hiring Mexicans to do. The crops will still get picked. The tables will still get bussed. The dishes will still get washed. Just hire any unemployed Americans who is interested in making some money by paying them a reasonable wage to get the job done. How hard can that be? I'm in Missouri & there are people here who could use a job. Same situation when I lived in North Carolina of under-employed people because of considerably more immigrants than jobs available. Employers pay them what Americans used to earn 30 years ago in a lot of cases. It's just another way to keep wages depressed for workers. I'm not sure what situation is like in Oklahoma but I don't think Employers will have much trouble filling available jobs with American workers who could use the income.
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