Last week, The Oklahoma House successfully passed HB 4156.
Dubbed the “Oklahoma GOP Is Grandstanding on Immigration Act,” it will create a new crime called “impermissible occupation,” and give our state’s anti-immigration law enforcement complex the power and opportunity to fulfill their most carnal authoritarian desires and freely arrest “undocumented” workers for simply being here “illegally.”
The law will likely be challenged in the courts, won’t put a dent in The Crisis At The Border™, and will likely boost Oklahoma’s already world-class incarceration rate, but it did give GOP politicians the opportunity to stump on the issue and show the racists voters in their ranks that they care.