Topic: Immigration

Denying immigrants access to the safety net would have terrible consequences for us all

By: Courtney Cullison
June 5, 2018 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Most Americans agree that it’s important to have a social safety net.  Bad luck and hard times can hit any of us, and when that happens there should be something there to keep us from falling into destitution while we… Read more [More...]

Congress must pass the Dream Act to protect young Oklahomans and our economy

By: Ryan Gentzler
September 7, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Visit the Dream Act Toolkit website and urge your legislators to pass the Dream Act. President Trump recently announced his plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by the start of next March. DACA, created by executive… Read more [More...]

What this panhandle county tells us about the future of Oklahoma

By: Chan Aaron
July 6, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Chan Aaron is an OK Policy summer intern. He is pursuing an environmental policy degree at The University of Tulsa. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in philosophy and a veteran of the United… Read more [More...]

Don’t ban bilingual education (Guest post: Shannon Guss and Ryan Gentzler)

By: Ryan Gentzler
March 31, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Shannon Guss is the Educare Project Director at the Early Childhood Education Institute (ECEI) at the University of Oklahoma  – Tulsa. Ryan Gentzler is a Research Associate at ECEI and an OK Policy Research Fellow. With two bills from 2011… Read more [More...]

Sleeping dogs of the 2015 session

By: David Blatt
February 18, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The 2015 session is now underway and it’s clear that this year, as always, will feature heated debates on a multitude of contentious issues, from proposals to expand school choice through vouchers and charter schools to efforts to rein in… Read more [More...]

What President Obama’s immigration order means for Oklahoma

By: Nikki Hager
February 12, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post is by OK Policy intern Nikki Hager. She is a senior Political Science and Economics major at the University of Tulsa. In November, President Obama issued an executive order to grant deportation relief to approximately half of the… Read more [More...]

The kids are out of Fort Sill. Now what?

By: Carly Putnam
September 9, 2014 // Updated: June 13, 2019
NOTE: This article was published in 2014 when Ft. Sill was first used to detain migrant children and has not been updated to reflect the detention of migrant children at Ft. Sill in 2019. At the end of July, we… Read more [More...]

[Summer Rerun] Read This: “Kind of Kin”

By: Carly Putnam
August 20, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post, authored by then-intern Carly Putnam, first ran on our blog on July 25, 2013. It has been updated. It’s rare to find a novel set in Oklahoma; it’s rarer still to find a novel set in Oklahoma that… Read more [More...]

Debunking myths about migrant children at Ft. Sill

By: Kate Richey
July 22, 2014 // Updated: June 13, 2019
NOTE: This article was published in 2014 when Ft. Sill was first used to detain migrant children and has not been updated to reflect the detention of migrant children at Ft. Sill in 2019. As most Oklahomans have heard and… Read more [More...]

Read This: Kind of Kin

By: Carly Putnam
July 25, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post was written by OK Policy intern Carly Putnam. Carly is an undergraduate at the University of Tulsa majoring in Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies. She can be found on Twitter at @CarlyPutnam. It’s rare to find a… Read more [More...]