With just days left in the legislative session, HB 1446 is the only immigration bill that remains alive out of several dozen introduced this session. Last week, the conference committee report for HB 1446 was introduced. Compared to the original…
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Immigration is back on the agenda in Oklahoma, four years after passage of HB 1804, a law intended to give the state new powers to stem illegal immigration. The issue is once again highly contentious, as Oklahoma wades further into…
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A collection of links concerning immigration issues in Oklahoma, research groups, and national reports.
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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a conference hosted by the Ford Foundation and Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth. The three-day meeting was the first annual gathering of a diverse group of representatives supported…
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Click here for OK Policy’s clear and concise overview of the four remaining bills still pending before the 53rd Legislature as of April 6, 2011. The issue brief also provides special in-depth coverage of the central omnibus bill, HB 1446,…
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In the spring of 2003, Saul Munoz* was a Tulsa high school senior thinking seriously about his future. Saul’s parents had moved the family to Oklahoma years earlier, leaving Mexico at a time of increasing violence and instability, and he…
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Guest
March 24, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Note: These remarks were originally delivered by Alice Blue upon receiving the Tulsa Coalition of Hispanic Organizations Annual Thanksgiving Award in November 2010. Alice is a Senior Planner with the Community Service Council of Tulsa.
I come to this gathering…
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State Question 751 passed last fall with 75 percent of voters agreeing to amend the state constitution to make English Oklahoma’s official language. The amendment, currently being challenged in district court, formally recognized English as the common language in which…
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David Blatt
January 22, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
No piece of legislation in Oklahoma in the past decade was more controversial or contentious than HB 1804. Passed in 2007, HB 1804 – officially designated the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Act – enacted a series of restrictions intended to…
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By:
David Blatt
October 1, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
It is widely known that minorities in the United States earn considerably less than Whites – according to the most recent Census Bureau data, the median income for a White household in 2008 was 34.5 percent greater than for a…
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