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Vol. 71/No. 44      November 26, 2007

 
Workers in Oklahoma rally
against anti-immigrant law
(front page)
 
BY STEVE WARSHELL  
HOUSTON—More than 500 people, many of them Mexican-born workers, rallied November 2 at the Oklahoma state capitol in Oklahoma City, chanting “Justicia, Justicia” and other slogans in Spanish to protest the state’s sweeping new anti-immigrant law.

The law makes it a crime to transport, harbor, hide, rent housing to, or employ undocumented immigrants. It also gives state police the powers of immigration cops, and requires local and state cops and county jails to verify legal status. The law also terminates, in most cases, government subsidies such as health care and welfare for those who cannot prove legal status.

Miguel Rivera, president of the Oklahoma immigrant rights coalition Conlamic, told protesters at the rally that already the first arrest under the law had been made, with a woman charged for giving a ride to her boyfriend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who allegedly lacks residency documents. Rivera said some immigrants have already been evicted from their apartments by landlords afraid of being in violation of the new law.  
 
 
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