Associated Press
Oaklahoma -- A growing influx of illegal immigrants is driving down wages and costing Oklahoma taxpayers millions of dollars, but the state can do something about it, experts testified Thursday before a joint House-Senate panel.
The hearing before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Commerce, Industry and Labor Committee is part of an interim study on the immigration issue requested by Sen. Tom Adelson, D-Tulsa, and Rep. Lance Cargill, R-Harrah.
Last year, Adelson introduced the Oklahoma Fair Employment Act, which would penalize employers who hire illegal aliens and give employees who are displaced because of those hirings legal status to sue. The proposal won committee approval but the Senate did not act on it.
Posted by Richard at November 11, 2005