TULSA Okla.
Reports that Hispanic children are leaving Tulsa Public Schools indicates that Oklahoma’s tough new immigration law is working, according to the law’s authors.
“The whole purpose of the law was to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in Oklahoma because it is costing taxpayers a lot of money to educate them,” said Sen. James Williamson, R-Tulsa, the measure’s Senate author.
“Obviously, those same people are the ones that will no longer be lining up in the emergency rooms,” Williamson said. “If we are reducing the cost, a lot of my constituents will not be upset by that.”
