Oklahoma business leaders have a word of advice for Kansas lawmakers rushing to impose harsh new anti-immigrant penalties and mandates on businesses: Don’t go there.

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Posted on: January 31st, 2008
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““Be very, very cautious before going into this minefield,” Mike Seney, an Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce official, told the Lawrence Journal-World. “There is a reason for a federal pre-emption on this.”

Kansas lawmakers should heed the warnings.

Oklahoma’s crackdown on illegal immigrants — billed as the toughest in the nation — sounded good to many people when it was passed last year. The law makes it a felony to harbor, transport or hire an unauthorized immigrant.”*

*From: http://www.kansas.com
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