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Where have the immigrants gone? – Oklahoma law targeting illegal workers had some unforeseen results

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“The splintered trees, downed branches and piles of wood still littering nearly every neighborhood of this sprawling city two months after a devastating ice storm stand as a testament to something more than the ferocity of nature.

The debris is also a sign of the effectiveness ofOklahoma’s new law intended to drive illegal immigrants out of the state — the strictest such statute in the nation.

The branches are still here, many of the law’s critics say, because the undocumented workers who would have cleaned them up are not.”*

*From: www.chicagotribune.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

Posted on: February 11th, 2008
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Immigration, Top Stories
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