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Oklahoma’s Republican governor wants to help import low-wage migrants for local work that would otherwise provide decent wages and salaries needed by Oklahomans and their children.Thursday on Twitter, just before Labor Day weekend, after a state-funded task force recommended the state legislature pass legislation to help employers hire migrants instead of Americans:
The absence of a labor shortage is proved by slow wage gains in Oklahoma. Only “two counties had rates of wage gains above the national rate of 3.2 percent … Average weekly wages in the three largest counties in Oklahoma were below the national average of $1,332 in the second quarter of 2023,” When he was running for election in 2018, Stitt’s company came under sharp criticism.
Task force member and Mexican Consul Edurne Pineda says the recommendations could make a difference. “To continue working with immigrants and to continue building up public policy and recommendations to the different authorities in the state to address the immigration reality in the best way possible,” Pineda said.expanding access to occupational licenses to non-citizens can provide pathways to students with DACA status otherwise known as “Dreamers.
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