Pirate's Cove

This is obviously causing a lot of barking from the moonbats

Gov. Stitt acts on pending immigration bills as lawmakers squabble over ending legislative session

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stit issued an executive order Wednesday mandating immigration enforcement checks of federal welfare applicants. The move comes amid legislative Republican infighting, as lawmakers eye the end of session.

Senate Pro Temp Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, unofficially ended the legislative session for his chamber early, saying senators’ work is largely done.

Still left incomplete: a pair of bills by House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, requiring state agencies to check for the immigration status of federal welfare applicants and report those in the country without permission to immigration authorities.

That left Hilbert frustrated and confused, because just the day before both chambers agreed to end next week.

Republicans can be their own worst enemies. Can you imagine Democrats not forcing through a bill that does the opposite of Stitt’s order?

The ultimate fate of the bills may not matter. Stitt’s executive order directs “the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) to utilize the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to verify the legal status of applicants for programs including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Medicaid.”

It’s interesting: if a foreign national has applied for U.S. citizenship and is going through the process here in the U.S. they are barred from taking government programs like welfare, SNAP, Medicaid, and more. They have to prove they can pay for their own lives throughout the process. But, if you are an illegal, (fake) asylum seeker, or visa holder the government seems fine with spending that money, which could have gone to underserved Americans (plus, of course, there’s all the fraud, waste, and graft in these systems).