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Steve Thomas, social worker II in the agency’s Oklahoma County Rockwell office, testified before members of Oklahoma House of Representatives’ Revenue and Taxation Committee during an interim study on state immigration reform Tuesday. “There’s got to be an incentive not to come (to the United States) … we’re not doing anything about it,” said Thomas, who is up for retirement in November from the department. “We need to ask for identity, we need to ask for citizenship. ” Thomas said he reviews the eligibility requirements to determine if a person qualifies to a few programs, including food stamps. He said for food stamps the person must be a citizen or an alien who has lived in the state at least five years. He looks at the income level and citizenship status of those coming into the agency, but he does not question the answers. “If they want to say they’re citizens we go with it,” he said. Thomas works as a social worker II, which he said “means I’ve been there a long time and haven’t been promoted.” He told legislators he was put in front of a civil rights board that told him he had scared a person by revealing the reporting requirements for illegal aliens and that was deterring the person from seeking assistance. Thomas said by law he is supposed to submit a memo to the state office with information on possible illegal immigrants and the state office can then determine whether or not to report the case to the feds. “There are no workers sending memos,” he said. “Illegal immigrants are not eligible for public assistance,” according to a statement from the Department of Human Services, which goes on to say illegal immigrants “know they are not eligible and rarely apply.” Thomas was one of several people who testified at Tuesday’s interim study. Jack Martin, special projects director for the non-profit agency Federation for American Immigration Reform, urged legislators to pass legislation that turns off jobs to people here illegally. It would be a “Field of Dreams in reverse. Turn off the jobs, then they won’t come,” he said. State Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, conducted the study and said he will reintroduce a bill to penalize businesses that hire undocumented workers. “The second that I do so, you are going to hear a cry in the business community,” because they think it will take too much time to verify citizenship, he said. Martin said there is a computer program companies can use that can detect whether a person is legal in the country. He said it takes a matter of minutes to enter the information into the system and may take a day or two to receive the results. Martin estimates there were about 83,000 illegal aliens in Oklahoma in 2005 who cost the state about $207 million in annual public education, emergency medical and incarceration costs. Education makes up the biggest portion of the pie, with an estimated $161.1 million of the $207 million. He estimates there are about 10,325 illegal alien students and about 14,455 U.S.-born children of illegal aliens in Oklahoma public schools in 2004. “No one knows how many illegal aliens there are,” Martin said. According to DHS policy, workers are required to report if a person admits illegal aliens are present in the household and there are documents that appear to be forged or the person presents a formal order of deportation or removal. Terry Bryce, chief of staff for the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program through the Oklahoma State Department of Health, also testified for the study. He said employees in the program do not track the citizenship status of those who come in because the only criterion is residency. The program is funded 100 percent by the federal government and they hand down the laws, he said. Bryce did say not having the programs for residents would be detrimental. “It would make it very difficult for those individuals to live a healthy lifestyle,” he said. Patti Davis, executive vice president of the Oklahoma Hospital Association, expressed a similar sentiment related to treating any patient that comes into a hospital. She said hospitals are bound by many state and federal laws where they cannot turn away patients and by federal law it is impossible to know a person’s citizenship status. “We believe our staff are health givers, not INS enforcers,” she said. Oklahoma hospitals provided about $515 million in care in 2005 to uninsured or underinsured patients and did not get compensated. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 freed up about $250 million per year in reimbursements for fiscal years 2005 to 2008 for hospitals and ambulance services, but Davis said it required a verification of citizenship status to receive any reimbursements. As for Thomas, he believes undocumented individuals seeking DHS programs have a right to know they can be reported to the federal immigration authorities and he wants human services personnel to follow the law. “I’m coming forth now because it’s wrong, it’s illegal,” he said. Jaclyn Houghton is CNHI News Service Oklahoma reporter. Resolved Question: do you know what the 2005 Stella Awards are?? 2005 Stella Awards! Time once again to review the winners of the Annual “Stella Awards.” The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United State s Here are this year’s winners: 5th Place (tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson’s son. 5th Place (tie): 5th Place (tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was 4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500. and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor’s beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 2ndPlace: 1st Place: This year’s runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000. plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete idiots around.
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Steve Thomas, social worker II in the agency’s Oklahoma County Rockwell office, testified before members of Oklahoma House of Representatives’ Revenue and Taxation Committee during an interim study on state immigration reform Tuesday. “There’s got to be an incentive not to come (to the United States) … we’re not doing anything about it,” said Thomas, who is up for retirement in November from the department. “We need to ask for identity, we need to ask for citizenship. ” Thomas said he reviews the eligibility requirements to determine if a person qualifies to a few programs, including food stamps. He said for food stamps the person must be a citizen or an alien who has lived in the state at least five years. He looks at the income level and citizenship status of those coming into the agency, but he does not question the answers. “If they want to say they’re citizens we go with it,” he said. Thomas works as a social worker II, which he said “means I’ve been there a long time and haven’t been promoted.” He told legislators he was put in front of a civil rights board that told him he had scared a person by revealing the reporting requirements for illegal aliens and that was deterring the person from seeking assistance. Thomas said by law he is supposed to submit a memo to the state office with information on possible illegal immigrants and the state office can then determine whether or not to report the case to the feds. “There are no workers sending memos,” he said. “Illegal immigrants are not eligible for public assistance,” according to a statement from the Department of Human Services, which goes on to say illegal immigrants “know they are not eligible and rarely apply.” Thomas was one of several people who testified at Tuesday’s interim study. Jack Martin, special projects director for the non-profit agency Federation for American Immigration Reform, urged legislators to pass legislation that turns off jobs to people here illegally. It would be a “Field of Dreams in reverse. Turn off the jobs, then they won’t come,” he said. State Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, conducted the study and said he will reintroduce a bill to penalize businesses that hire undocumented workers. “The second that I do so, you are going to hear a cry in the business community,” because they think it will take too much time to verify citizenship, he said. Martin said there is a computer program companies can use that can detect whether a person is legal in the country. He said it takes a matter of minutes to enter the information into the system and may take a day or two to receive the results. Martin estimates there were about 83,000 illegal aliens in Oklahoma in 2005 who cost the state about $207 million in annual public education, emergency medical and incarceration costs. Education makes up the biggest portion of the pie, with an estimated $161.1 million of the $207 million. He estimates there are about 10,325 illegal alien students and about 14,455 U.S.-born children of illegal aliens in Oklahoma public schools in 2004. “No one knows how many illegal aliens there are,” Martin said. According to DHS policy, workers are required to report if a person admits illegal aliens are present in the household and there are documents that appear to be forged or the person presents a formal order of deportation or removal. Terry Bryce, chief of staff for the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program through the Oklahoma State Department of Health, also testified for the study. He said employees in the program do not track the citizenship status of those who come in because the only criterion is residency. The program is funded 100 percent by the federal government and they hand down the laws, he said. Bryce did say not having the programs for residents would be detrimental. “It would make it very difficult for those individuals to live a healthy lifestyle,” he said. Patti Davis, executive vice president of the Oklahoma Hospital Association, expressed a similar sentiment related to treating any patient that comes into a hospital. She said hospitals are bound by many state and federal laws where they cannot turn away patients and by federal law it is impossible to know a person’s citizenship status. “We believe our staff are health givers, not INS enforcers,” she said. Oklahoma hospitals provided about $515 million in care in 2005 to uninsured or underinsured patients and did not get compensated. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 freed up about $250 million per year in reimbursements for fiscal years 2005 to 2008 for hospitals and ambulance services, but Davis said it required a verification of citizenship status to receive any reimbursements. As for Thomas, he believes undocumented individuals seeking DHS programs have a right to know they can be reported to the federal immigration authorities and he wants human services personnel to follow the law. “I’m coming forth now because it’s wrong, it’s illegal,” he said. Jaclyn Houghton is CNHI News Service Oklahoma reporter. Resolved Question: How Can 50 States be wrong? Somewhere along the way, the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court have misinterpreted the U.S. Constitution. How could fifty States be wrong? THIS IS VERY INTERESTING! Be sure to read the last two paragraphs. America’s founders did not intend for there to be a separation of God and state, as shown by the fact that all 50 states acknowledge God in their state constitutions: Alabama 1901, Preamble. We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, one is faced with the prospect that maybe, just maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong! “Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” –William Penn
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