Thread: W VA: Delegate wants to head off immigration problems

Delegate wants to head off immigration problems
By Mannix Porterfield
THE REGISTER-HERALD (BECKLEY, W.V.)

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— Now that Oklahoma has clamped down on them with a tough new law, does it mean hordes of illegal immigrants might start pouring into the hills of West Virginia?

Delegate Rick Moye, D-Raleigh, sees that as a definite possibility, based on his conversations with officials in other states.

Oklahoma took measures to deny illegals a number of public benefits, raising fears by officials elsewhere that they might seek safer pastures in their regions, even the Mountain State.

“I kept hearing that throughout the day,â€

Now that Oklahoma has clamped down on them with a tough new law, does it mean hordes of illegal immigrants might start pouring into the hills of West Virginia?

WV had better open their eyes and see that the illegals are already there. I have a friend who went to a class reunion last August in WV. She said that at the motel (Comfort Inn) where she stayed for the weekend was full of illegals with out-of-state license plates on what appeared to be work trucks. She said that she was shocked when she saw them setting up grills outside the motel, drinking beer and playing loud mexican music. She said that she complained to the motel office telling them that she would never stay at a Comfort Inn again.